First of all, congrats! This looks great. As someone that plays music and has analog synths, I was impressed you even included a tweakable synth!
One thing I was wondering is why the exhale is instructed to be out of the mouth. Does it have to do with needing the airflow to travel past the mic, or is there a medical reason for it? I have a long standing daily Buddhist meditation practice and also have a somewhat intensive yoga practice, and all the pranayama instructions I’ve ever gotten from teachers has been full on nasal breathing. I find it pretty uncomfortable and unnatural to use a mouth exhalation. Also my teachers have always taught me to make the exhale as silent as possible. The only time I’ve been instructed to use a mouth breath is in shitali pranayama, but that’s an inhale, and with lion’s breath.
Thanks - really glad you appreciate the synth! I had a great time building out the synths and sequencers
Exactly, so the inhalation is in through the nose and out through the mouth for the app partly to detect the exhalation, but also generally peak flow (which is a bit like lion's breath) and lung function measurements are measured by breathing through the mouth. It would also be great to have nasal breathing detected at some point..
One thing I was wondering is why the exhale is instructed to be out of the mouth. Does it have to do with needing the airflow to travel past the mic, or is there a medical reason for it? I have a long standing daily Buddhist meditation practice and also have a somewhat intensive yoga practice, and all the pranayama instructions I’ve ever gotten from teachers has been full on nasal breathing. I find it pretty uncomfortable and unnatural to use a mouth exhalation. Also my teachers have always taught me to make the exhale as silent as possible. The only time I’ve been instructed to use a mouth breath is in shitali pranayama, but that’s an inhale, and with lion’s breath.
Anyway, again, it looks great — congrats!