We are working a lot with audio recordings from songbirds in our lab. For the past decade, everybody was using a custom software called Sound Analysis Pro 2011 (SAP2011, www.soundanalysispro.com) for a plethora of tasks. The beauty of the software is, that it allows you to simultaneously run experiments (e.g. playbacks), trigger recordings and process the recorded audio files.

Now, SAP2011 has been discontinued since and we slowly start to run into compatibility issues as its 11 years old and my question thus is if anybody faces similar problems or already found ways to avoid compatibility problems without implementing hardware updates.

Or is there is an alternative software out there that we are simply not aware of that allows for a comparable functionality? I am aware of various softwares that provide comparable capabilities (e.g. Raven, Avisoft etc.) but not under the same hood.

Looking forward for all kinds of suggestions and workarounds!

We are working a lot with audio recordings from songbirds in our lab. For the past decade, everybody was using a custom software called Sound Analysis Pro 2011 (SAP2011) for a plethora of tasks. The beauty of the software is that it allows you to simultaneously run experiments (e.g. playbacks), trigger recordings and process the recorded audio files.

Now, SAP2011 has been discontinued since and we slowly start to run into compatibility issues as it's 11 years old and my question thus is if anybody faces similar problems or already found ways to avoid compatibility problems without implementing hardware updates.

Or is there is an alternative software out there that we are simply not aware of that allows for a comparable functionality? I am aware of various softwares that provide comparable capabilities (e.g. Raven, Avisoft etc.) but not under the same hood.

Looking forward for all kinds of suggestions and workarounds!

We are working a lot with audio recordings from songbirds in our lab. For the past decade, everybody was using a custom software called Sound Analysis Pro 2011 (SAP2011) for a plethora of tasks. The beauty of the software is, that it allows you to simultaneously run experiments (e.g. playbacks), trigger recordings and process the recorded audio files. Now, SAP2011 has been discontinued since and we slowly start to run into compatibility issues as its 11 years old and my question thus is if anybody faces similar problems or already found ways to avoid compatibility problems without implementing old/not updated hardware. Or if there is an alternative software out there that we are simply not aware of that allows for a comparable functionality. Of course, different softwares provide comparable power (e.g. Raven, Avisoft etc.) yet not under the same hood.

Looking forward for all kinds of suggestions and workarounds!

We are working a lot with audio recordings from songbirds in our lab. For the past decade, everybody was using a custom software called Sound Analysis Pro 2011 (SAP2011, www.soundanalysispro.com) for a plethora of tasks. The beauty of the software is, that it allows you to simultaneously run experiments (e.g. playbacks), trigger recordings and process the recorded audio files.

Now, SAP2011 has been discontinued since and we slowly start to run into compatibility issues as its 11 years old and my question thus is if anybody faces similar problems or already found ways to avoid compatibility problems without implementing hardware updates. 

Or is there is an alternative software out there that we are simply not aware of that allows for a comparable functionality? I am aware of various softwares that provide comparable capabilities (e.g. Raven, Avisoft etc.) but not under the same hood.

Looking forward for all kinds of suggestions and workarounds!