Raven Pro 1.4 User's Manual
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Raven Pro 1.4 User’s Manual Revision 11 10 December 2010 This manual can be printed or used online. To access all online fea- tures, we recommend viewing with the latest version of Adobe [Acrobat] Reader, available free at http://www.acrobat.com. For online viewing, use the bookmarks in the navigation pane on the left to navigate to sec- tions within the manual. Cross references in the text and index entries are hypertext links: click the link to view the referenced section or page. Copyright notice Raven software, the Raven 1.4 User’s Manual, and example sounds Copyright ©2003 Cornell Lab of Ornithology. All rights reserved. Reproduction of any part of this work in any form without permission is prohibited. The Raven software includes code licensed from RSA Security, Inc. Some portions licensed from IBM are available at http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/. Trademarks Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac and Mac OS are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Java is a registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Other brands are trademarks of their respective holders and should be noted as such. Mention of specific software or hardware products in this manual is for informational purposes only and does not imply endorsement or recommendation of any product. Cornell University and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology make no claims regarding the performance of these products. Credits Raven was developed with partial support from the US National Science Foundation (grant DBI-9876714, Principal Investigators: Christopher W. Clark and Kurt M. Fristrup), with additional support from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Raven software was written by Harold Mills, Tim Krein, Dean Hawthorne, Scott Maher, Andrew Jackson, Aisha Thorn, Dounan Hu, Laura Strickman, Christina Ahrens, Jason Rohrer, and Jason Adaska. The Raven User’s Manual was written by Russell A. Charif, Amanda M. Waack, and Laura M. Strickman with contributions by Tim Krein, Dean Hawthorne, Ann Warde, Dimitri Ponirakis, Wendy Alberg, and Sarah Smith. Raven artwork by Diane Tessaglia-Hymes. The Raven development project is led by Tim Krein and is under the general direction of Christopher W. Clark. Citation When citing use of Raven in scientific publications, please refer to the software by referring to the Raven website: www.birds.cornell.edu/raven When citing use of this manual, please refer to it as follows: Charif, RA, AM Waack, and LM Strickman. 2010. Raven Pro 1.4 User’s Manual. Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. For more information about Raven, visit the Raven website: www.birds.cornell.edu/raven Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 USA Raven 1.4 User’s Manual, revision 8 Table of Contents, Raven 1.4 Chapter 1 Getting Started . .1 About this chapter. 1 The Raven window . 1 Menu bar . 1 Toolbars . 1 Side panel . 1 Raven desktop . 2 Opening a sound file . 2 Window preset and paging . 4 Speed correction . 5 File format . 5 Opening sounds in different file formats . 6 . 7 Opening multi-channel files. 7 Opening files from Canary. 7 Understanding the Sound Window. 7 Playing a sound . 8 Making a selection. 9 Playing a selected part of a signal. 9 Filtered play. 9 Scrolling playback and position markers. 10 Looping and reverse playback . 10 Multi-channel playback . 10 Playback rate. 11 Copying Part of a Sound . 12 Copying a selection to a new sound window. 12 Copy a selection to an existing sound. 13 Saving All or Part of a Sound . 13 Saving a signal . 14 Saving a selection . 15 Saving Your Workspace . 15 Saving a workspace . 15 Opening a workspace . 15 Printing . 17 Exporting images to files . 18 Copying images to the clipboard. 18 Recording a sound (acquiring input) . 18 Selecting an audio input device. 19 Create new recorder . 19 The Recorder Window. 20 Starting and stopping the real-time signal display. 21 While recording is stopped… . 21 More about recording . 22 Chapter 2 The Raven Window . .23 Raven Pro 1.4 User’s Manual i About this chapter. 23 The Menu bar. 23 The File menu . 24 The Edit menu. 26 The View menu . 28 The Window menu . 30 The Tools menu . 31 The Help menu . 31 The Toolbars . 32 The file toolbar. 32 The edit toolbar . 33 The view toolbar . 34 The play toolbar. 36 The spectrogram toolbar . 37 Keyboard Shortcuts. 38 The Side Panel . 40 Docking controls . 40 Vertical separator bar . 41 Show all/Hide all . ..