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SonicMood bathes you in gentle tones played by selected instruments to calm and relax you while you work. It’s like ‘Mood Chimes’, notes which sound as if produced by chimes blown by the wind. The patterns never repeat and are gentle, harmonious, and soothing.

There are 26 different sets of ‘chimes’ using different instruments, including bells, crystals, kalimbas, glockenspiels, violins, and many others. Audio files of nature sounds can be added to each mood. You can create your own moods or edit the 26 existing moods. You won’t find anything like this on a CD…

What’s New:
Version 4.7.6:

• Fixed a bug that caused a crash if the user tried to use “Create a Mood.” SonicMood would crash when the “Create” button was pressed.
• Made a minor cosmetic change to the MIDI window by combining the “elapsed time” settings and the countdown timer within one area of the window.
• Fixed a bug that caused the default value for Mood timer to be 1 second for the Mood created by “Create a Mood”.
• Made the “Create” button the default in the “Create a Mood” window.
• Made sure that Moods can only be added or “Created” if the “all Moods” Theme is selected and a Mood is highlighted.
• Fixed a small bug that allowed the user to delete ALL the Moods by doing a “select all” and deleting… Now at least one Mood must stay.
• Fixed a small issue where the highlighted Instrument row wasn’t centered in the Instruments list in the “Mood Info/Edit” window.
• Fixed a bug that kept the Tab key from working properly after the Mood name edit field was selected in the “Mood Info/Edit” window. Also fixed a bug that kept the spacebar from pausing the sound, and the arrow keys from working properly right after the Mood name was edited if the edit was ended by pressing the “enter” or “return” keys.
• Changed the labels on the play/pause time sliders (SoundFile page of the “Mood Info/Edit” window) from min/max to minimum/maximum.
• Increased the range of possible colors in the “Mood Colors” window.
• Increased the range of the “Sound Motion” time sliders on the “Sound Motion” page of the “Mood Info/Edit” window from 20 seconds to 30 seconds.
• Fixed a bug that sometimes left a white “ghost” around cleared “Color bars” in the “Colors” window. Occurred especially when changing the musical scale.
• Fixed (or worked around) a problem caused when an 8 bit per sample soundfile is played and we’re running on Intel with OS X 10.4.9 (don’t know about later versions of OS X yet…). The sound becomes “statically” or “noisy” and all the other soundfiles are affected and sound the same. The fix is to limit the soundfiles in the list to only those that are at least 16 bits per sample, if we’re running on Intel. All the soundfiles supplied with SonicMood are 16 bits so this is actually a very minor problem.
• Fixed a bug that kept proper slider settings from being set on entry to the Soundfiles page of the “Mood Info/Edit” if no soundfiles were checked.

Developer’s website: John Hall