I see that you now have some software to control the D400 – what is the benefit of using this?

The obvious benefit is that the user can control the D400 without having to look away from or move from their computer screen when using the clear, hold or bypass controls.  However, the other advantage is that individual channels can be controlled separately from the software.  This may be of use in a rig that has 4 parallel brain slice recordings and the operator only wants to make adjustments to one of them, without affecting the other electrophysiological recordings.

The D400 software also allows the user to visualise the noise template rather than the cleaned output signal, in order to verify exactly what is being subtracted from the amplified signal of interest.