Barb and all,
On my Mac I use an Australian sonogram software program called AudioGraph.
It represents the best value for money in sonogram programs that I know of.
You can adjust the scale, use colour or black and white, stretch, compress,
zoom in for more detail. You can hear the sound while the cursor moves
across the sonogram. It is very simple to use. If you have an AIFF sound
file (shorter is better) you just drag that icon over the AudioGraph
application icon and AudioGraph automatically opens. The cost is US $25 (or
in Australia, $A 30 posted as a CD). A bargain! AudioGraph was invented by
an Australian astro-physicist, Ralph Sutherland, and the low price is to
promote the study of birdsong and natural sounds. (Ralph's father is a
well-known Australian wildlife sound recordist.)
You can download a demo version of AudioGraph off the internet, and pay via
Kagi shareware, over the net. Or the program can be sent on a CD through
the snail-mail system, if necessary. I have demonstrated a printout of this
software via the Nature Recordists Group pages, doing a comparison with
Canary, using sounds from Lang Elliott. Canary is another Mac compatible
program but it is very expensive, some hundreds of dollars I think. I can
personally recommend AudioGraph, and can vouch for its creator Ralph
Sutherland. The program is, or will be, OS X compatible, and Ralph is
currently working on the next upgrade.
Contact:
Sutherland Studios
PO Box 3849
Weston Creek PO
ACT 2611 Australia
email:
www: http://www.sutherland-studios.com.au
Hope that's a help.
Vicki Powys
Australia
on 24/3/02 8:05 AM, Barb Beck at wrote:
> Sonogram softwareHi,
>
> Can any or you Mac users help these people?
>
> I am hopelessly caught in Billy's evil empire and cannot offer any advice.
>
> Barb Beck
> Edmonton
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Elliott
> Sent: March 23, 2002 11:59 AM
> To:
> Subject: Sonogram software
>
>
> Dear Dr. Barbara Beck,
>
> Jim Bendell, retired from the University of Toronto, and I are working on a
> monograph on blue grouse. I am writing to see if you can give us some
> information about computer software for making sonograms of some of the
> vocalizations of this species. Jim Rising of the University of Toronto
> informed me that you are working with bird song and might be able to suggest
> suitable software. I work with a Macintosh and would need something
> compatible with it, the simpler the better. Can you suggest software that
> might be suitable? Any information you can give me, including prices and
> ordering information, will be greatly appreciated. Unfortunately, I do not
> have e-mail but you can contact me through Peter Elliott who is sending this
> letter.
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> Fred C. Zwickel
> Professor Emeritus
> Department of Zoology
> University of Alberta
>
> Box 81
> Manson's Landing, B.C.
> Canada V0P 1K0
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> (604) 935-6478
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