Kapture Pad allows you to take snapshots of your Ableton Live set and recall them at will. Add powerful sound-morphing capabilities to Live.
What is Kapture Pad?
Kapture Pad is an app for iPhone/iPad to control Ableton Live. It builds on the success of specialised software originally created for Richie Hawtin's Plastikman Live show. It offers a clean and easy to use iPhone/iPad interface to manage and perform with snapshots.
Two types of snapshots are available: Global Snapshots and Track Snapshots.
- Global Snapshots store mixer and device parameters for all tracks and all devices (yes, even VSTs and Audio Units).
- Track Snapshots allow morphing between four snapshots on a track using the Morph Pad – an incredible new way to perform electronic music with Live.
What can you do with Kapture Pad?
Kapture and trigger snapshots on the fly during performance, or prepare your snapshots in advance. Kapture Pad can be used in many different ways, here are just a few:
- Be more daring: First, Kapture a great loop. Then, feel free to push the envelope and really let loose with those effects. Now, one tap is all it takes to jump right back to that perfect groove!
- Performance and sound design: Get acquainted with morphing. Never before has this been possible in Ableton Live. Kapture four wildly different sounds and discover new sounds by smoothly morphing between them.
- Set the stage for each song: People often wonder how to manage many songs with different mix, instrument and effect settings in one Live set. Kapture Pad is the answer.
- DJ-style XY pad: Wondering how to raise the bar with your DJ performances? Morph effect snapshots and create your own signature sonic weapons.
- Timed chaos: trigger snapshots with clips in Live. Combine these with follow actions and you can create fantastic changes synced to the beat.
REQUIREMENTS:
Mac OS X (10.4 or later).
Window XP (SP2 recommended), Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Latest version of Live 8 (Live 8.2.x)
Note:
To use Kapture Pad you also need to install software on your computer hosting Ableton Live.
You will need to connect to this computer via Wi-Fi. This will involve correctly configuring an appropriate wireless network.
The app is priced at $5.99
4 comments:
... another controller/snapshot app? Please give me the real thing! (in this case Ableton Live for IOS). Its been three years already, and all those great music software are no where to be seen on IOS (Live, Cubase, and many other ones).
Don't tell me its because the ipad is not powerful enough. I worked with Cubase and Live on a pentium3/1gHz/512ram system and it was working perfectly. They could port software that was working fine at the time and it would be better than most of the apps released today. The 10 years old Cubase still does more than any studio/recording app made today, why?.
Will it ever happen? Or will IOS ever be filled mostly with toys apps? I'm still hoping it will.
Beatmaker2 and Nanostudio are not toys.
This looks like a lot of fun!
@Brian
Its true, but Beatmaker2 and Nanostudio are exceptions in the IOS apps ecosystem.
They are great apps, but CubaseVST5 released over 10 years ago, is still much more capable in every aspect of music creation, and ran on hardware slower than the one in ipads.
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