I am looking for an alarm clock that will wake me up with gradual noise and I want to be able to use the switch on the side to turn off all noise so that JUST the alarm sounds. If I leave the noise on, the I hear all the notifications iN the middle of the night. From the description, it sounds like Night stand central requires you to keep your other noises on at night so if I receive an email, I will wake up when it is announced. As is obvious, I am a light sleeper.