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Ocean Drift

Three wave voices on 12, 17 and 8-second cycles drifting out of phase in a large reverb

Preview plays right here. The generator adds a sleep timer, full controls, and WAV export.

About This Sound

Ocean Drift is a shoreline where the waves never fall into a pattern: a mid-sized wave breaking slightly to the left, a bigger, slower one to the right, and a quick, light one in the centre, all in a large space. Because the three cycles have different lengths, the sea keeps changing for many minutes before it repeats.

Three voices run together. A 3.8 color voice panned left cycles every twelve and a half seconds, a full-brown voice panned right every seventeen seconds, and a 3.5 voice in the centre every eight seconds or so, each with its own attack and release. A large reverb at 30 percent blends them, and a fourth voice is present but muted.

It is the preset to try when a single looping wave starts to feel mechanical. Waves Loop is one of these voices on its own, and Ocean Waves in the nature category is brighter and uses a pulse rather than extra voices for its added motion.

Best Used For

Try this: Enable the muted fourth voice at a low volume and set its color to 2.5 for a hint of foam on the surface.

Technical Details

Voices
3 independent layers
Voice 1
Brown (3.8), 30% left, 12.5s cycle
Voice 2
Brown (4), 40% right, 17.0s cycle
Voice 3
Pink (3.5), center, 8.3s cycle
Reverb
30% mix, large room