Brain Wave Synchronizer

[woodman]

Does anyone have any first-hand experience with this feature found in Cool Edit Pro? I'm hoping that it could be used to help my poor, ailing wife who suffers from both fibromyalgia and from osteoarthritis get some much needed sleep. The operating manual for Cool Edit doesn't yield very much in the form of helpful tips and suggestions that I might use.

Anyone? Please .......

woodman

[crispycutz]

what it does is generate frequencies that are similar to the brains various activities....sleep, dreaming, thought etc... when applied to a waveform you have...ar have recorded...

the only other mention of brain waves i can recall was in "Nightmare on Elm Street" (the first one) when they were doing "nightmare" tests on the last girl alive....

The doctor mentioned Theta waves, Beta, Gamma whatever....


I'd research the types of brain waves produced during sleep, and alot mroe of the specifics as to types, and when it what stage, etc...

After doing some Google homework, maybe youd want to work on a "brain wave" track, where you take sounds of nature or something and add/subtract different kinds of brain waves...

CEP also generates different types of noises, sorry i cant be more specific or helpful, but perhaps this will inspire an idea in your soul...and you could GO FOR IT!!!

good luck

-Chris

[dobro]

Although I don't remember any details at all, I know there are commercial CDs available which have patterns of sounds and vibrations for generating different mental states: beta, delta, etc.

[lpdeluxe]

I don't think I'd base therapy on something I saw in "Nightmare on Elm Street." Maybe that's just me.

[DigiDunce]

If you visit this website: www.transparentcorp.com then you can read some information on brainwaves or download one of the products (free trial) and read up on it (documentation is pretty good).

The theory is that you can induce certain mental states using white noise, and the effect is much the same principle as inducing hypnosis. There is some scientific basis for it, but whether its of any practical use is, I guess a matter of opinion.

I must admit I had no idea that CoolEdit had a feature like this? Is it in Audition as well?

[ozpeter]

The name was changed in Audition - Binaural Autopanner is it. Probably Adobe felt legally uncomfortable messing with people's brains.

[lpdeluxe]

Who would have thought? I found Brain Wave Synchronizer in CEP 2.0 and then saw it wasn't in AA 1.5...excuse me, I've got to go Autopan myself binaurally.

[woodman]

Thanks for everyone's replies. I was hoping to find someone who'd actually used this feature in CEP, and what sort of experiences that were brought forth. Guess I'll have to blaze my own trails and see wha' hoppen.

[DigiDunce]

Originally Posted by woodman

Thanks for everyone's replies. I was hoping to find someone who'd actually used this feature in CEP, and what sort of experiences that were brought forth. Guess I'll have to blaze my own trails and see wha' hoppen.

Woodman - Transparent do a virtually identical product specifically for this purpose, so if you go onto their forum it may give you some insight and you can ask questions of people on there who have used it.

I might give the Binaurial Autopanner a go myself... just out of interest.

[Spaztic]

I have seen the option and before, just never thought of using it. I will track it though one of my tracks and see how it works.

[Toaster Pilot]

Around 1999-2000, I used the feature extensively in Cool Edit 96 and Cool Edit 2000 with good results. I use it to make custom self-hypnosis/meditiation CDs. At one point, Cool Edit had a chapter in their documentation on this useful feature. Good stuff.

If you are interested in making your own healing or pain management tapes you can get ideas by checking out books and recordings on self-hypnosis from the library to get ideas. You can then create a brainwave synch tone background and overdub your own spoken hypnotic inductions, suggestions and affirmations. The best audio to use for the binaural panning is white noise or "ocean wave" or other "nature" recordings. It's fun and many people find that it does help them. You cound even play around with imbedding subliminal affirmations in the audio. I don't think there is any scientific evidence that subliminals have any effect, but it can't hurt to play around.

Try googling for information on the brainwave synchronizer feature as well. I bet somebody on the web has the original documentation or their own write-up you can use as a guide for using the technology.

[Carbona]

If anyone comes across the frequency that allows you to quit smoking cigarrettes, lemme know

[woodman]

To ToasterPilot:
Thanks for your helpful suggestions and advice. I've already pursued some of the things you suggest. What I've learned so far seems to indicate that the desired goal is to get the brain to "oscillate" and resonate at a desired freq. and "synch" itself to the sounds that caused the oscillation to start in the first place. This would seem to put the technique in a somewhat different category than self-hypnosis.

To Carbona:
As a "victim" of the tobacco industry (55 years of cigarette smoking), I would urge you with every fibre of my being to do whatever it takes to get yourself a divorce from the evil menace as soon as possible - if not sooner. Don't let them destroy your lungs like they did mine and leave you with emphysema or lung cancer (or both) and dependent upon supplemental oxygen in order to keep on living a while longer. I know that your reply here was sort of "tongue-in-cheek", but my response to you is deadly serious. Don't let - I've gotta quit the damned things one of these days become your convenient procrastination copout - to be repeated endlessly until it may become too late. Perhaps this BrainWave Synchronizer could be of help to you ... check it out.

[DigiDunce]

Anyone found documentation specific to the Brainwave Synchronizer? Best I could do was this (for CoolEdit 1.2) http://www.geocities.com/thiwankaw/a..._cooledit.html

[crispycutz]

Originally Posted by Carbona

If anyone comes across the frequency that allows you to quit smoking cigarrettes, lemme know

L O FUCKING L!!!!!

(ahem).........excuse me...