qkit is a live-looping plugin that records
everything you play, all the time.
Five minutes of qkit: catching a take after it's played, layering it and reshaping it, live.
Play first.
Keep the moment.
Always recording into a circular buffer of at least 192 seconds. The Record buffer setting lets it reach even further back. Heard a phrase worth keeping? Reach back and turn it into a loop, even if you never planned a take.
An innovative, purpose-built time-stretching algorithm adapts your audio in real time while preserving its original pitch.
Loops follow the host's musical clock so they stay on the beat grid as the tempo glides and changes.
Explore sync & tempo
Arm a fresh take and play. Your loops lock to the host's beat grid and stay there.
Copy a phrase. Paste it into another tape. Move audio between tapes or merge them to bring parts together.
Group tapes and shape each cassette with feedback, input and output controls, reverse and mute. Loop lengths range from 1/16 to 32 bars.
Explore tapes & layers
qkit can follow the host's tempo, set it, or work out the tempo from your first take. Works with Ableton Link.
Every layer is kept as it was recorded, so you can make a loop longer later and hear the bars that came before it.
Every action can be mapped to MIDI and is reachable over OSC with optional quantization to beats and bars. Comes with a ready-made TouchOSC template for a Tablet.
You get a main output plus 8 stereo auxiliary outputs.
Saving a project stores its settings and audio together. Opening it plays the loops back exactly as you left them.
VST3 · AU (macOS)
