SonoBat QuickStart: basic operations

open file Alternative:Drag and drop a file or directory here

help info

SonoBat works best with individual files of bat pass events.

notes embedded with wav file

compressed view removes pauses between calls

same file displayed in real time view displays entire recording

select file with one

click

drag to scroll

click to jump

pull down to navigate up

directory hierarchy

previous file highlighted

play sound

moving cursor tracks playback

playback of time expanded files in real time for audible soundssimulates a bat detector for ultrasound to hear actual call cadence

Contextual Help- Cntl-H (Windows); Cmd-Shift-H (Mac)

popup help messages

zoom selection selectable to only zoom time scale(eliminates need to capture freq to maintain scale of view)

Individual calls may be processed into high resolution standard views. This enables viewing calls in standard time scales that facilitate comparison and recognition without further manual zooming and resetting scales.

In compressed view mode, calls may be selected for processing into std views by just selecting any area near the call.

press to have std view time automatically selected

buttons for manual std view time selection

In real time mode, std view selections and centering may be selected manually.

initiate std view

Initial coarse zoom

final centering

zoom, then invoke std

view

Std view selections may be saved to the reference library with attached notes.

appended reference view

Any std view saved as a reference view may be used for subsequent comparison to sequences and std views.

Reference views may be assembled into compilations.

appended compiled reference view of different calls to show a species repertoire at a glance

ruler enabled to show a frequency line for comparison

low frequency noise may be filtered

filter applied

SonoBat can automatically select a filter, or accept a manual selection New with version 2.9,

Careful: leaving manual filters enabled can miss low freq signals

correct filter to render audible frequency bat calls

Quantitative analysis of calls in std view mode with automated call trending.

More than fifty quantitative parameters written to a spreadsheet.

Intelligent call trending algorithm can recognize the end of calls buried in echo and noise.

SonoBat can also successfully establish trends through noise and from low power signals.

Files may be edited in real time

mode to crop noise or other

undesirable sections.

Filenames may be edited from within SonoBat.File notes and attributes

may be edited.

default panel size

stretchedpanel size

The SonoBat panel may be stretched to fit any screen size.

The SonoBat preferences panel enables customization and automation of many default settings.