BW Generator

[Tom]

That's how it works. Single tones in each ear and the third sound in the middle of the head is the difference between the two. 108-100Hz is 8 Hz, an alhpa range frequency. So if you find that 108 Hz and 100 Hz are nice to listen to then yes, you can make your own files. What I don't know is if you can have multiple channels in both ears and more than one frequency difference. I don't know of anything that makes the commercial products special except for their choice of frequencies and durations.

[Goddog]

can someone please send it to my email too?
goddogmaster@hotmail.com

[What Tha Phak]

Tom, yes you're correct about the binaural frequency variations on the two hemispheres of the brain, you 'hear' the difference... or simply focus on the almost-subliminal sounds and tones.  Each ear could have multiple channels allowing different notes and vibrations in one speaker.  The concept, and intense research by Robert Monroe and his institute, was to correlate, or synchronize activity and betabolic potentials in both halves of the brain, hence inducing into much more of a relaxed, alert mind; its good for meditation because you concentrate fully, on it.  

Adam

[stephen~]

quote:Originally posted by Tom

Kelly Howell also says that MP3 versions of their tapes do not work. I can't tell the difference in the effects and there is nothing in the theory of how it works that explains the difference for me. They all just put two different frequencies in the left and right ears. I think MP3 compression can still result in a difference in frequency being kept.

MP3s should not work because they are compressed files, they are created by cutting out unwanted frequencies in the original file, that's how you are able to reduce a 30mb 3 minute song in a wav file to 3mb 3min file in an mp3 format.

These unwanted frequencies are the highs and lows that are largely inaudible, and/or not totally neccesary to the overall perception of the file as being the same as the original (in regards to music).

Binuaral beats are the difference between two seperate tones, but if the mp3 format has removed some frequencies, how can you be sure that the numbers still add up, as it were?

I think I'll do a little test to see if a simple BWGen wav file is altered by compressing it to mp3.

[stephen~]

God I must be bored ...Anyway, I converted two BWGen presets to wav, then  frequency analysed them in two seperate audio programs (wavelab and soundforge).

1 file was a simple delta beat I have been using for a few days now with a 50 and 51hz tone respectively. The other was a shortended version of mind awake, with frequencies around the 150hz mark.

Both files were converted to 128bit, 44100hz mp3 using standard  software (musicmatch jukebox).

When I analysed the frequencies I found that there were slight differences in both, but nothing drastic - the difference in my delta file went from 1hz to 0.9hz. The other file was very similar, even reducing them further in quality didn't seem to affect the frequency difference much.

It may be because they are very basic tones that they are not affected much by compression. I don't know what the Monroe stuff sounds like, maybe it is much more aurally complex and could be made ineffective by compression?

Anyway, it seems like you can compress the hell out of BWGen presets and they should work fine.

[manuel]

For those who are compresing it to mp3, choose 192kbps @ 44.1 khz, set at stereo NOT joint stereo, make sure it is constant  bit rate not variable  bit rate, since VBR goes up and down.

[Serenity1]

I'm having trouble uderstanding the process involved in burning any of the presets from the free BWG which I downloaded. I have read all the previous posts but they have mostly been dealing with mp3. I have Nero but it wont recognise the files so I downloaded winamp 2.9 and I copied a preset into Wave and winamp plays that but Nero wont recognise that either.It all soundsso easy![:I]
Apreciate some help.
Also: I don't want mp3 just regular cd audio.
If I need the code key could someone send me that too - PM[][]

[imogen]

Hi could someone please send it to me too
imogenloughran@msn.com

[StarGuitar]

What is this about Astral Pulse presets? Can someone stear me in their direction?

[stephen~]

I dont think downloaded presets will even play in the BWGen in the unregistered version?

However if you want to burn an audio cd using the free presets or your own,choose Play into Wav from the Wave menu. Then just burn it in nero or whatever in the usual way, create audio cd etc..

[Kiflarer]

please email a registration key for the bwgen to killingsephiroth@hotmail.com please

[jacob]

Hi,

Can someone please send it to me in my pm

[Nick]

StarGuitar,

The Astral Pulse has a file library with some presets:

http://www.astraldynamics.com/forums/file_library.asp?showmethecat=15

Very best,

[smilecollecter]

Does the bwgenerator work for going out-of-body?  If not, what does it do?  I've used it and so far it hasn't helped, at least not while I was listening to it.  It seems it is a distraction.

[Links Shadow]

Hello everyone, would anyone care to help me out with the registration keycode?  Any help would be much appreciated.

[manuel]

quote:Originally posted by beav31is

As a software programmer, I feel it is my duty to give any of you who crack BWGEN or get around its registration (including me) a big bonk YOU for ripping them off. Its hard to pay when its available for free. We all have our excuses. But if you were going to pay if it was the only way to get the program, you should do it. I'll try to do that if I use it enough.

<---- is being a hypocrite

bonk me? sorry mate, i dont bend that way.

[Serenity1]

Q: Can I listen to the "wave" file once writen to a rw-cd?
Do I have only one option - to burn as an audio. This makes it impossible for me as I dont have the memory to save a wave file then burn as an audio.Unless its possible to bur while playing from the BWG?[:I]
Also someone may have come across this problem too - I cannot isolate the windows media player to play through the headphones only plays through the PC speakers.
I'm using Windows95.
Appreciate any help with this. []

[dion]

I would desperately like to know the registration key also. my email is dion.aitken@telecom.co.nz
I would greatly appriciate being able to use BWGen if it does what everyone sayse it does.

[stephen~]

Yes you can listen to the Wav file burnt onto CD-R or CD-RW, if that's what you want to do on yours or anyone else's computer.

But if you want to listen to it on a normal audio cd player, you'll have to burn it as an audio cd onto a CD-R, as most cd players, well old ones for sure, won't play an audio CD-RW.

If disk space is small then when you go to 'play into wav' dialogue, uncheck the box the says Default Cd settings.

Then you can do a couple of things. You can change the Bit Rate from 16bit to 8bit. This will halve the file size, but also introduce a little bit of noise and the sound quality will be detectably poorer.

The other thing you can do is adjust the sample rate. It should say 44100 samples per second. If you alter that figure to 22050 you will again make the Wav file half the size, but the quality will remain almost as good as before. If disk space is really tight, you can adjust it even lower, to any number you choose infact. Halving it again to 11025 will make it a quarter the original size, but the more you reduce it the lower the qaulity will be.

I'd stick to 16bit, 22050. That makes a 10 minute Wav file about 50mb in size.

Do you have headphones attached to the back of your PC? Without knowing your particular setup it is hard to say. But if you right click the speaker icon in the tray beneath the clock in the right hand corner of your screen and choose Open Volume Controls, you should get an option for PC Speaker or Line out with a little 'Mute' check box. Check that and your speakers should fall silent.

[Serenity1]

Thanks Stephen,
I'll be trying the sample reduction as you sugest and should squeese it in with the 160mb on the hard drive. Also the volum controls box you mention is what I have been trying to get a response out of by checking any and all the boxes but nothing activates the headphones on the cd drive front.
I can listen to a normal cd on the phones no problem.
Cheers

[stephen~]

Ah I see. The socket on the front of the CD drive is completely isolated from Windows. It is just a built in thing and wont do anything other than playback sounds from cds within the player. So you won't be able to hear wav files or anything that is saved to the hard drive through that socket.

But on the back somewhere there must be a socket, perhaps next to the one the speakers are plugged into, which will allow you to connect your headphones. If not, turn the volume right down, unplugged the speakers and plug in your headphones. If the socket/plug size is different you can buy an adaptor for next to nothing in a hi-fi store.

If your soundcard is something like an AWE64 Soundblaster type thing, it ought to have 4 sockets, a mic in, line in, speaker out and line out. Plug the phones in the line out and mute the speakers in the windows volume control.

[Serenity1]

Thanks Steve, Problem solved!
Found a minni jack plug in the rear of the PC. This has worked a gem. I've copied the renamed preset file directly onto a RW-CD and can play it through WINAMP (smoothes it out) to the headphones. Wow! this took me weeks to get this far.
Also to anyone  - there is a preset on the BWG site which is called Golden Dawn, has any one had any success with it. I'm a bit suss of some of these presets as they could be using the neive as gunipigs so to speak.
Cheers.

[DarkQuest]

could someone give me a private message of the registration number as well for the brainwave generator? id really appreciate it, thx

[stephen~]

I downloaded Golden Dawn last week coincidentaly. I think that preset is bovine excrement quite honestly - there's no binuaral beat, just a mono tone with some stereo sound effects. Wouldn't swear to it that it is entirely useless, but I thought the idea was to introduce different frequencies into the left and right ear to produce the binaural beat, thereby encouraging the brain to pulse at the same frequency. All this one does is drone along.

[Gotem]

Will someone send me a Serial number for the BWgenerator please