Chirp

Guitar effects you can open, change and share.

Chirp is one effects engine that runs in your browser, in your DAW and on a pedal. Play a board of effects, open any effect to see how it's wired, remix it with credit to whoever made it, and send a link that plays it.

Open Studio Browse the effects

Staff picks: start here

See all the effects and boards →

Find a sound

One engine, three places

Here, now

In the browser

Studio plays the demo guitar, an audio file or your guitar through an audio interface. A board of eight slots, snapshots, a looper, a tuner, and an editor where effects are blocks wired together.

CLAP and VST3

In your DAW

The same effects and boards as a plugin, with every knob automatable, MIDI learn, scenes and the DAW's tempo.

In the making

On a pedal

A pedal built around a Daisy Seed, with three footswitches and a screen. Studio sends it boards over USB.

How sharing works

A link carries the whole thing

A shared board or effect lives in the link itself, so it plays the same for anyone, with nothing to sign up for.

Remixes keep their family tree

A remix names what it came from and says, in the remixer's words, what changed.

Every effect has a licence

CC BY, CC BY-SA or CC0, on every card. Credits for a whole board copy in one click.

Only blocks, never code

Effects wire built-in blocks, so a shared one can't crash or reach outside its sound, and its CPU cost is known before it plays.