Raven Pro

Raven Pro is the tried and true application for bioacoustics analysis that we are retiring this year. Downloads will be available until at least 2028.

Buying and Installing Raven Pro

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Signal Calibration

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Signal calibration allows Raven Pro to report sound pressure or power in absolution units like micropascals or dB re: 20 micropascal.Otherwise, pressure and power will be reported in arbitrary, dimensionless units.

New Features (Not in Manual)

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Summary of Raven Pro features added since the last edition of the Raven Pro User's Manual was published in 2010.

Detection

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Documentation for Raven Pro's automated sound detectors, including documentation not included in the Raven Pro User's Manual.

Spectrograms

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Guide to making beautiful, useful spectrograms and spectrogram theory, including how to maximize spectrogram resolution.

Raven Pro Documentation

Introduction In 2010, we stopped keeping up the Raven Pro User’s Manual because it was too time-consuming and expensive given...

Raven Video Tutorials

Introduction to the most widely used features in Raven Pro.

Sound Window Presets

Introduction When you install Raven Pro the default window preset, “Default 1.3 Power”, causes all sounds to open with a...

Automated Measurements

Introduction Documentation for automated measurements in Raven Pro can be found in several places. This article is intended as a...

Measurement Presets

Introduction If you find yourself adding the same set of measurements over and over again, you may benefit from using...

Playback Volume Control

Introduction With Raven Pro 1.6.2 we introduced a playback volume control that allows users to hear playback for low-intensity sounds...

Band Filter

Introduction Raven allows you to filter out or filter around a selected frequency band in a sound. When you filter...

Save All Selections In Current Table

Introduction One of the most powerful way of making sound clips in Raven is to save all the selection in...

Keyboard Shortcuts

Note: The effect of some shortcuts depend on what is visible in Raven. A few depend on the last think...

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