Analyzing Your Recordings

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.

• Separate distinct sounds from periods of silence. Generate a table of sound occurrences and add notes on each sound entry.

• Visualize your recordings as spectrograms.

• Listen to your recordings with options for altered playback pitch and bandpass filtering.

• 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/song-meter-mini-family. 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 Mini Bat 2 creates standard .wav files and zero-crossing (.zc) files. Many types of audio analysis and editing software support .wav files, but note that not all audio software supports the high sample rates required for full-spectrum, ultrasonic recordings. Zero-crossing files are generally supported by bat-call analysis software.