Hypnofoc
Hypnofocflow by your own rules

Why

Hypnofoc helps you hold on to your train of thought while the world around you keeps moving and pulling at you. It’s a through-line for your hours, and your thoughts, mood and goals move along with it.

What I want it to be:

  • Soft, deep, pleasant continuous sounds I can combine at a tempo I set.

What it is not:

  • Not entertainment. Nothing happens in it — no story, no build-up, no genre.
  • No voices or sudden events — nothing that grabs your attention.
  • Nothing harsh, metallic or piercing.
  • No jazz, lo-fi, classical, piano or “relaxing” music.
  • Honest: no “neuro” tricks, just sound.

Does it work for you?

Hypnofoc is a prototype. I made it for myself, and I’m sharing it to find out whether it helps anyone else.

If it does — even with just these few sounds — I’d love to keep improving it in my free time.

Whether Hypnofoc grows into a public product depends on people who need it. If you’d like to support it, your help will go to AI tools and studio time — for higher-quality sounds and experiments.

Thank you for listening.

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Deep

124 BPM · F minor
Duration
Now playingpress play, the flow starts softly
Music
Nature
Effects
Under the hoodHow the flow is built: its rules and the softness ceiling

Rules

These rules are built into the engine. Settings can soften them but never break them.

  1. No vocalsThere are no voices in the flow: no words, no humming. The nature recordings have none either.
  2. No pauses or breaksLayers come in and fade out over 8–16 bars, which is 15–30 seconds. There is never silence inside the flow.
  3. Density changes slowlyOnly one layer comes in or leaves at a time, and no more often than the state allows: once every 16, 32 or 64 bars.
  4. Changes only at phrase boundariesA phrase is 8 bars. The conductor never changes anything mid-phrase.
  5. Anything that sticks out is tamedA shared compressor and limiter smooth out the peaks. Every sound has a soft attack, and the beat gently ducks the other layers instead of covering them.
  6. No sharp or artificial soundsOnly the beat, depth and space are synthesized: soft, low, with no hard onsets. Everything else is real nature recordings. The top end is held down by the softness ceiling: no cymbals, no hi-hats.
  7. No harsh harmoniesChords have no tritones. The harmony changes rarely and smoothly, and the bass holds the root.
Further right is softer: fewer high frequencies across the whole flow. Applies to every state. Most people never need to touch it.

About the sounds

The flow isn’t pre-recorded: the engine builds it right in your browser, by its rules, new every time. Only the beat, depth and space are synthesized.

Nature and effects are real recordings. Each one goes through the same rules: the calmest stretch, no sharp sounds, the same loudness as the others.