SpikeGLX Tutorial
Graphs Window Controls
Graphs Window Controls
•Explore freely –saved data not affected
•Hidden controls
•Panel layout
•Second window
•Run controls
•File controls
•Spans and filters
•Sort, ShankViewer, navigate channels
•Hover-over -> channel statistics
•Right-click menu, SpikeViewer, ColorTTL
Make wider to see hidden controls
A Graphs window shows one
or two stream panels:
L: which stream on the left
R: which stream on the right
Layout:
L= left-only
L | R = arrange horizontal
L / R = arrange vertical
Hover the cursor near edge.
Cursor will look like <-||->
Then you can resize the two
panels.
That works for L|R too.
Window::More Traces (Ctrl+T): Open 2nd Graphs window
Stop the run: [button on left], or, [close box]
Clock on left: Elapsed time since run start
File writing controls (top):
[Enable recording] [edit next file name] [<G T> = current (g,t)] [cur file length (secs)] [Save notes in next metadata]
LEDs (bottom):
Gate and trigger states (red=low, green=high)
Left oval:
- Selected channel (black rect)
- Zoom selected channel (or
double-click it)
Mid oval:
- Time span of window
- Y magnify factor
- Apply special color to selected
trace
Right oval:
- Band pass
- Subtract baseline (time averaged
value)
- Subract spacial average
- BinMax = plot min/max values in
each downsample bin
Left oval:
- Sort (arrange) channels using your
channel map
Mid oval:
- Open ShankViewer
Right oval:
- How many channels per page
- First channel on this page
- Scroll by pages:
- AP pages first
- LF pages next (if present)
- Sync on last page
Hover mouse over any channel for statistics: voltage, mean, rms, standard-dev.
Pause sweep
(Does not affect file writing)
Right click on trace -> menu:
- Send chan to audio out
- Send chan to SpikeViewer
- Disable chan
- Edit chan map
- Edit list of saved chans
- Refresh dosplay
- Open ColorTTL
ColorTTL tracks up to 4 TTL
chans. Colored stripe painted
on graphs while TTL high.
