Free File: Atmosphere Lite
      
Bring the sounds of nature to your desktop.
 
By Chet Canlas

Music can soothe the soul. But what happens when the tunes on the radio drive you nuts? You know... Britney, Justin, Enrique, and J-Lo played over and over again. Sometimes I'd rather hear my dentist's drill than these pop rotations. Looking for relief, I went to the Internet and found a tranquil free file called Atmosphere Lite. 

With presets such as jungle, meadow, gentle sea, and tropical, Atmosphere Lite's free program will calm the inner beast of your desktop with sounds of nature. Vectormedia's basic package includes sounds from crickets, puppies, birds, and my favorite Costa Rican vacation reminder -- frogs. Those of you who like farm animals are not left out. Barn owl, sheep, and cow samples are also included. After setting the background sound to say, waterfall or woodlands, you can randomly add ship horns, birds, thunder, and other authentic natural audio to your customized composition. 

Now that you're completely relaxed, you can save your creation as a WAV file for future enjoyment. While you're at your desk, set Atmosphere Lite's alarm clock to gently wake you after your breaks. So now that you're ready to quit your yoga and anger management classes, consider paying a small fee for the upgrade and get even more soundscapes and features. Nature never sounded so good. 

Originally aired March 15, 2004
Modified March 9, 2004 
 
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Atmosphere Nature Sound Generator (Shareware)
Atmosphere generates nature sounds ( or any other soundscapes ) on your PC to help you relax. Atmosphere is also a great tool for creating sound effects for video productions You can record the output straight to MP3 or .wav and it looks great too.

What is Atmosphere?   
 
Atmosphere is our flagship product and serves many purposes for both home and business users. Atmosphere generates natural sounds and other audio environments on your PC and lets you listen to them in realtime or record to CD or Tape.
 
Atmosphere comes with twelve nature sound presets including Storm, Downpour, Tropical, Woodland, Autumn, Fireside and Six others. 
You can easily configure your own soundscapes from the background and the random sounds supplied. It takes minutes to configure your soundscape. You can then either play this soundscape in realtime, save it to listen to at another time, or record it to wav or mp3 using the inbuilt recording console, ready to be burnt to CD. There is even an alarm function and sleep timer incase you want to doze at your desk while a brook bubbles on its merry way, or the rain patters on a tin roof.

Atmosphere creates extremely authentic sounds, , and you will never hear exactly the same sequence twice. Have you ever bought a relaxing sound of nature CD, only to find that after a few listens, you know exactly what's coming next? You'll never have that problem again.

You are not just limited to nature sounds scenarios though. Perhaps the best feature of Atmosphere Deluxe is the ability to expand Atmosphere's sound banks using add-on scenarios. You can create all types of soundscapes. Just think of a favorite place, choose a wallpaper, and decide which random and background sounds you would like. If you don't feel like creating your own scenarios We have more than twenty free pre-configured scenarios in the Deluxe Users Area . Some of these are relaxing nature sounds scenarios such as Autumn walk and Tropical Day. Others such as San Fransisco park, Chicago city, and Autumn City recreate the hustle and bustle of citylife.
Each add-on scenario contains new sounds and wallpaper not found in the downloadble version.

