Creating A Recording Using a Text Editor
A recording file can be created using a text editor. To do this, the recording file must be formatted as described in Saving and Recalling Recordings.
For zoom files (which contain complex time data), the header of the recording file must contain, at minimum, the following header variables:
For baseband files, the header of the recording file must contain the XDelta header variable.
For a recording file that contains data for multiple channels, make sure the Y-data arrays (Y, Yn, Yn_m, etc) contain the same number of points. If a recording file where your Y-data arrays differ in length is recalled, the application truncates all excess points in the larger arrays.
The VSA can resample the data so that the sample rate to span ratio matches what the VSA algorithms expect. To enable this functionality, specify the InputSpan in the Data Header.
An easy way to learn the structure of a recording file is to create a recording, and then save the recording as an text file (.txt or .csv). Then the recording file can be viewed with any text editor.
