Documentation

Getting Started with Chirps

First launch, microphone permissions, navigating the interface, and making your first recording.

Live Spectrogram

How the real-time spectrogram works, colour palettes, GPU renderer, and dynamic range.

Live Waveform

The amplitude-over-time waveform display, colour styles, and when to use it alongside the spectrogram.

Audio Input & Hardware

Connecting USB microphones and audio interfaces, sample rate negotiation, channel selection, and input gain.

Monitoring

Passthrough and heterodyne monitoring modes, output routing, haptic feedback, and background streaming.

Recording

Starting recordings, pre- and post-trigger buffers, the ring buffer, recording destinations, and WAV file format.

Data Review & Export

Browsing recorded files, the Data Review interface, colour tags, spectrogram export, trimming, and deleting files.

Session Notes

Using Chirps session notes to track recordings, keep markdown field notes, and sync them with your recording folders.

Settings Reference

Complete reference for every setting in Chirps — Input, Output, Haptic, Layout, Recording, and Diagnostics.