Get Much Needed Sleep, Relax, Lucid Dream, Induce Creativity and Awareness with a Brainwave Generator
I have been using brainwave generators for years and was disappointed for quite some time that one was not available for OS X. Brainwave generators make binaural beats that through headphones can create specific brainwaves associated with calming, awake, deep sleep, intuition, focus, etc. Instead of taking uppers to get through studying in college like most undergraduate students, I used binaural beats to stay focused and get the creative juices flowing.
The theory behind binaural beats is that if you apply slightly different frequency sine waves to each ear, a beating affect is created in the brain itself, due to the brain’s internal wiring. If, in the presence of these tones, you relax and let your mind go, your mind will naturally synchronize with the beat frequency. In this way it is possible to tune the frequency of your brain waves to particular frequencies that you have selected, using of the four bands: Delta: deep sleep, Theta: dreaming and intuitive stuff, Alpha: awake, focussed inside, and Beta: awake, focussed outside (SBaGen Website: http://uazu.net/sbagen/#dl_mac).
SBaGen is a Unix-based Brainwave Generator. Download the .dmg file and Drag The Sbagen folder to your Applications folder to install it.
Sbagen is an UNIX Application, so we will need to use the Terminal to open Sbagen and play binaural beats.
Follow these instructions to start listening to binaural beats:
Navigate to the Sbagen Folder inside the Applications Folder. Double Click the file called START.command.
This will open the Sbagen Application inside Terminal. Instructions for using Sbagen are listed here. To view a listing of all the sequences (sound files), type “ls *.sbg”.
what are all these sequences? They are basically sound files that produce certain tones that get translated into brainwaves for various levels of activity. See the list below for some examples:
- ts-Brain-Alpha - awake, focused inside
- ts-Brain-Beta - awake, focused outside
- ts-Brain-Delta - deep sleep
- ts-Brain-Theta - dreaming and intuitive stuff
- Focus 10 - brain awake, body asleep
- Focus 12 - expanded awareness, in the mood to head out and explore
- Focus 15 - no time, 3 hours seems like 2 minutes
- Focus 21 - alternate energy systems, bridge into worlds with non-human entities
- Focus 22 - place where people with ‘loose, chaotic thoughts’ go after death
- Focus 24 - belief system territories, place where dogmatically inclined people go when dead
- Focus 27 - the park, a way-station, a place of high creativity, a stepping stone to areas beyond.
To play a sequence, type “Sbagen nameofthesequence.sbg”.
To play another sequence, quit Terminal and start over again. The documentation reveals how to link sequences together. For instance, I can induce an entire night of lucid dreaming by scheduling different sequences to play after one another. Read the documentation and the Sbagen website for more information.
Full documentation for Sbagen can be found here.
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Couldn’t someone make one that’s more straight forward and easy to use. I guess I’m just too dumb to get this one up and running
Roni,
At what point are you having an issue? I can help…
I’ve got it running now, thanks though
Maybe I’m not sooo stupid :p
Don’t understand this at all, clicked on SBaGen and followed the download but ended up with a list that when I double click, just comes up with more lists. No idea how to actually listen to the binaurals.
after you get the list by using the command ls, find the filename you wish to open.
type the command Sbagen followed by the name of the file you want to play.
i.e.
Sbagen nameofthesequence.sbg
I’ve used sbagen on my older computers and I love it so much! I have a MacBook running Leopard and I get this error whenever I try to load a .sbg or run the DEMO.command:
“Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029″
Any ideas? It should be fine with Leopard and Intel Macs, right? UNIX is UNIX, right?
Jona,
Honestly, this would be a better question for the Sbagen mailing list.
Sorry,
Steve
…came across this post while searching for a decent brainwave solution for the Mac… I think it is somewhat frustrating having to use a command line tool on OS X for this… currently I am running NeuroProgrammer in a virtual Windoze machine and hope the guys over there did not lie when they promised they were working on a native Mac version of NP2…
Cheers
Martin
dragged it to my applications and nothing… i am a new imac user so that might be it.. i am so confused..
lucy, you must follow the instructions in the post highlighted in blue. when you double click start.command, does a window appear with a command line interface?
What is the audio output for this?
cuz when i type in for example “sbagen focus-10-a.sbg ” this came out:
Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029
to solve the problem of “Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029″ open up “Audio MIDI setup” in your /Applications/Utilities folder, and change the audio output from 2ch-24bit to 2ch-16bit. Also, make sure the format is 44100Hz.
easy as pie. I think you’ll have to re-do this after every reboot, unfortunately.
This is great info…many thanks!
Nedlow
I have the same error code as Angela
for example “sbagen focus-10-a.sbg ” this came out:
Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029
I went to “Audio Midi Setup” and Audio Output Section says -
“Output is not supported”
any suggestions??
steveblue - The sbagen list is pretty useless - there is no archive to search, the wiki is non-existent, and well..
I did ask about the buffer issue, since I am also experiencing it after a year of not having a problem using the program. IF there is an answer, I’ll post it here.
Found the problem:
SYSTEM PREF—-> SOUND —–> SOUND EFFECTS
You need to make sure that under SOUND EFFECTS you have the following selected in the drop down menu “Play sounds and alerts from”: SELECTED SOUND OUTPUT DEVICE selected.
This really needs a genuine user interface instead of terminal commands.
Isn’t this open source? Will anyone ever create a real user interface with sliders and other controls of frequencies, length, slides, mixing, various output file types etc……
Macbook- not pro- regular one- black
same problem:
Set audio output buffer size failed, status = 1852797029
also: “Output is not supported”
i system pref> sound> sound effects-
Play alerts and sounds through- has only option-
in gray: Internal speakers
does this mean this program can not be run on a unaltered non-pro macbook?
can anyone offer suggestions- or even give feedback if they in fact can do this?
SOLUTION for “Set audio output buffer size failed” error:
As long as I have headphones plugged into the audio input socket of my MacBook computer, sbagen works fine.
The error only appears when I do not have headphones plugged into the audio jack on my MacBook computer.
The Mac system sound preference, “Play alerts and sound effects through”, will change from “Internal Speakers” to “Headphones” when headphones are plugged in. Headphones are needed for the binaural beat effects that sbagen can produce.
plz can you kindly send me a lucid dreaming induction on wav format? or teach me steps on how to creat one, using brainwav gen. Thanks.
On a mac you could use Codeweavers “Crossover” application to run BrainWave Generator.
It allows you to run Windoze apps in the OSX environment.
Worked for me