User's Manual - Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Cornell University

Chapter 1: Getting StartedThe signal windowshows waveform,spectrogram, andspectrum views.The data loglets you saveand exportmeasurementsto other programs.The command panel provides mouse-clickcontrol of signal display and playback, includinghorizontal and vertical scaling, and showing orhiding each view.The measurement panelprovides custom-configurabledisplay of measurements inany of the three views.Figure 1. The Canary working environment, showing a signal window, thecommand panel, the measurement panel, and the data log.What Canary can doCanary 1.2 provides the following capabilities:Data acquisitionand playbackSignal editingCanary can acquire (digitize) audio data using the Macintosh’s built-in soundinput port (on most newer Macintosh models) or a third-party device such asMacRecorder. Signals can be played back at a variety of speeds.New in version 1.2:• Canary can acquire either one- or two-channel signals.• Signals can be acquired either to memory (RAM) or directly to a disk file.Canary enables you to cut, copy, paste, delete, or amplify any section of asignal with a few mouse clicks. Sections of a signal that have been cut orcopied can be pasted into any location in the same signal or into a differentsignal. New in version 1.2:• Filter selected part of a signal to eliminate energy from a specific frequencyband.2 Canary 1.2 User’s Manual