Drift is the one StillTune mode built around not having a job. Every other mode sits behind a task: Focus behind work, Sleep winding toward unconsciousness, Relax bridging the two. Drift is tuned to sit in a room without asking anything of it, brighter than Sleep, darker than Focus, with bells rare enough to almost never interrupt. It's also the mode most people would just call ambient music, the genre this one is built to serve. The four Official Sound DNA presets below are the smallest set on the site, and that's intentional rather than an oversight. Drift is the mode most people end up detuning toward their own texture rather than picking a preset built for one specific purpose, so there's less reason to publish dozens of near-identical starting points.
That also makes this page a little different from the Focus, Sleep, Deep Sleep and Relax pages next to it: fewer presets, but each one covers more distinct ground rather than a dozen close variations on the same idea.
Dust & Sunlight and Empty Room both sit close to plain background noise: Dust & Sunlight pairs brown noise with a barely-there layer of wind, about as close to nothing as the site gets, while Empty Room drops the weather entirely and layers pink and brown noise together with nothing else, reading like an actual unoccupied room rather than outdoor air. No Horizon takes that same pink-and-brown pairing and opens the reverb wider and longer than anything else in the mode, for the most spacious-sounding preset here. White Veil goes the other direction tonally: white noise thinned down and layered under pink, the brightest and thinnest-sounding option in Drift. None of the four leans on a specific weather texture the way Sleep or Relax presets do, which is really the point. Drift is meant to be built rather than browsed, and every preset here doubles as a clean starting point for that.
Environmental psychologists Rachel and Stephen Kaplan had a name for what this mode is aiming at back in the 1980s: soft fascination, the quality that makes watching clouds or listening to a fountain restful rather than effortful, engaging enough to hold loose attention without ever demanding it. It's a large part of why ambient music works as a genre at all, and Drift is StillTune's version of it. The bell chance across these four presets sits around one in eight, lower than Relax's one in two and higher than Deep Sleep's near-silence, and the filter sweeps on a roughly forty-five-second cycle: slower than Focus's twenty-two-second pacing, faster than Deep Sleep's almost-static drift. The chord progression underneath cycles the same four voicings Sleep mode uses, just without Sleep's narrowing filter pulling everything down toward quiet, which is what keeps Drift moving without ever building toward anything in particular.
Every preset here runs live rather than from a file, so a Drift session can sit in the background for an entire workday or a long flight without repeating a section or needing a connection past the first load. If one of the four above is close but not quite right, open its Sound DNA recipe and adjust the bell chance, the noise mix or the reverb directly. That's how most people actually end up using this mode.