Canary Users Manual

Canary The Cornell Bioacoustics Workstation Version 1.2 User’s Manual Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology Ithaca, New York Copyright notice Canary 1.2 software, the Canary 1.2 User’s Manual , and example sounds Copyright © 1993, 1995, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. All rights reserved. Bioacoustics Research Program Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd. Ithaca, NY 14850 USA Information: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp/ User forum: http://canary.RavenSoundSoftware.com Trademarks Apple, the Apple logo, ImageWriter, LaserWriter, Macintosh, PlainTalk, Powerbook, and Quadra are registered trademarks, and Finder is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. Disk Doubler is a trademark of Salient Software, Inc. RAM Doubler is a trademark of Connectix, Inc. DiskTop and QuicKeys are trademarks of CE Software. Compact Pro is a trademark of Bill Goodman. Flash-It is a trademark of Nobu Toge. MacRecorder is a registered trademark, and SoundEdit is a trademark of Macromedia, Inc. MATLAB is a trademark of The MathWorks, Inc. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. StuffIt is a trademark of Aladdin Systems, 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 Laboratory of Ornithology make no claims regarding the performance of these products. Credits Canary and the Canary User’s Manual were developed under NSF grants BIR 8915149 and BIR 9211761 (Principal Investigator: Christopher W. Clark), with additional support from the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and the Higher Education Development Program of Apple Computer, Inc. Canary was written by Steve Mitchell, Sean Cunningham, Jamie McClellan, and Jacob Montgomery. The Canary User’s Manual was written by Russell A. Charif with contributions by Steve Mitchell and Christopher W. Clark. Cover artwork by Cynthia J. Page. The Canary development project is under the general direction of Christopher W. Clark. Citation The correct bibliographic citation for this manual is as follows: Charif, RA, S Mitchell, and CW Clark. 1995. Canary 1.2 User’s Manual. Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY. Contents Preface Welcome to Canary 1.2................................................ 1 What Canary is............................................................................ 1 What Canary can do ................................................................... 2 Data acquisition and playback ...................................................…