BatSound® Touch is a sound recording and analysis software which provides high-resolution real-time spectrograms and is very easy to use with touch screen Windows tablet PCs. It has resizable text and buttons to facilitate operation on devices with virtually any screen size.
BatSound Touch is compatible with the popular M500 or M500-384 USB microphone. A Windows tablet PC with BatSound Touch and the M500 makes an easy to use and powerful bat detector with real-time audio as well as real-time spectrogram. BatSound Touch can also be used on computers without a touch screen.
Typical workflow would be to use BatSound Touch as the recording app for the M500 microphone (other USB ultrasonic microphones may be used such as Dodotronic, etc.). Site metadata is entered directly into the app and saved with each .wav file. GPS data is automatically saved if available. For active recording the user may reject undesirable files directly onscreen. If used passively, for example set at a mist net site for a time and trigger thresholds are low, undesirable noise files may be generated which can be removed using the SonoBat Data Wizard. For species suggestions, the data can then be batch processed in SonoBat 4 then manually vetted for species confirmation.
BatSound Touch is also available in a 'Lite' version with limited functionality. This version is available free of charge to M500 owners. Request a copy by emailing a request directly to Pettersson for the latest version!
The BatSound® Touch coupled with the Pettersson M500 USB-power microphone is ideal for:
- Education programs
- Voucher calls
- Active monitoring and selective recording
- Mobile transects, compatible with Myotisoft Transect
- Short term passive recording where a tablet/netbook may be deployed
- Compatible with SonoBat for full spectrum call analysis
Pettersson BatSound® Touch Highlights:
- Touch screen support.
- Windows 7, 8 and 10 compatible, Mac via Parallels
- High-resolution real-time spectrogram and waveform display.
- Supports the Pettersson M500 USB Microphone as well as standard Windows sound devices.
- Manual, triggered and circular buffer recording modes.
- Live audio of transformed ultrasound.
- Saves GPS coordinates in the sound files.
- Compressed view to fit more bat calls into a single screen.
- Resizable text and buttons to fit screens of different sizes.
- User-definable file metadata.
- Various color schemes to fit different occasions.
Available as an Instant Download . . . you will receive an immediate email with a download link and unique software serial number.
Please check your spam/junk mail folder for an email from: Your Instant Download from Bat Conservation and Management
System Requirements
The following free add-on packages are required for BatSound Touch, if they are already not installed on your system. If :
Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 (already included in Windows 8/8.1)
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013
Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable Package for Visual Studio 2013 is available in a 32-bit (x86) and a 64-bit (x64) version. If your have a Windows 32-bit operating system, install the x86 version, if you have a 64-bit Windows version, install both the x86 and x64 versions.