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SBaGen 1.4.3 for Pocket PC Released
Posted on Monday, October 16 @ 09:30:38 PDT by lincomatic
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If you like to experiment with brain waves, you can now carry a portable brain wave synchronizer in your pocket. I've ported the latest version of Jim Peters' SBaGen Binaural Beat program to the Pocket PC ...
SBaGen is Jim Peters' open source binaural beat program. Brain waves are classified into four rough bands:
- Delta - .5-3Hz - deep sleep
- Theta - 4-7 Hz - dreaming and intuitive stuff
- Alpha - 8-13 Hz - awake, focused inside
- Beta - >= 14Hz - awake, focused outside
It is thought that exposing the brain to these frequencies will allow you to "entrain" or guide your brain into one of the above states. A variety of methods have been devised, using light and sound, to encourage the brain into the desired state. The light method usually involves goggles and blinking lights flashing directly into your closed eyelids. Since the frequencies are too low to be heard by the ears, the binaural beat technique was devised. It uses the same principle that guitar players use to tune their instruments.. when you play two notes that are very close to each other, there is a sort of beating phenomenon, which increases in frequency as the notes become close to each other. The theory behind binaural beats is that if you apply slightly different frequency sine waves to each ear, the beats will cause the brain to synchronize with them.
You can learn more about Binaural Beats from the SBaGen website, or by simply plugging "binaural beats" into your favorite Internet search engine.
Several years ago, I did a rather kludgey port of SBaGen v1.09 to the Pocket PC. This time, I've done a better job in porting v1.4.3 to Pocket PC 2003. Per the GPL v2, I've included the source code and build environment for compiling it with Embedded Visual C++. With the appropriate SDK, you can target any Windows CE platform. The pre-compiled binary I've built will work on any Pocket PC 2003 or Windows Mobile 5.0 device.
To install SBaGen CE,
- Download the binary distribution: sbagence-ppc2003-1.4.3.zip.
- Copy sbagence.exe to your Pocket PC. You can use ActiveSync, or even run it directly from a CF or SD card.
- Copy the sample SBG sequence files to your My Documents folder. You can create a My Documents folder on a storage card, if you like.
- Tap the "Open SBG" button, and select the sequence that you would like to play.
- You must wear headphones to listen to binaural beats. Listening through loudspeakers will lessen the beating effect.
Note: This version does not support sequence generation or MP3 or OGG files. It was too much trouble for me to get that working at this point.
Downloads
SBaGen CE built for Pocket PC 2003, including sample sequences
SBaGen 1.4.3 source code, including build environment for Embedded Visual C++
Links
SBaGen -- Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab
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