Pioneer with GP8 Amp

GP8 Amp benefits

Measures BVP/PPG Heart Rate, ECG, Muscle Tension (2 Channels of EMG), Skin Conductance (GSR), Temperature, and Respiration*. *Respiration Belt sold separately
Filled with a wide variety of professional games, environments & workshops. Play Dual Drive Racing, Relax with Petals of Light, Train with detailed Customized Graphs.
Increased skin conductance and heart rate accuracy for more effective training. People with dry hands or low heart rate variability can train effectively!
Professional quality amplifier with highly durable, yet easily replaceable, sensors.
Made by J&J Engineering, a biofeedback hardware manufacturer who has been designing professional multi-modality systems for over 40 years.
Includes all sensors except respiration belt. Includes rubber heart rate finger sensor, hard plastic heart rate finger sensor, ear clip heart rate sensor, temperature sensor, 6 leads (for EMG, ECG, skin conductance), 5 permanent electrodes for ECG or EMG, 2 finger Velcro electrodes for skin conductance, 2 Velcro wrist bands for wrist-to-wrist ECG, and 50 disposable electrodes for ECG or EMG.

Package	Price	Order
Order Alive Pioneer with GP8 Amp Download software, GP8 Amp and Sensors arrive by mail. Includes all sensors except Respiration Belt (sold below).	$1199
Order GP8 Amp Upgrade Includes full Alive Pioneer for GP8 Amp system, but at a $300 discount for owners of Alive Clinical. Includes an extra bonus Alive Clinical to Alive Pioneer software upgrade for your current sensors. Includes all sensors except Respiration Belt (sold below).	$899
Respiration Belt for GP8 Amp Measure and display breathing using the GP8 Amp Respiration Belt. Alive Pioneer contains dedicated Respiration Graphs and a yellow respiration line in the standard Alive bottom graphs. If you purchase 2 Respiration Belts, you can train abdominal and chest respiration simultaneously in Graph Training. Alive Pioneer with GP8 Amp required.	$99
iFeel USB Heart Rate Sensor with Soft Rubber Finger Sensor The iFeel Sensor makes GP8 Amp training easier. When training Smoothness / HRV you can use the small but highly accurate iFeel Sensor, even without the GP8 Amp, for a quick and easy training session. The iFeel Sensor can also be used with the GP8 Amp as a highly comfortable heart rate source, to measure SpO2, and to train 2 users simultaneously. Alive Pioneer with GP8 Amp required.	$149
Alive Pioneer Software Only For users who already own a GP8 Amp and would like to use Alive Pioneer with their GP8 Amp. Download software, GP8 Amp required.	$599

Note: You will receive an acknowledgement of your order by email within 24 hours of your completed order. U.S. orders arrive within 2 weeks (international orders arrive within 3 weeks).

Alive Add-on Games

Alive can be expanded with additional fun games. All games below require Alive and an Alive compatible sensor.

Add-on
Advanced Media Player for Alive Train with DVDs and video files		Learn More »
Dreamscapes for Alive Explore relaxing, super high-quality, environments. Draw, compose music, play Sudoku, crosswords & more.		Learn More »
Arcade Mega game pack for Alive		Learn More »
VR Train in Virtual Reality with an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive		Learn More »
Tropical Heat Jet Ski for Alive Escape to the tropics for a jet ski adventure		Learn More »
Particle Editor 3 for Alive Many fun & relaxing mini-game environments		Learn More »
Inner Tube 3 for Alive Race against the clock with 4 space ships through 80 tunnel levels		Learn More »

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Alive Pioneer Version benefits

All Alive Clinical version features.
Train Muscle Tension (EMG) and Temperature using all Alive environments and games.
Train Smoothness, Skin Conductance and New Pioneer Measurements: Average Heart Rate, Autoranged EMG, Heart Rate Range, Emotional State and more.
All measurements can be manually adjusted or automatically ranged. New to muscle tension (EMG) feedback? Just select EMG Auto and start a game!

10 new Pioneer Environments with over 1 hour of new music!
Dreamscapes game pack available as an exclusive add-on game for Alive Pioneer.
Dreamscapes Video »
Adaptive Pacer responds to your heart rate changes continuously - never manually adjust a breath pacer again!
Unlimited number of graphing screens can be open and recording at the same time. New graphing screens are available for all Pioneer measurements!
Proprietary patent pending method for detecting and displaying emotional changes (experimental but very useful for people working with emotions).
Enhanced auditory training with optional audio breath pacer and success beep (choose from a variety of audio breath pacers).
Record audio using a microphone and review what happened right before a skin sweat spike or large increase in smoothness.

PACKAGE CONTENTS

All GP8 Amp packages include: GP8 Amp System

GP8 Amp Complete System with:
- Alive Pioneer for GP8 Amp software
- GP8 Amp
- 1 Rubber Finger Sensor for BVP Heart Rate
- 1 Hard Plastic Finger Sensor for BVP Heart Rate
- 1 Ear Clip Sensor for BVP Heart Rate
- 1 Temperature Sensor
- 2 Finger Velcro Electrodes for Skin Conductance
- 6 Leads (for EMG, ECG, Skin Conductance)
- 50 Disposable Electrodes for ECG or EMG
- 5 Permanent Electrodes for ECG or EMG
- 2 Velcro Wrist Bands for wrist-to-wrist ECG
Free Bonus - If you use IOM, Lightstone, or emWave sensors receive a free upgrade to unlock BVP Amplitude training, average heart rate training, and all new Pioneer Environments and features for your existing IOM, Lighstone, or emWave sensors.

Package	Price	Order
Order Alive Pioneer with GP8 Amp Download software, GP8 Amp and Sensors arrive by mail.	$1199
Order GP8 Amp Upgrade Includes full Alive Pioneer for GP8 Amp system, but at a $300 discount for owners of Alive Clinical. Includes an extra bonus Alive Clinical to Alive Pioneer software upgrade for your current sensors.	$899

Note: You will receive an acknowledgement of your order by email within 24 hours of your completed order. U.S. orders arrive within 2 weeks (international orders arrive within 3 weeks).

Which version of Alive is for me?

Experienced Clinician - Finally, professional quality sensors combined with the ease and fun of Alive! Unlock new types of training with EMG and Temperature. Enhance your sessions with Pioneer's additional measurements, graphs, adaptive pacer, advanced options and the widest variety of games available for heart rate, skin sweat, EMG and temperature training available on any system.
Research - Use Alive's extensive games and easy interface to keep participants engaged! Study Pioneer's new cutting-edge algorithms for measuring and interpreting heart rate and skin sweat changes. Display customized image sets and record the resulting physiological changes per image. Record microphone audio and review correlations between the audio recorded and physiological changes measured.
IOM or Lightstone sensors stopped working? - Upgrade to Alive Pioneer with the GP8 Amp and get a $300 discount. The GP8 Amp's sensors won't wear out, and if you break or lose one they are easily replaceable. Plus, you get to keep your IOM, Lightstone or emWave sensors and get a free copy of Alive Pioneer for IOM and emWave!
Home user with no professional training - Buy Alive
Already have Alive Pioneer - buy Add-ons like Dreamscapes,Tropical Heat, Particle Editor or Inner Tube.

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Alive Pioneer for GP8 Amp Features

Alive Pioneer for GP8	Alive Clinical	Alive
Unlimited User Profiles	Unlimited User Profiles	Up to 7 User Profiles
Train Heart Rate (ECG and BVP/PPG), 2 Channels of Muscle Tension (EMG), Skin Conductance (GSR) and Temperature. 1024 samples per second. Measure and train Heart Rate, EMG, Temperature and Skin Conductance simultaneously. New Pioneer heart rate and skin sweat measurements: Automatically Ranged Skin Conductance Manually Ranged Smoothness - create your own smoothness difficulty level! Average Heart Rate - train large shifts in relaxation by decreasing average heart rate Heart Rate Range - train to increase the vertical range of your heart rate SCL Stability (quick to respond and easy to train - Inner Tube and Particle Editor already have this training option) BVP Amplitude - The amplitude of the blood volume pulse signal quickly decreases in response to negative feelings of stress. This responds similarly to skin conductance, but isn't as effected by momentary mental changes. A revolutionary new stress training tool. Arousal - A measurement based mostly on skin conductance but calibrated specifically for detection of changes in emotional state. Arousal means the intensity of the feeling of an emotional state, both anger and extreme happiness are high arousal, depression and relaxation are low arousal. Useful for training people who need to wake up and energize, or need to calm down and relax. Valence - Train emotional positivity! An experimental new measurement proprietary to Alive Pioneer. Can be used with Arousal to approximate emotional state. A very useful tool for people wanting to work with difficult emotions or changing emotional states.	30 samples per second Smoothness (HRV) and Skin Conductance training with Alive Environments, Games and Graph Training	Heart Rate and Heart Rate Smoothness data
Pacer Options: Standard Visual breath pacer or the new Alive Pioneer Adaptive Pacer. The Adaptive Pacer is an optimal and fine tuned breath pacer. It uses your heart rate changes to continuously adjust the breath pacer. You never have to set the pacer speed, even when changing users! Add an audio breath pacer. - select from a variety of audio breath pacers and/or hear a reward sound when the measurement you are training is above 80%	Visual breath pacer	Visual breath pacer
Unlimited number of graphing screens can be open and recording at the same time. New graphing screens for all new Pioneer measurements. Additional customization options to design your own view. Resize and arrange graphs by resizing and arranging the graph windows into any combination desired. Graphing screens run and calculate data in the background for quick cycling between screens and views.	Detachable Graph Training module to use on a separate monitor as the User plays Alive Games, engages in Workshops, and explores Environments; Add comments, pause sessions, and view detailed graphs while playing Alive Games	Training on one monitor with Alive games or graphs.
All Clinical features plus: EMG Graph — with raw data, rectified data, ranged data and frequency displays (FFT) Temperature Graph — highly accurate for small changes in temperature Full Data Analysis — All Pioneer Measurements have dedicated graphing screens similar to the Alive Clinical SCL graph, with numerous statistical displays for each measurement. Full Monitoring Graph — with 8 measurements graphed at the same time Emotion Graphing** — showing changing emotional states	Clinical Graph Training that includes highly customizable graphing with audio feedback: Frequency Spectrum Graphing — shows the heart rate power spectrum, to determine which heart frequencies are dominant, how often the user is in the zone Accumulated Smoothness Graphing, including displays of detailed metrics* Skin Conductance Graphing — Ability to set starting, target, and baseline skin conductance, with an option to train skin conductance and smoothness simultaneously. Numerous skin conductance statistical displays**	Heart Rate Smoothness Graph Training
All Alive Clinical features plus Microphone Audio Recordings of Sessions Optional microphone audio recording allows you to review physiological changes that were responses to what was said during the session. Review new Pioneer measurements such as EMG, temperature, valence and more, alongside original measurements such as heart rate, skin conductance, and smoothness.	Clinical Session Review: Review any session with a high level of detail across time and/or by subset of session type: Heart Rate, Smoothness, Skin Conductance Level and Skin Conductance Stability graphs Review by session with high level of detail: single and multi-session review by activity or across time Each graph shows the average, maximum, minimum, session start (first 15 seconds average), session end (last 15 seconds average), change, and percent change statistics for any measure Export single or multi-session data to Excel for further analysis or to print a session summary	Session Review
In-game background music + ability to select any music of your own from your hard drive. Saves music changes allowing you to switch the default music for environments and mini-games. New Pioneer feedback environments with over 1 hour of new music!	In-game background music + ability to select any music of your own from your hard drive	In-game background music
Send markers to Alive using our Integrated customizable picture display system synchronized to graphs Alive Marker Interface (requires basic programming knowledge), allowing E-Prime or other tools to synchronize with Alive graphs by marking events.	Send markers to Alive using our Alive Marker Interface (requires basic programming knowledge), allowing E-Prime or other tools to synchronize with Alive graphs by marking events.	No research interface.
Free auto-updates as new Pioneer features are added	Free auto-updates as new Clinical features are added	Free auto-updates as new features are added
* Length of time smooth, % time in each smoothness zone, total time smooth, LF/HF ratio ** Stability, min, max and average, audio feedback

Beyond
the computer

Alive is not just about computer training. Your Alive User Guide includes the multi-disciplinary Alive & Beyond 8-Week Program.

The Alive & Beyond 8-Week Program has been developed to help people get the most out of Alive, bringing in off-screen concepts and exercises to complement the Alive software.

In your clinical practice, you are likely to choose instead to incorporate Alive with your existing training protocols for treating various conditions. The Clinical User Guide supplement contains many tips and tricks for using the advanced Graph Training features in Alive to create desired outcomes.

Behind Alive

Alive is the brainchild of Ryan Deluz, a software engineer with a background in biology. Ryan's vision to bring a liveliness and ease-of-use to innovative and powerful self-regulating tools — and his passion for his work —are at the core of Alive.

Alive & Beyond — and much of the Alive software itself — was developed in partnership with Yuval Oded, a cognitive behavioral psychologist and leading expert in biofeedback. Yuval also authored the Clinical Version User Guide Supplement.

Yuval, a consultant to the French Ministry of Defense, is a Clinical Psychologist who has developed biofeedback programs to help military personnel keep a clear head, suppress unhelpful responses to difficult situations, and manage an array of decisions and tasks. In his clinics, Yuval treats a wide array of conditions, including anxiety disorders, behavioral disorders, chronic illnesses, neurological problems, psychosomatic problems, head trauma and post traumatic stress disorder.

What is Alive? - All Versions of Alive Include

Diagnostics, educational resources, progress tracking, and a virtual coach to teach you techniques for breathing to lower and smooth heart rate, how to interpret your body data, and to suggest a program for meeting your goals.

As you play the Alive Games and explore the Environments, the Coach (optionally) stays with you throughout the entire experience, evaluating your progress, and helping you maximize the effectiveness of Alive — suggesting alternative programs and approaches as you play.

Alive Games

The most fun part of Alive. Includes Dual Drive Pro Manual, Dual Drive Pro Autopilot, and an assortment of Alive Mini Games, including:

Dream House— Build a dream house from the ground up, beginning in the morning and finishing by parking your car in the new garage at sundown.
Green Thumb — Make a gorgeous hyacinth bloom and wow you with its showy ultramarine flowers
Four Seasons — Propel a natural scene through all four seasons, enjoying spring showers, lush summer foliage, fall thunderstorms and the bare beauty of winter.
Alien Shuttle — Complete your alien mission by finding your way to the docking station in the mothership.
Night Flight — Enjoy navigating through a twinkling and busy cityscape.

Alive Environments

For training and development. Gorgeous visual environments to explore as you pace your breathing and smooth your heart rate include:

Alive Environments Breath Spiral — Move shiny particles in a 3D space as you inhale and exhale. Paced breathing creates a smoother heart and expands a disc of particles into spiraling waves.
Alive Environments Shape Shifter — The smoother your heart rate, the brighter a geometric shape becomes. Keep it smooth to see it morph into new forms.
Alive Environments Metal Pulse — Use paced breathing to turn undulating waves from orange to an intense blue.
Alive Environments Plasma — Use the pacer on the screen to smooth your heart rate and make undulating plasma appear. Slow the plasma by dropping your heart rate.
Alive Environments Tropical Ocean — Relax to make the wind blow the palm fronds and the wave sounds intensify.
Alive Audio Environments — Close your eyes, sink back into your chair, and breathe to smooth your heart rate. The more even your heart rate changes are, the more enveloping the music and relaxing sounds become. Choose from Rain, Stream, Waves, and Memory.

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Minimum System Requirements

Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11
2.0 GHz Processor, i5 or greater recommended
Dedicated Video Card with 512 MB of Dedicated Video Memory (almost any nVidia or AMD card)
1 GB RAM
3 GB of Disk Space
Internet connection recommended (enables updates and community features)
Alive may work even if your computer does not meet the minimum video card requirements. If you are unsure if Alive will work on your computer please download OpenGL Caps Viewer and make sure your OpenGL version is 2.0 or higher (on the first tab of OpenGL Caps Viewer, next to OpenGL, it should say OpenGL 2.0 or higher).
ALIVE MAY ONLY BE USED ON ONE COMPUTER AT A TIME. ALIVE CAN BE INSTALLED ON TWO COMPUTERS AS LONG AS ONLY ONE COPY OF ALIVE IS IN USE AT ANY GIVEN TIME.

Licensing and patent information

© 2009-2024 Somatic Vision Inc. Alive, Alive Clinical, Alive Pioneer, Gains & Drains, Today Log, Zoom Out, Change the Channel, Mental Mini-Breaks, Dual Drive, Dual Drive II, Dreamscapes, Somatic Vision VR, Inner Tube, Particle Editor, Tropical Heat and Advanced Media Player are all trademarks of Somatic Vision Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured under license from Quantum Intech, Inc. Quantum Intech and the Quantum Intech logo are trademarks of Quantum Intech, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries. HeartMath and the HeartMath logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of the Institute of HeartMath in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. Coherence algorithms contained within this product licensed from and © 1999-2010 Quantum Intech, Inc, with all rights reserved, and are protected by the following patents in the US: 6,358,201; 7,117,032; 7,163,512; 7,462,151 and 8,066,637. Other patents include: European Union 1156851; Canada 2,365,032; Australia 770323; China ZL00807109.8; Hong Kong HK1042056; Japan 4410234; Korea 10-0616370

Clinical Papers

Alive is a premier tool for peak performance training. In this white paper, leading psychophysiologist Yuval Oded, PhD details how to structure peak performance training with Alive, and the benefits of each graph training mode.

Clinical biofeedback paper for peak performance training

Download Peak Performance paper »

Alive Pioneer can be used with 2 IOMs or Lightstones for couples training. In this white paper, Yuval Oded, PhD describes how to use Alive's graph training to monitor interactions between partners.

Clinical biofeedback paper for couples training

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Games that Help

Tropical Heat

Spend ten minutes a day playing relaxing heart rate feedback games to reduce stress, optimize breathing, and improve performance at work.

Learn More about Heart Rate Feedback Jet Ski Racing

DeLee Lantz, Ph.D., BCIA

Alive is terrific for kids and teens. So far I have used it primarily with 11 to 16 year-olds. With other systems, I could never get an accurate heart rate signal from many younger children because they were so wiggly, and I often had to have very short training sessions because of their short attention span. With Alive, these children sit quietly and don't want to stop, even after 55 minutes. To quote one young boy who caught on immediately: "I have to stay calm even when things get hard."

Adam Kahn, parent

We got a call from the school principal: Our son is doing better! I'm sure that Dual Drive has been a factor in his improvement. I love watching him calm down and breathe.