Analyzing Your Recordings
The recordings produced by the Song Meter Micro 2 are compatible with Wildlife Acoustics' Kaleidoscope Pro Sound Analysis Software and with a broad range of other audio analysis, processing, and editing software.
Kaleidoscope Lite
Kaleidoscope Lite is the free version of our professional sound analysis software, Kaleidoscope Pro. In Kaleidoscope Lite, you can perform many useful functions with your recordings.
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Separate distinct sounds from periods of silence. Generate a table of sound occurrences and add notes on each sound entry.
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Visualize your recordings as spectrograms.
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Listen to your recordings with options for altered playback pitch and bandpass filtering.
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Convert recordings between formats.
Kaleidoscope Lite and Kaleidoscope Pro are the same piece of software, which can be downloaded for free from our website: https://www.wildlifeacoustics.com/account/downloads/sm-micro. By default, only the Kaleidoscope Lite features are enabled, and you can use the software for as long as you would like. You can find video tutorials on the features available in Kaleidoscope LIte on our website.
Kaleidoscope Pro
Kaleidoscope Pro Sound Analysis Software allows you to quickly sort, label, and identify bird songs, frog calls, bat echolocations, and more from weeks, months, or even years of recordings. Whether you are conducting species inventory, presence/absence surveys, endangered species detection or habitat health monitoring, Kaleidoscope Pro significantly minimizes the time it takes to find what you’re looking for. Download it from our website's Downloads page and request a two-week trial of the full set of features from the Kaleidoscope Pro Trial page.
Third-Party Software
The Song Meter Micro 2 creates standard .wav files that can be opened with most audio editing and analysis applications. The audio application must be able to support the sample rate of the recorded file.