System Requirements

• Mac OS X v10.3.9 thru 10.5.x
  
• Quicktime v6 or higher
  
• Minimum 1024 x 768 pixel resolution display
  
• Speakers or headphones
  
• Best results will be achieved with a 700 MHz G4 or faster

SonicMood v4.9.1

SonicMood isn't pre-recorded music like you find on records and CDs

It’s more like “Mood Chimes,” notes which vary like chimes blown by the wind. The patterns never repeat and are gentle, soothing, and harmonious. There are 28 different sets of “chimes” using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others. Audio files of nature sounds are added to each of the 28 pre-defined Moods, plus you can edit them and add your own. You won’t find anything like this in conventional music. This is "Rhythmically Homogeneous" music!

The "iTunes-like" user interface makes using SonicMood a breeze! The lists of Moods are like iTune's song list, the Themes are similar to iTune's PlayLists.

Drag & drop allows for reordering of Moods, Themes, and Scenes. You can have "Shuffle" play where Moods are chosen and played at random. Use the space bar to pause/play, command-left and command-right arrow keys to move back and forward between Moods, command-up/command-down for volume, etc. Resize its window from small to large, or "Zoom" it to a very compact size.




If you don't like what you hear, it's easy to change. Just bring up the "Mood Info/Edit" window (press the button) and let your creativity take over!

SonicMood lets you adjust the sound as you wish. For each "Mood", you can select the musical instrument and the nature soundfiles, vary the note timing, select another musical scale or change key, create your own scale, and move the sounds around in the stereo soundfield. SonicMood provides for manual and dynamic sound motion.

Each Mood can include one or more soundfiles, recorded nature sounds to compliment the instrumental sounds. Choose nature soundfiles (rain, thunder, crickets, river, etc.) from the many provided (21 included with the SonicMood download, more in separate .zip files, see the "Sharing" page), or add your own recorded sounds. Any AIFF, MP3, MP4, etc. file can be played. The Soundfile sounds can be moved manually or dynamically in the soundfield, just like the musical instrument sounds. Ambient music never sounded so good!


SonicMood has a built-in MIDI recorder to record the instruments. Here's an example of a recording made of a lively SonicMood creation, Taiko Rhythms.mid (click to listen - see here for more).

To record both instruments and soundfiles, use a third-party application like RogueAmoeba's AudioHiJack Pro. You could add the resulting file to iTunes, copy to your iPod, or even include with some of your own compositions. See the FAQ for more information.

Drag & drop your favorite picture files (jpg, bmp, gif, tiff, png, photoshop, or pict), or a graphic off a web page, onto SonicMood's Scene window. You could run a slide show of them all while listening. Ambient sights to go with the ambient sounds..

Even display realistic-looking chimes which move to the sound, and "Mood Colors"which light up when notes sound. Make up your own "Moods" using 128 different instruments and custom soundfiles. Save and load sets of Moods - keep a set of "happy" Moods and a set of "thoughtful" Moods, or organize them in "Themes" (5 themes are pre-defined to get you started).

And SonicMood always remembers your control settings and menu selections.

What more can we say?

SonicMood is only $12.95. If you like it, and it's worked on your computer for a while, why not buy it? Click here to go to our purchase page and obtain a code to remove the 14 day limit, and the startup "nag" screen.