MB Big Biznis has announced the release of qkit, a live-looping plugin for macOS and Windows.
qkit keeps listening to its input all the time so a loop can be taken from what you just played or recorded going forward. Each loop is a tape, locked to your DAW’s beat: it follows tempo changes and automatically corrects any drifts. It can be reversed, layered, shifted and sent to its own output.
Grab it or arm it
- Capture takes what you just played, straight from the last 1–192 seconds of input.
- Arm/Stop records a new take from now, quantized to the beat or bar – or not quantized at all.
- An optional input threshold waits for you to start playing before the take begins.
Locked to the beat
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Loops are placed by beat, so they can’t drift from your host.
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When the tempo changes, loops follow it with a built-in time-stretching that keeps the pitch, or with varispeed if you want the tape sound.
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Ableton Link support with two-way tempo: set or glide the tempo from qkit and the host follows. Loops can keep running with the transport stopped.
32 tapes, 9 outputs
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Up to 32 loops per instance, all fed from one input.
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Each loop has input, feedback and output levels, overdub layers, reverse, mute and lengths from 1/16 to 32 bars.
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Copy, move, paste and merge loops between tapes. Make a loop longer later from what it already heard.
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Groups, with their own colours, settings and routing.
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Send each tape or group to the main output or one of 8 stereo auxiliary outputs.
Hands-free control
- Everything is mappable over MIDI – learn by moving a control, with value ranges, and OSC – almost any message can be quantized to the grid.
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A built-in OSC directory lists every address and builds the messages for you.
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An extensive, custom built TouchOSC template is included.
Built for the stage
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Zero latency. The audio thread never allocates, locks or touches files, from 128 to 8192 samples.
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Projects save every loop’s audio with its settings, and your DAW session restores all of it.
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A guided tour on first launch.
Pricing & Availability
qkit is available for macOS and windows (VST3 and AU) for €69 (excl. VAT).
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