For The Very Impatient

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For The Very Impatient (all in 15 lines)

     Go File-Open a sound file and slice it in sections.
     Locate calls with the buttons manual, auto or sample:
          Manual - left-click at the beginning and at the end of a call, then click Manual.
          Auto - go to Options - Section to set parameters for call recognition, then click Auto.
          Sample - click at the beginning and at the end of a call and once at the beginning of the next call.
     Do the same for finding pulses in the calls (no manual option).
     Or go Tools - MouseLog - Start, then right click to measure them manually.
     To filter - click on the spectrogram (left-click: low freq, right-click: high freq) and Update filter.
     To add pulses manually - left-click on each side of it (two green bars) and click Sample.
     For batch graphing go to File - Export Graphs, edit your figure, click Refresh to update the data.
     Go to Tools - Tuning Curve, open an example file, and apply it to your sound file 'on the fly'.
     As you get calls recognized, assign them to the CCA list, and then go to Tools - Cross Correlation.
     To envision an acoustic scenario quantitatively, go to Tools - Sound Math.
     If your sound file has a sequence of known amplitude, go to Tools - Amplitude Calibration.
     To know what you are doing - read the manual and some books on bioacoustics!!!

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