Ambient sound mixer for Mac

The native Ember Noise Mac mixer with the Light Rail preset loaded, combining Train Modern, Train Wooden Carriage, Brown Noise, and Rings of Neptune around the glowing ember. — The full native Mac mixer with the Light Rail preset loaded.

Ember Noise is a native ambient sound mixer and white noise app for Mac, built directly with AppKit and SwiftUI. It presents the landscape iPad interface in a resizable Mac window and runs on the same Swift core as the iPhone and iPad apps.

Closing the mixer window leaves Ember Noise playing in the menu bar. The menu-bar popover gives you:

Play/pause and master volume.
Your preset list, one click to switch.
Stop-timer status at a glance.
Open Mixer to bring the full window back.

Launch at Login is off by default. The Dock Icon setting has three modes:

Always keeps Ember Noise in the Dock.
With Mixer (the default) shows the Dock icon only while a mixer window is open.
Never launches straight into the menu bar without opening the mixer.

macOS may ask you to approve Launch at Login in Login Items before it becomes active.

System playback controls

The media keys on your keyboard control playback, and the current preset appears in Now Playing. The Mac audio adapter handles output-device changes for the shared engine.

Receiving presets

After you activate Nearby Transfer once, the menu-bar app can receive presets from your iPhone or iPad while the mixer window is closed. See Send to Device.