SonoBat versions 2.5 through 2.5.5 add helpful incremental improvements and new user-requested features to make it easier to process files. It builds upon enhancements implemented with SonoBat 2.4 and earlier SonoBat version 2. The callouts below and descriptions that follow highlight some of the new
features to support your analysis of bat echolocation calls.
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• And while you're at it, would you like to designate species codes or other information in your filenames? Edit the filename in the filename display text box, push the chng key and voilá.
• Want to hear what a spotted or mastiff bat really sounds like? Press the play real sound button. Or you can hear the real cadence of a feeding buzz (you get a virtual bat detector effect).
• And to further increase your listening pleasure: the sound play of zoom views corresponds to the zoom view (and the moving cursor keeps up with it all).
Other improvements and enhancements:
• New, more powerful filter options motivated by the insect noise in the eastern United States. They are called "anti-katydid" filters but will work against other noises as well.
• A new routine behind the screen palette: switching color/gray or black/white background automatically brings you to optimal default settings without having to adjust the intensity control as before
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• The return/enter key activates a std view, return/enter key also ends std view.
