How to use
Important
- Use headphones for a better experience.
- Don't use this app while driving or operating heavy machinery.
- Take care of your hearing, is not necessary to hear these sounds at high volume.
How it works
Binaural beats, or binaural tones, are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, caused by specific physical stimuli.This effect was discovered in 1839 by Heinrich Wilhelm Dove and earned greater public awareness in the late 20th century based on claims coming from the alternative medicine community that binaural beats could help induce relaxation, meditation, creativity and other desirable mental states.
The effect on the brainwaves depends on the difference in frequencies of each tone: for example, if 300 Hz was played in one ear and 310 in the other, then the binaural beat would have a frequency of 10 Hz.
To experience the binaural beats perception, it is best to listen to this file with headphones on moderate to weak volume – the sound should be easily heard, but not loud. Note that the sound appears to pulsate only when heard through both earphones. For more info visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats
Wave Types
Brainwave speed is measured in Hertz (cycles per second) and they are divided into bands delineating slow, moderate, and fast waves.
INFRA-LOW (<.5HZ)
Infra-Low brainwaves (also known as Slow Cortical Potentials), are thought to be the basic cortical rythms that underlie our higher brain functions. Very little is known about infra-low brainwaves. Their slow nature make them difficult to detect and accurately measure, so few studies have been done. They appear to take a major role in brain timing and network function.
DELTA WAVES (.5 TO 3 HZ)
Delta Waves, the slowest but loudest brainwaves Delta brainwaves are slow, loud brainwaves (low frequency and deeply penetrating, like a drum beat). They are generated in deepest meditation and dreamless sleep. Delta waves suspend external awareness and are the source of empathy. Healing and regeneration are stimulated in this state, and that is why deep restorative sleep is so essential to the healing process.
THETA WAVES (3 TO 8 HZ)
Theta brainwaves, occur in sleep and are also dominant in deep meditation. Theta brainwaves occur most often in sleep but are also dominant in deep meditation. Theta is our gateway to learning, memory, and intuition. In theta, our senses are withdrawn from the external world and focused on signals originating from within. It is that twilight state which we normally only experience fleetingly as we wake or drift off to sleep. In theta we are in a dream; vivid imagery, intuition and information beyond our normal conscious awareness. It’s where we hold our ‘stuff’, our fears, troubled history, and nightmares.
ALPHA WAVES (8 TO 12 HZ)
Alpha brainwaves occur during quietly flowing thoughts, but not quite meditation. Alpha brainwaves are dominant during quietly flowing thoughts, and in some meditative states. Alpha is ‘the power of now’, being here, in the present. Alpha is the resting state for the brain. Alpha waves aid overall mental coordination, calmness, alertness, mind/body integration and learning.
BETA WAVES (12 TO 38 HZ)
Beta brainwaves are present in our normal waking state of consciousness. Beta brainwaves dominate our normal waking state of consciousness when attention is directed towards cognitive tasks and the outside world. Beta is a ‘fast’ activity, present when we are alert, attentive, engaged in problem solving, judgment, decision making, or focused mental activity.Beta brainwaves are further divided into three bands; Lo-Beta (Beta1, 12-15Hz) can be thought of as a 'fast idle', or musing. Beta (Beta2, 15-22Hz) is high engagement or actively figuring something out. Hi-Beta (Beta3, 22-38Hz) is highly complex thought, integrating new experiences, high anxiety, or excitement. Continual high frequency processing is not a very efficient way to run the brain, as it takes a tremendous amount of energy.
GAMMA WAVES (38 TO 42 HZ)
Gamma brainwaves are the fastest of brain waves and relate to simultaneous processing of information from different brain areas. Gamma brainwaves are the fastest of brain waves (high frequency, like a flute), and relate to simultaneous processing of information from different brain areas. Gamma brainwaves pass information rapidly and quietly. The most subtle of the brainwave frequencies, the mind has to be quiet to access gamma. Gamma was dismissed as 'spare brain noise' until researchers discovered it was highly active when in states of universal love, altruism, and the ‘higher virtues’. Gamma is also above the frequency of neuronal firing, so how it is generated remains a mystery. It is speculated that gamma rhythms modulate perception and consciousness, and that a greater presence of gamma relates to expanded consciousness and spiritual emergence.
The App Goal
You can generate and save your own frequencies, the sounds are produced in real time, they are not pre-recorded sounds. This enables to play them without interruption for a long time without large audio files.
Inputing Wave Values in Hz
There is 3 ways to input wave values:
- With the sliders (bars).
- Tapping the buttons "-0.01" or "+0.01" - You can hold to keep increasing the wave value.
- Tapping the current wave value and input the desired value in the dialog box.
Presets
The app comes with a section of pre build presets, its just a collection to give you an easy reference, you can delete all (and restore later), or keep then with your own created presets, we encourage you to experiment and discover the best range and frequencies are more effective and confortable to your body, you can create and save how many presets you want! it's up to you ;)
Saving a new preset
Just change a value and then click in "Tap to Save", give a name for your preset and then click save, your preset will be listed in the presets section.
Delete a preset
Just tap the trahscan icon in the top right corner of the preset item.
Timer
- Just tap the timer button to start the timer
- Tap again to cancel
- You can change the timer value in the app settings section
The sound will shutdown automatically with a long fade out effect when the time ends
Device limitations and settings (Android only)
Latest Android versions, are evolving to manage system recourses and automatically slow down the cpu usage for optimize resources.
The real time audio synthesis, like we use in our apps is a very sensitive process when the OS is trying to stop or decrease cpu usage for this main thread.
If you have some issue playing the audio, please follow the instructions in this link:
Support
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