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Online Training Course

Expand and deepen your knowledge of data acquisition and analysis with LabChart 8 through our online training course.

 

An ideal resource for those wishing to learn in their own time and pace, or looking for an option to train lab staff when social distancing is in place. This course is an online version of our 2-day in person training option via our own active learning educational platform, Lt. Course content includes:

  • Data acquisition basics
  • Filtering and smoothing
  • Using Chart, Scope and Spectrum Views
  • Advanced analysis features, such as Macros and Arithmetic
  • Training on each of the LabChart Pro advanced modules

A comprehensive and interactive way to unlock the meaning of your data.

Each lesson contains:

  • Learning objectives
  • Technique / feature overviews
  • Video-directed exercises with demo files
  • Interactive questions and answers

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LabChart 8.0.1 (Windows)

General

  • Behavior when editing parameter values in the Stimulator dialog and panel has been improved.
  • Behavior when editing values in the Stimulator Customize dialog has been improved.
  • Improved reliability when placing the Marker at the cursor position (rather than clamping to the trace) in the Scope View.
  • The Data Pad top row now updates correctly when an HRV analyze selection is performed.

Chart View

  • The Chart View now scrolls in response to the mouse wheel.
  • The Chart View now scrolls horizontally when it has focus and the left or right arrow keys are used.
  • Available channels now all appear in the Add Comment channel list while recording
  • Beep sound when the user hits the Enter key to add a comment while sampling has been removed.
  • Edit | Clear Channel functionality is now available when the Chart View has focus.
  • Guidelines can now be configured in settings files.

Macros

  • The correct macro code is now generated when recording adding a comment.
  • Additional macro support has been added to Preset Comments.
  • An additional ‘Position’ parameter has been added to the Digital Input-based script events to allow higher accuracy when positioning comments.

Export

  • LabChart now allows the export of channel names with up to 10 characters to Axon. In order to get 10 characters the export needs to be in pClamp9 format.
  • Improved behavior to ensure the resulting data range is correct when exporting a mix of selected channels with widely differing data ranges

Data Pad Plots

  • Improved reliability when a Data Pad Plots scale is adjusted using the Set Scale option while LabChart is sampling.
  • Improved drawing performance of Data Pad Plots.
  • Histogram Plots now have an option for calculating the bin parameters automatically.
  • LabChart shortcut keys now work correctly when a Data Pad Plots view has focus.
  • Plots now work with Data Pad values created from the Comment Number and Scope Page Number calculations.
  • Auto Scale and Continuous Auto Scale toolbar buttons can now be used for individual Plots.

LabChart 8.0.6 (Mac)

General

LabChart for Mac now correctly applies custom channel names when opening a LabChart settings file.

Channel Calculations

  • Improved the performance for large files using complex Channel Calculations on the Mac.
  • Improved the accuracy of the Spectral Edge Frequency Data Pad and Channel Calculations.
  • Improved reliability when sampling many short blocks using event related Channel Calculations.

Chart and Scope View

  • Improved the behavior when renaming Scope pages on Mac.
  • Chart View now displays sampling speed and gain ranges when the mouse is over the right-hand parameters region.
  • The maximum allowed time compression for the Chart and Scope Views has been increased to 500k:1.
  • Saving as ADIDAT now supports saving the Chart View selection range. This is the same behavior as Saving as ADICHT.
  • Improved reliability when using Multiple Add to Data Pad to add data using comments on an averaged page in Scope View.

Sampling

  • Improved behavior to disallow opening Sampling Dialog in Analysis Mode.
  • Improved reliability to ensure the Disk Buffer Recovery process recovers all available data after a power failure while sampling.
  • Improved behavior when the default Stimulator settings are used to ensure the Stimulator starts at the start of each new block in repetitive fixed duration sampling mode.

LabChart 8.0.10 (Windows)

General

  • LabChart is now fully compatible with Windows 10.
  • Improved the Chart View behavior to ensure the Range Menu is enabled in the new channels when they are added from a second device in the Devices and Channels Dialog.

LabChart 8.1.1 (Windows)

General

  • Improved support for users who are running LabChart with guest or network-based Windows user accounts.
  • Improved Activation behavior when LabChart is run on a machine having two or more hardware network devices.
  • Saving the selection from a GLP signed document is more robust.

Chart and Scope View

  • Channels in the Chart View are no longer sometimes drawn blank after comments are added while sampling.
  • Improved behavior when deleting pages from the Scope view if the Chart view is closed.

LabChart 8.1.4 (Windows)

Equivital

Added support for Equivital 02 LifeMonitor. To record from Equivital 02 LifeMonitor devices, the Equivital LifeMonitor Device Enabler must also be installed.

The Equivital 02 LifeMonitor streams data directly to LabChart, and supports ECG, Respiration, Temperature and XYZ Accelerometry signals recorded from Human subjects. The device can also capture GSR, SP02, Core Temperature, Skin patch temperature with supported ancillary devices.

SimpleFileSDK

The LabChart installer now includes the latest version (1.0.2) of SimpleFileSDK. This version works with LabChart data files created with LabChart 8.1 or later.

LabChart 8.1.7 and 8.1.8 (Mac)

General

  • Fixed an issue where some views couldn’t be copy-and-pasted into other applications.
  • Stimulator interval can now be specified in milliseconds.
  • Fixed an issue where the input amplifier dialog would reset its scale to default after any setting was changed.
  • Fixed an issue where Data Pad’s channel value calculations were sometimes out by a constant factor. This could happen when making selections in the Scope view and a background page had been specified.
  • Fixed issue where Bioamp Dialog could display combinations of Low pass and High pass filter settings that were not supported by the hardware.

LabChart 8.0.5 (Windows)

  • Improved behavior to ensure LabChart always exits cleanly.
  • The Display Settings dialog now includes a Help button.
  • DVM windows now update to show the correct value even when the corresponding channel has been collapsed (hidden).