This ungodly mess that I concocted today is a first attempt at a patch to approximate the soothing sound of random ocean waves using pink noise. There are 5 separate wave patterns: a lower and higher pitched pair that hover around center, a left and right panned pair whose pitch and volume are controlled by [random] and [line], and then a background drone sound that adds depth and is mostly intended to fill in empty space when other waves recede simultaneously and would otherwise result in silence.

Upon listening to actual recordings of ocean sounds, I've decided that what it's missing is a trickling sound for when the waves recede. Not entirely sure how to go about that, but that's probably the next step to up the realism level.

All feedback welcome,

Joe

WaveSim.pd

Here's a fixed one with "right wave" working properly

WaveSim.pd

And here's yet another one with presets and with a nice GUI.

Enjoy!

Joe

WaveSim presets update.pd

@JP1288 Haha this is pretty cool! I really like 'high tide'. Just out of curiosity, did you have a specific reason for pink noise or did you just like the way it sounded?

@rjp9 Thanks! I compared both [noise~] and [pink~] to ocean sound recordings on youtube, and decided that [pink~] was the closer match, and therefore would be lower maintenance in terms of filtering. That's the only reason.