Igor Pro 9 Released

Share icon

WaveMetrics is pleased to announce the release of Igor Pro 9, the latest version of our scientific and engineering graphing and data analysis program for Windows and Macintosh. Igor Pro 9 contains hundreds of improvements including 34 new operations and 24 new functions.

See our highlights page for screenshots of many of these new features.

Some highlights of Igor Pro 9 include:

  • Autosave has been added with user options to control for the frequency and granularity of saving.
  • New built-in HDF5 support: Igor experiments can now be saved as HDF5 files, and you can open and browse multiple HDF5 files and convert the data into Igor native formats. Igor Pro 9 can still read files created by all earlier versions of Igor and defaults to saving packed experiments using the .pxp file format used by previous versions.
  • Complex curve fitting has been implemented.
  • Major update of the MultiPeak Fit package. The functions that were previously provided by the PeakFunctions2 XOP are now built-in.
  • For those times when a user-defined panel is just a bit too small to read easily or a bit too big to fit your laptop's screen, you can make that panel bigger or smaller using Igor 9's new Panel→Expansion submenu.
  • Box Plots and Violin Plots now support per-dataset properties and allow you to control the color, marker and marker size of each individual data point.
  • Igor's PDF export now supports transparency and improved font embedding.
  • Improved editing of Polygons and Beziers.
  • The new Presentation Table Procedures package allows you to programmatically create a "presentation table" in a graph, layout or control panel window.
  • Command completion now includes user-defined functions.
  • Faster procedure compile time.
  • Improved text processing performance.
  • Added automatic multithreading in CWT, ImageRegistration, Interp3DPath, norm and ImageFilter.
  • Igor supports sparse matrices through the new MatrixSparse operation. It uses the Intel Math Kernel Library Sparse BLAS routines and employs the libraries terminology and conventions. A sparse matrix in Igor is represented by a set of three 1D waves which define the non-zero elements of the matrix. Igor supports three sparse matrix representation formats: COO, CSC, and CSR. Sparse matrix operations in include matrix addition, multiplication, and TRSV which solves a system of linear equations.
  • Agglomerative hierarchical cluster analysis has been added with the new HCluster operation.
  • The ability to drag waves from the Data Browser onto a graph to make new traces has been enhanced. New active areas allow you to append traces to specific axes and to make new free axes, as well as select a wave as an X wave. Also, it is now possible to drag waves onto graphs and tables from the Waves in Window list of the Window Browser.
  • 29 new MatrixOP functions: spliceCols, zapNaNs, zapINFs, addRows, addCols, waveX, waveY, waveZ, waveT, DecimateMinMax, Select, SQ, VarBeams, SumND, KronProd, bitReverseCol, setColsRange, layerStack, maxMagAB, minAB, minMagAB, gammaln, gamma, expIntegralE1, greaterOrEqual, log2, normP, oneNorm, and expm.
  • Added functions vectorization and optimized memory allocation in MatrixOP.

For more information see the comprehensive list of new features.

Igor Pro 9 is a paid upgrade from previous Igor Pro versions. You can purchase an upgrade from the WaveMetrics online store. A demo version is available and can be installed without the need to uninstall previous versions of Igor Pro.

If you purchased an Igor Pro 8 license or upgrade on or after September 1, 2020, you are eligible for a free upgrade. If you have not already received your Igor Pro 9 activation information, please contact sales@wavemetrics.com. Make sure to provide information we can use to identify your order, such as your Igor Pro serial number or WaveMetrics order number.

IGOR PRO 9 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Macintosh: macOS 10.13 and 10.14 fully supported.  Igor Pro 9 runs on macOS 10.15 (Catalina) and 11.0 (Big Sur) but see this discussion of caveats and known issues.
Windows: Windows 7 or greater, 64-bit and 32-bit Igor Pro applications are installed