Step 6: setting playbacks
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Step 6 – set playbacks


Go to the “Playbacks List” tab.
Setting passive playbacks: if you want playbacks to occur without an operant action, click Add on the top of list 1 or list 2, and use the popup menu to add sounds. When “passive” check list 1, the highlighted sound in list one will be played according to the ‘playbacks criteria’: click the ‘playbacks quota’ tab, check ‘passive playbacks. Then for each channel you want to use for playbacks check and set the odds and playbacks hours as shown below. 

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Setting operant playbacks: If you installed a National Instruments digital IO card and appropriate detectors (e.g., keys) in the cages, you should now set the operant playbacks. For each channel you will see a playbacks setting menu, which corresponds to the graphic display of the keys (you can see them in the main tab when ‘Train’ is pushed down.  As shown, the left circle is detector 1, a virtual display of the physical key located in the cage. Playbacks can be triggered by activation of a detector (such as a key, or motion detector), or passively. The two lists can be filled with one or several wave file by clicking ‘Add’. To remove a wave file from a list click on the file and press the ‘delete’ (in the keyboard).
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Note: if the key is blue that means that playback are not active. This could be because the playbacks list is empty or because training session is not currently active. Click the ‘playbacks quota’ tab and set the training session times:

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Testing the playbacks: There is a “Play” button below each channel that allows you to test if playbacks really work. You can only click Play when the engine is started! Go to the main tab and click “Start”. Also, make sure that the volume (Vol) is turn to the right: graphic
  

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