How it's made

Composed by rules.
Synthesized as you listen.

StillTune does not play recordings. Every note is decided by StillTune's own composition engine and turned into sound on your device, in real time. There is no audio file behind it to copy, loop or license.

audio files, samples or field recordings
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audio files, samples or field recordings
synthesized live on your device
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synthesized live on your device
no loop points; it keeps composing
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no loop points; it keeps composing
every session is a different performance
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every session is a different performance
From recipe to sound

What happens when you press play

  1. 1Recipe

    Sound DNA and Soundscapes

    A sound starts as a small set of numbers: scale, instruments, brightness, space, density. Official Soundscapes are versioned recipes written and tuned by the StillTune team, delivered signed so the app can verify them.

  2. 2Composition

    The score conductor

    StillTune’s composition engine turns a Soundscape into music one phrase at a time, following rules the team wrote: an intro, development, answers, resolutions and breaths, over a moving harmony. Each device gets its own random seed, so the music is new every time.

  3. 3Synthesis

    The on-device engine

    Your phone or browser performs those phrases in real time. It uses oscillators for pads and drones, modal resonators for struck instruments like bells, glass and handpan, and filtered noise for rain, wind, waves and fire.

  4. 4Output

    Space and master

    The reverb’s impulse response is generated, not captured in a real room. A gentle master chain (filters and a limiter) keeps the level calm and even before it reaches your speakers.

Because the music is composed while it plays, two sessions of the same Soundscape feel alike, but the actual notes, their timing and their voicing are different every time. No two recordings of StillTune are identical, and there is no master track.

Plainly

What StillTune is not

Not samples

No instrument notes, loops or one-shots were recorded and played back.

Not field recordings

The rain, the waves and the café are synthesized from noise, not recorded outdoors.

Not a track library

There is no catalogue of songs behind the app, and nothing is streamed as audio.

Not a trained AI model

The engine is rules and signal processing written by StillTune. It was not trained on anyone’s music.

Provenance

Every published recording has a paper trail

When StillTune publishes audio on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok or elsewhere, each recording is saved with a render manifest: a record created at the moment of recording.

  • The Soundscape, its version and the exact recipe that produced it
  • When it was recorded, and for how long
  • A SHA-256 hash that ties the record to that exact audio file
  • A second-by-second loudness profile, unique to each take

If a StillTune recording is ever claimed by someone else, this record shows that StillTune generated it, when it was made and from what.

stilltune-sleep-…-6h.manifest.jsonexample
{
  "format": "stilltune.render-manifest/1",
  "id": "2dae7a4f-…",
  "recording": {
    "startedAt": "2026-09-25T15:40:12.004Z",
    "recordedSeconds": 21600,
    "sampleRate": 48000,
    "files": ["stilltune-sleep-20260925-1540-6h.wav"],
    "pcmSha256": "a3fb22130d1554a0…"
  },
  "source": {
    "mode": "sleep",
    "profile": { "profileId": "sleep-warm-hush", "version": 26 },
    "dna": { "tonal": …, "textures": …, "space": … }
  },
  "loudness": { "stepSeconds": 1, "rmsDbfs": [-25.6, -26.3, …] }
}
Copyright

Original to StillTune

Audio generated by StillTune is original to StillTune. We do not register our generated audio with YouTube Content ID or similar automated fingerprint-matching systems. Ambient sound is especially prone to false matches, and we do not want StillTune audio to be used to claim other people's work.

StillTune is licensed for personal listening under our terms. Licensing for creators is planned. If you believe a StillTune recording was claimed wrongly, or that StillTune content infringes your rights, see our copyright policy or email [email protected].

Hear it for yourself

It takes one tap, and no two sessions are the same.