- Quick specs
- Price: Free to try (31-day trial); $13.00 to buy
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: January 28, 2005
- Total Downloads: 36,448
- Downloads last week: 54
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 8 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This nifty program provides a calming atmosphere by providing 10 soothing nature-based background sounds you can play on your PC. Since it doesn't do anything else beyond its main job, Natural Ambience's interface is simple to understand, offering four timer presets, a volume slider, an Options icon, and a list of sound effects. Sounds include a waterfall, a thunderstorm, gently rolling waves, rain, and a heartbeat. We found all sound effects to be both realistic and relaxing, although the indian-chant setting actually frayed our nerves instead of mellowing them. It would be nice if the application let you tweak the speed of the sound effects; for instance, we thought the water in the Tranquil Stream setting flowed too fast to be entirely calming. Clicking the Options button lets you enable the application's bundled background music or add your own music files. We suggest you avoid the former, which ruins the overall atmosphere with cheesy MIDI-based tunes. All told, Natural Ambience makes a good tool for the stressed-out and sleep deprived, although filmmakers and musicians looking for basic sound effects might find it handy as well.Publisher's description
From www.bio-health.com.au :Natural Ambience turns your PC into a sound-therapy machine that recreates ten nature soundscapes with optional background music. It operates in the background allowing you to work while receiving the soothing benefits of nature's soundscapes. You also can include your own music files for background music. Nature soundscapes contain natural white noise that relaxes the brain and masks out unwanted background sounds, such as traffic, neighbors, and office noise.
Version 1.5 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 3.8 stars out of 8 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Natural Ambience 1.5
Pros: In a world that is increasingly becoming filled with stressful sounds and noises people everywhere are discovering the Healing benefits of sound therapy, just look in your local department store where you will find large selections of Sound Machines that recreate Nature Soundscapes . The problem with some of these machines is that the quality of the sound is usually poor due to the fact that they are cheaply made, whereas your standard PC sound card is capable of CD quality audio. Natural Ambience takes advantage of this fact to dynamically recreate high quality Nature Soundscapes on any standard PC that has a soundcard.
Cons: Sorry, i dont experienced anything.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Natural Ambience 1.5
Pros: Nada
Cons: The program is slow and pretty much useless. The sound quality is poor and there are only 10 sounds? In addition, when I was surfing on their site my F-Secure firewall alert me for a html exploit that came from that page. After checking their website with site advisor here is what I get:
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When we tested this site we found links to softpicks.net, which we found to be a distributor of downloads some people consider adware, spyware or other unwanted programs.
DO NOT INSTALL THIS THING!
It is very weird that the editor at download.com gave it 4/5. Why?
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Natural Ambience 1.5
"I bought this and then found a better free one :("
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Version: Natural Ambience 1.5
Pros: the sounds are so PREFECT! So RELAXING! This product is WELL WORTH IT! I LOVE IT!
Cons: NONE!
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Version: Natural Ambience 1.5
Pros: Very soothing and relaxing.Takes the bore
out of being on the internet for long periods of time.Easy to do your work with.One of the best programs on downloads.com.
Cons: I think the entire program is great.Well thought and very rewarding.
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