
WaveRider Operating Manual
4
Copyright 1997-2004 Jonathan Purcell
ll Rights Reserved
Table of Contents
T
BLE OF
C
ONTENTS
......................................................................................................................................... 4
THE
SIGNIFIC NCE
OF
BR INW VES
ND
CONSCIOUSNESS ........................................................... 6
HOW
TO
USE
THIS
M NU L....................................................................................................................... 7
QUICK START.................................................................................................................................................... 9
Hardware Installation ............................................................................................................................... 10
Hardware Installation otes ...................................................................................................................... 11
Software Installation .................................................................................................................................. 12
U
SING THE
W
VE
R
IDER FOR THE
F
IRST
T
IME
.................................................................................................. 12
Set up the MIDI Device .............................................................................................................................. 12
Set up the Comm Port....................................................................................Error! Bookmark not defined.
O
NE
P
GE
O
PER TION L
O
VERVIEW
............................................................................................................... 14
C
ONNECTING
B
R INW VE
E
LECTRODES
.......................................................................................................... 16
ips for Electrode Use................................................................................................................................ 18
Conditions ecessary for Good Electrode Contact.................................................................................... 18
otes on Attaching Brainwave Electrodes ................................................................................................. 19
C
H NGING
MPLIFIC TION
.............................................................................................................................. 20
C
RING
F
OR
E
LECTRODES
............................................................................................................................... 21
E
LECTRODE
P
L CEMENT
................................................................................................................................. 23
LEARIG THE HEART, GSR, BRAI AD MUSCLE MODES............................................................ 25
HE RT ........................................................................................................................................................... 26
GSR................................................................................................................................................................. 28
BR IN ............................................................................................................................................................ 29
BR IN ............................................................................................................................................................ 30
MUSCLE......................................................................................................................................................... 31
MUSCLE......................................................................................................................................................... 32
KEY COCEPTS .............................................................................................................................................. 33
KEY COCEPTS .............................................................................................................................................. 34
KEY COCEPTS .............................................................................................................................................. 35
CHAELS ....................................................................................................................................................... 36
USE
C TEGORIES........................................................................................................................................ 36
FILE
CRE TION ........................................................................................................................................... 37
Configuration Files .................................................................................................................................... 37
Archive Files............................................................................................................................................... 37
ASCII FILE OU PU (Exporting to a spreadsheet).................................................................................. 38
WINDOWS ..................................................................................................................................................... 39
Strip Chart.................................................................................................................................................. 40
Fast Bars and Slow Bars ............................................................................................................................ 42
Spectrogram ............................................................................................................................................... 44
GSR Graph ................................................................................................................................................. 46
MIDI................................................................................................................................................................ 48
FFTS,
DIGIT L
FILTERS
ND
SIGN L
PROCESSING............................................................................ 51
MIDGAMES: WA ERIDER LESSO PLAS......................................................................................... 53
I
NTRODUCTION
................................................................................................................................................ 54
T
HE
B
ODY
:
GSR,
H
E RT
&
M
USCLE
.............................................................................................................. 56
GSR............................................................................................................................................................. 56
PLAYIG WI H HE HEAR RA E......................................................................................................... 62