For the moments you didn't plan

I made qkit on my own and I'm based in Vilnius, Lithuania. I'm a software developer by trade and a performer at heart, qkit is where the two meet.

It all started in 2017 at a bar around midnight, watching a friend play the piano. The next morning, still buzzing, the first thing I did was buy a synthesizer. I taught myself for a year, the interest kept growing, eventually settled on an electric piano, and then watched Marc Rebillet loop live. An RC-505 and a live looping setup followed, and later - an iPad.

Since then I've spent years building my own rig: TouchOSC templates, controllers and setups that let me play without looking at a screen - all for the love of it.

Every rig ran into the same gap: no looper plugin could do what live looping really needs. qkit (pronounced “cook it”) is my answer.

I play at home, for friends and for myself, and I don't upload any of it: the moment is what matters. Building the tools is the part I suppose I love the most. I spend hours, often at night, making music, writing code and building controllers. It's my one true getaway.