Sound Healing Room

Every instrument sits in the photo where you see it. On a computer, rest the mouse on one to read its name and how to play it. A short tap plays it and opens its panel. Holding does the playing gesture, like making a bowl sing or rolling the gong.

Tap the window to let some wind in, and tap it again to close it. Tap an empty part of the room to close a panel.

• BowlsTwelve Tibetan singing bowls. Tap to play, hold to make a bowl sing.
• CrystalsCrystal singing bowls. Tap to play, hold to make one sing.
• HandpanTap to play a note.
• GongTap to strike, hold to roll.
• DidgeridooOpen its panel to play the drone. A tap on the photo opens it without a sound.
• ForksEight tuning forks. Tap to strike one.
• ChimesSweep across the tubes.
• HarpTap to play, hold and slide across the strings.
• MonochordTap to strum. Open its panel for the E-BOW drone.

Each instrument has its own panel. It slides up from the bottom with the instrument, a short line on how to play it, and its controls.

• DroneA sustained sound that keeps going while you play on top. Some instruments offer drone styles in the list under the buttons: RUB or WAH on the bowls, ONE or CHORD on the crystal bowls, WASH or FLUMI on the gong.
• MelodyThe instrument plays melodies on its own. Pick one in the MELODY list under the buttons. DRONE and MELODY run separately, so both can be on at once.
• StopFades that instrument out. It comes back as soon as you play it again.
• DefaultPuts the controls of that panel back where they started.
• ✕Closes the panel.
• SlidersAlong the bottom: the volume and the tone controls of that instrument, like MALLET, BREATH and RING on the bowls.

MELODY is on six instruments: the bowls, crystal bowls, handpan, tuning forks, chimes and harp. The gong, didgeridoo and monochord play DRONE only.

Each MELODY list starts with the melodies of that instrument, then the same seven shared melodies under SHARED: Rising Falling Pendulum Call and answer Lullaby Mantra Sparse

TipTry the same shared melody on two instruments, for example LULLABY on the harp and on the crystal bowls, with a drone underneath.

The forks panel has two boxes at the bottom. Its labels show each fork with its pitch in Hz.

• Musical sync offThe eight forks keep their classic pitches: OM 136.1, 396, 417, 432, 528, 639, 741 and 852 Hz.
• Musical sync onThe forks tune to the scale and key chosen at the top of the room, and each label shows its note and Hz. The fork drone follows the same key.
• Binaural +4HzEach fork sounds 4 Hz apart between your left and right ear. Wear headphones for this one, as the label says.
• DefaultTurns MUSICAL SYNC off again.

TipThe bowls and the gong have a MUSICAL SYNC box too. It softens the overtones that would clash with the scale of the room.

Hold the didgeridoo in its panel to play the drone, and slide along it to open and close the mouth. DRONE keeps it going on its own.

• PulseChoose how the drone moves: STEADY, DRIFT, BREATH or RANDOM.
• AttackHow the drone comes in, from a quick start to a slow swell of up to 5 seconds.
• ReleaseHow long the drone takes to fade when it stops, up to about 10 seconds.
• Sub, depth, speed, airShape the low end, the movement and the air of the drone. Move them while it plays and listen.

A sound bath plays the whole room on its own, from an opening gong to a quiet ending. Everything sits in the bar at the top.

• ▶ Start sound bathA gong opens the session and the instruments come in a few seconds later. Any DRONE or MELODY you switched on in a panel turns off.
• Length5, 10, 20, 30, 45 or 60 MIN, or ENDLESS. It stays fixed while the bath plays.
• ReadingShows the part of the session and the time, for example ARRIVAL · 00:04 / 20:00. The parts are Arrival, Deepening, Immersion, Release and Stillness.
• GongsA timed bath sounds a gong halfway and another at the end, then shows SESSION COMPLETE. ENDLESS keeps going until you stop it.
• StopFades everything out over a few seconds.
• Musical syncOFF plays every instrument with its natural sound. ON keeps the whole bath in one scale: the handpan sings, the harp joins and the instruments take turns.
• ScaleHEALING · 432 HZ, SOLFEGGIO · 528, CELTIC · DORIAN, ANCESTRAL · PENTATONIC, MYSTIC · HIRAJOSHI, DESERT · HIJAZ, EARTH · MAJOR PENTATONIC or WATER · KOSHI.
• KeyAUTO, or any of the twelve keys from C to B.

TipYou can change the scale, the key or MUSICAL SYNC while a bath plays. The room moves to the new setting smoothly, at the same point of the session.

INSTRUMENTS, at the right of the top bar, opens the mixer for the whole room.

• Tap a nameTurns that instrument on or off in sound baths. It still plays when you tap it by hand.
• SlideSets its volume. Each slider is the same as the VOLUME in that instrument panel.
• DroneThe steady tone under every sound bath.
• WindOpens or closes the window and sets how loud the wind is.
• DefaultPuts every level back.

TipWhen something is switched off, the button shows a count next to INSTRUMENTS, so you can tell at a glance that the mix is not complete.

SOUND opens a small drawer with the space of the room and the bed under the sound bath. VOLUME, next to it, is the master volume.

• RoomHow much the room echoes.
• Drone on · levelSwitches the steady tone under every sound bath on or off, and sets its level.
• SeedEvery sound bath grows from a six digit number. NEW SEED EACH SESSION gives you a new one each time. Tap it to lock the seed (SEED LOCKED · SAME SESSION), or type your own number.

TipThe room remembers your key, MUSICAL SYNC, the mixer and the volume in this browser, so it opens the way you left it.

Play the room by hand and record it. Then the room plays your session back on its own, in the scale and key you choose, for the length set in the bar.

• ● Record a sessionStarts recording what you play by hand: strikes, rubs, and any DRONE or MELODY you switch on. The button turns into ■ SAVE SESSION with the time.
• ■ Save sessionKeeps it as SESSION 1, SESSION 2 and so on, with its length, the number of notes and the scale it was recorded in.
• ▶ PlayPlays your session back in the scale and key chosen now. It repeats with small changes until the length in the bar runs out. With ENDLESS it keeps going until you stop it.
• Save fileDownloads the session as a small .json file.
• ✕Deletes that session.

TipSessions live in this browser only, up to 12, and the oldest goes first. They are not saved to your account.

REC records everything you hear into a WAV file: your hands, the sound bath, the drone and the room. It is part of the full room.

• ● RecStarts recording, and the button shows the time. Press it again to stop.
• RecordingsAppears after your first take, with a count. Each take has a player, DOWNLOAD WAV and DELETE.
• The fileWAV, 16 bit stereo, named after the room, the scale, the key and the date. The level does not depend on the VOLUME slider.
• LengthEach take stops on its own at 30 minutes.

TipEvery take is also saved to your library, under Your Recordings. If you close the tab with a take you have not downloaded, the room asks first.

On a computer, the keys play the instrument whose panel is open.

The room works on a phone too. The controls stack in rows at the top and the panels fill the bottom of the screen.

• Top rowsSTART SOUND BATH and MUSICAL SYNC, then scale, key and length, then VOLUME, REC, INSTRUMENTS, MY SESSIONS and SOUND.
• StopAppears while a sound bath plays.
• Instrument rowWhen the photo is cropped, the instrument names appear at the bottom. Tap one to play it and open its panel.
• SidewaysTurn your phone sideways to see the whole room.
• How to playIn a panel, HOW TO PLAY shows the help line and HIDE HELP folds it away.