App

dspk-app is a desktop workbench for long multi-channel recordings. It draws hours of signal from pyramids, and previews processing live on your GPU.

dspk-app showing 385 channels of a Neuropixels recording as traces and a heatmap

Install it with cargo install dspk-app (Linux needs a few system libraries).

Workspaces

The tabs along the top are workspaces. They share one session and one timeline.

Workspace	What it’s for
Explore	Look at the recording: traces, heatmaps, channels, timeline
Pipeline	The processing graph: recordings, operations, views and writes on a canvas
Sorting	Run the installed sorters and compare their units (Synapse plugin)
Curation	Judge a sorting: label, merge, split (Synapse plugin)
Analytics	Charts across recordings and runs; still to be built

The start screen, with Open file, Open folder and Synthetic recording

Start here

File → Open file… (Ctrl+O) for a .bin or .cbin, Open folder… (Ctrl+Shift+O) for a Zarr store, or Synthetic recording to try it with no data.
Follow Filter and inspect a recording.

Press F1 at any time for the keyboard and mouse list, and Ctrl+K for the command palette: any action, view, operation or recipe by name.