Five ambient soundscapes for sleep, calm, focus and flow. A synthesis engine that voices diatonic harmony in real time — generated live on your device, never the same twice.
Most apps in this space play back loops. Somaphi generates. A real-time synthesis engine layered with a diatonic harmonic sequencer voices every note live within your chosen key, scale and brainwave state. The result has structure and musical intention — never identical twice.
The pad synthesiser voices sixteen simultaneous notes through a natural bloom-to-decay lifecycle. The binaural oscillator runs at the precise frequency the mode is designed around. The ambient textures are DSP-generated, not recorded.
Each mode uses a specific musical scale chosen for its psychological character — Lydian for Drift, Dorian for Focus, Mixolydian for Flow. The sequencer voices diatonic chords from those scales in real time. This isn't background noise. It's composition.
The Flux LFO — a native audio-thread oscillator built on incommensurate sine waves — drifts the pitch and stereo width continuously. It takes several hours to approach anything like a repeat. The sound stays alive.
Whether you need to slow down, restore, concentrate, or find your rhythm — there is a mode for where you are right now. Five complete sonic environments, each anchored to a specific frequency range, voiced in its own musical scale, and rendered through its own reverb space and ambient texture set.
The Delta range — below 4 Hz — is associated with deep sleep. A descending minor scale, stretched into a long, slow release.
The raised fourth gives Lydian its floating, unresolved quality — the exact feeling of drift between waking and sleep.
Major's overtone-rich clarity, slowed to Alpha tempo. The resting frequency of a quiet, awake mind.
Minor but grounded — Dorian's raised sixth gives it a determined character that sustains attention without agitation.
Major with a flattened seventh — expansive, forward-moving, slightly unpredictable. The harmony of momentum.
Unlock any key, any scale, extended chord voicings, plus 432 Hz tuning. Pro extends every mode beyond its fixed scale — choose from twelve chromatic roots and ten scales (Major, Natural Minor, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Harmonic Minor, Pentatonic, Minor Pentatonic, Whole Tone), select from a wider library of chord voicings to reshape the harmonic character of each mode, and switch the master tuning reference to 432 Hz for a warmer, more natural feel.
Four layers, working together. Each one is doing something real to the sound, and the sound is doing something to how the moment feels.
A binaural oscillator and the harmonic tempo of each mode are tuned to the Delta, Theta, Alpha, Beta and Gamma frequency ranges associated with sleep, drift, calm, focus and flow — inspired by entrainment research, used here as a compositional choice.
Somaphi runs a native C++ engine on your device. No streaming. No internet. No latency. Every sound rendered locally, in real time.
Three sequencer patterns — A, B and C — tuned per brainwave state, each with a distinct melodic character. Octave shifts and occasional chance notes keep them alive across long sessions. Symphony mode is fully generative: phrase and chord decisions made continuously by the engine, never repeating.
Twelve layered textures — Rain, Ocean, Fire, Bowl, Chimes and more — blend with the harmonic layer to build the full sonic space.
A note on the science. Frequency-based audio is an active and still-evolving research area; the effects vary person to person. Somaphi is designed to be a complementary tool — for rest, attention and creative practice — not a medical device or a substitute for professional care.
A chromatic keyboard tuned to the mode's active scale appears during every session. Play over the generative soundscape, improvise within the harmonic space, add your own voice to the composition — something no other generative wellness app currently offers.
The breath guide is built into every session. Set your inhale length — 3, 4, 5, 6 or 8 seconds — and the orb pulses with each cycle, inhale to hold to exhale, synchronised to the sound throughout.
Each is precisely timed and woven into the soundscape.
Studio Pro turns Somaphi into a composition tool. Set any root note, any scale — Major, Dorian, Lydian, Whole Tone, Pentatonic and more. Tune to 432 Hz. Shape the reverb, the voice envelope, the stereo field. Then record your session and export it as lossless WAV, AIFF or M4A.
The result is yours. Copyright-free. Ready to use in a yoga class, a guided meditation, a therapy session, a podcast, a film. No licence. No royalties. No attribution required.
No account. No subscription. Five modes free, forever. Studio when you want it — $12.99, once.
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