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This is going to be a very quick look, because the machine only just arrived today, Fortunately I had a bit of a break in the real work, so I’ve been able to sneak a good bit of time with the little beasty.

Photosonix have been around since 1981, and took the plunge into neuro-products in 1990. They’ve obviously been paying attention to what’s going on, because they’ve packed a heap into their mid-range offering (their range also includes the Luma10 and the Nova Pro 100).

They’ve gone with the enviro angle for the packaging – a very plain white box with a simple coloured sleeve, bearing the directive under the flap to “please recycle”. Inside one finds the InnerPulse, a pair of glasses, a pair of headphones, a patch cable, a serial cable and a manual. Apart from the diagrams, which look as though they’ve been captured off a webpage and printed on a laser printer out of toner, the manual is good. Very good, actually, with clear instructions and the most detailed session descriptions I’ve seen.

The machine itself shows just how deceptive web advertising can be – I expected a sleek, compact unit with sweeping curves. In real life, the unit is big – 145x90x20mm. That’s almost twice the size of a Procyon, but quite a lot thinner. The corners are only slightly rounded, so it looks almost like a small paperback. The build is mediocre. The battery cover only just keeps the 4x AA batteries in, bulging in the middle. The hole in the case for the power adapter (optional, 6V 300mA) looks as though it was chewed out by mice. A strange little piece of silver plastic (the same as the control panel) is stuck over an unused hole at the sockets end.

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I was hoping to have the ColorTrack glasses, but as they cost as much again as the machine itself, I decided to go with the Standard glasses for a start. The glasses that arrived are the True White, which confuses me a little, as they are listed as Premium glasses. Whatever. Physically, the glasses are unimpressive – better than iLightz, about the same as L&S Synergizer. Unlike virtually every other machine on the market, this machine uses Common Ground glasses, so none of the other ones I’ve got lying around can be used. The headphones aren’t bad – they’re comfortable and they sound just fine. I dearly wish, however, that mind machine manufacturers would realise that phones with split cable entry are the root of all cable-tangle evil – it is a matter of natural law that every time you put everything down, by the time you pick it up again, everything is looped through the headphones. Please, oh please, start supplying single cable entry headphones (like the ones that come with the MindAlive machines).

That’s it. I have no further criticisms. I really, really like this machine!

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In use, the glasses have substantially increased my enthusiasm about White. They’re sticky-outy LEDs, but boy, are they bright. This is the first machine I’ve used that I simply cannot use at full brightness. It also gives a great demonstration of how varying the brightness changes the visuals. Like the DAVID, it has a socket on the glasses – no worry about damaging the cable at the connection point, Unlike the DAVID, which has 2.5mm plug and socket for the glasses, the InnerPulse uses a standard 3.5mm stereo connector – easy to find a replacement at any electronics shop.

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The four-button/LED user interface confirms my impression that LCD alphanumeric displays aren’t a significant advantage – everything you need to do is easily done. Photosonix have pushed the envelope in how much information can be conveyed with a 3-digit 7-segment display – almost every possible segment combination has a meaning (download the manual and take a look!) In addition to the 7-segment display, there’s 7 discrete LEDs that provide status and selection information.

I mentioned in another post that I’d been playing some Photosonix sessions with Mind Explorer. My comment was something to the effect that if the InnerPulse renders the sessions as well as Mind Explorer, it would be a pretty nice machine. Well, it does. The sessions sound great, and what a variety. There’s 50 Sound and Light sessions, grouped neatly into Relaxation, Special, Meditation, Sleep, Learning, Energize, Create/Visualize and Entertain/Fun categories. When selecting sessions, you first select a category, indicated on the display by the best 7-segment impression of the category initial. You then up/down to the particular session within the category. There’s also 10 Breath sessions. These sessions simply have rising and falling tones, along with gently brightening and dimming lights, to correspond to inhalation and exhalation. It would be ridiculously easy to emulate these sessions with any machine or software, but I guess the big thing is that Photosonix just did it. The final four sessions are Improv – random based on theta, alpha, SMR or beta.

The few sessions I’ve already tried are as good as any of their type. The audio is very pleasing, using pulsed frequency, pulsed surf, pulsed chords, binaural beats, binaural beats with surf, dual binaurals and/or dual monaurals. Having a noise generator (surf) is a great touch. The lightshows are well designed and make good use of a feature similar to the iLightz – light/sound phase control, with the options of in-phase, left/right, front/back (lights then sound then lights…), cross, lights alternating or sound alternating. I believe this is the only machine that allows session time scaling – after pressing Play to start the 10 second countdown, pressing Select displays the session time, which can be incremented or decremented with the Up and Down keys (the time changes in preset steps).

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I like a machine to have a manual mode, and the InnerPulse has a seriously kick-ass manual mode – Operator Controlled Session. Everything is accessible in real time from the front panel – beat, pitch, tone-type, ramps and sound/light phase. Unfortunately it’s a bit too much to hope that this could be done blind – with so many functions it is necessary to take the glasses off and have a look at the status LEDs as you flick through the options. Beat and Pitch can, however be done blind quite nicely.

The other controls are the on/off switch, which is easily overlooked, being a little black nubbins recessed into the case near the headphone socket. It looks a bit cheapo, but it works well and it’s unlikely to be accidentally pressed. The volume and brightness are on the side of the machine and are plain, simple analog thumbwheels – nothing clever, they just work.

When I was first looking at the InnerPulse (when I was in a snotty mood with MindPlace I seriously considered this machine) it had the AudioStrobe logo printed on it. When I saw that this one didn’t I quickly checked the manual and the website. All’s well, it’s a really, truly live AudioStrobe decoder and it does the job as well as the L&S or Proteus.

One the thing I don’t like about single colour glasses and the left/right flashing thing is that it’s really annoying if the left and right intensity don’t match. There’s a lot of good reasons why they often don’t – you have to pay extra for brightness-matched LEDs among others. The InnerPulse deals with this by having independent left/right brightness controls tucked discretely away in the Options mode. Also under Options you’ve got a choice of sine, square or phase-erase (random pulse width) for the glasses drive waveform, some custom tweaks for the Breath and Improve modes, and a Restore Defaults option for when you’ve created total chaos.

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The preset sessions are cast in stone, but there’s space for another 25 sessions/250 segments. Additional sessions (the ones I’ve referred to before) can be downloaded free. You can also create your own sessions with the optional (US$39.00) L/S Designer software. I don’t have a copy just yet, but I’ll post an update when I’ve had a look at it. Sessions are uploaded to the InnerPulse with the free, downloadable, L/S Librarian program. Connection to a PC is via the supplied serial cable (the same as the Proteus). I’ve got mixed feelings about the USB/serial debate. Serial ports are getting a bit scarce on new machines, but they work without any fussing with drivers. USB ports, on the other hand, are everywhere, but you’re often stuck with operating system/vendor driver issues. USB-Serial adapters are cheap enough, but some just don’t quite work like a real hardware serial port.

Honestly, we, the AVS consuming public, are truly spoiled for choice. I started off giving relative ratings, but I’m going to give that up as a plain bad idea. The InnerPulse is a good machine. It’s really up to you to decide just what features matter to you – you’re just not going to end up with a bad machine, but on the other hand, you’re also not going to find all things desirable in any one of them.

It’s been a long day. I think I’ll take my InnerPulse to bed now, and as my mind is going to be still well and truly abuzz, I’ll give the TKO, Technical Knock Out, “high tech sleep aid” a go.

Cheers,
Craig

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P.S. I’ve now had a little play with the L/S Designer. It uses a very simple spreadsheet format with all functions neatly laid out. The graphical views don’t appear to be all that useful, except possibly for spotting anomalies. In many ways this editor is similar to the one that is available for the DAVID – straightforward and functional with no frills. The design of the InnerPulse and DAVID sound systems is obviously quite similar, as the sounds are all quite specific, whereas the Proteus and Procyon, being full synthesisers, have to be a little more arcane, allowing infinite flexibility in how you apply tone generation and modulation. Once again, very few people ever do more than dabble with their own session design, and the sessions supplied with the InnerPulse, and available on their website, cover most needs very adequately. The editor will do a perfectly fine job for those who do feel the need to do it their way.





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