Hardware Companion
Signal Recorder SR-7 is a powerful standalone audio recorder. But when paired with the teenage engineering TP-7 or other dedicated hardware recorders, it becomes the missing piece — turning raw audio files into a searchable, transcribed, AI-enriched archive.
Why it works
The TP-7 is a beautiful piece of hardware — a portable recorder that captures 24-bit WAV audio with tactile, distraction-free controls. But high-quality audio files sitting on a device are just files. They have no titles, no transcripts, no way to search through them.
SR-7 bridges that gap. Transfer recordings from your hardware to your Mac, then import them into SR-7 via drag-and-drop or the Import menu. SR-7 handles the rest — on-device transcription, AI-generated titles and summaries, full-text search, project organization, and Markdown export. Every recording becomes as useful as one made directly in SR-7.
TP-7 Setup Guide
The TP-7 has a dedicated memo button on its side. Press it and the device starts recording immediately — even from a powered-off state. Memo recordings always use the internal microphone and are stored separately from regular multitrack recordings, keeping voice captures neatly organised.
In later TP-7 firmware versions, the memo button still starts a recording as before, but Memo as a dedicated mode is turned off by default. We recommend enabling it in the TP-7 settings so voice memos are stored separately from other recordings — this makes it much easier to find and import them.
These quick voice memos are exactly the kind of recording that benefits most from transcription and AI summaries. Import them into SR-7 and they become searchable, titled, and summarised automatically.
Use teenage engineering's Field Kit app to mount the TP-7, then drag audio files into SR-7 or use File › Import Audio to select them. SR-7 will automatically transcribe them, generate AI titles and summaries, and make them fully searchable in your library. Just like any recording made directly in SR-7.
Beyond the TP-7
SR-7 can import audio from any recorder. Copy the files to your Mac, then drag them into SR-7 or use the Import menu. Field recorders, voice recorders, phones, USB drives.
Supported import formats include WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, AAC, CAF, FLAC, and ALAC. Uncompressed formats are transcoded to high-quality AAC on import; compressed formats are kept as-is.
SR-7
A native audio recorder for macOS and iOS with on-device transcription, AI summaries, and a built-in MCP server.
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