Software
The DSG comes with two software utilities, DSGschedule and DSG2wav, for programming and using the data stored on the DSG. These require Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7.
DSGschedule
DSGschedule is used to configure recording sessions prior to deployment of the DSG recorder.
Features
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Set Duty Cycle (duration and interval) of recordings.
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Block scheduling enables nesting of different recording schemes. For example if you were interested in a dawn chorus, one could record 10 s every 10minutes all day long, and 10 s every minute from 5 am-7 am.
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Record for all or parts of a day.
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Stutter recording allows 'lossy' compression of acoustic data. Useful for detecting frequency modulated signals, because spectrogram can be calculated from stutter recording.
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Arbitrary sample rate
Typical Recording Schedules
| On (s) | Interval (min) | Sample Rate (kHz) | Stutter | Battery Packs (of 8) |
Days to Fill 16 GB |
| 10 | 1 | 20 | off | 1 | 27 |
| 10 | 1 | 40 | off | 1 | 13 |
| 10 | 10 | 20 | off | 3 | 277 |
| 10 | 10 | 40 | off | 2 | 138 |
| 10 | 1 | 40 | 5 ms/51 ms | 5 | 139 |
| 10 | 1 | 80 | 5 ms/51 ms | 3 | 69 |
| 10 | 3 | 40 | 5 ms/51 ms | 7 | 417 |
| continuous | 5 | off | 4 | 18 | |
| continuous | 20 | off | 1 | 4 |
DSG2wav
DSG2wav will convert .dsg to .wav files. This process removes the DSG header and timing information from the files to create the .wav files.
Software Download
Updated 3 June 2010DSGschedule and DSG2wav as zipped installation (DSGsetup.zip). Also includes latest DSG firmware.
DSGschedule is used to generate the settings and schedule files that are stored on the SDHC card to control the recording of the DSG.
DSG2wav converts DSG files to wav files. DSG files contain internal time stamps that are stripped out in the process of creating wav files.