Recording & capture

Aconite is a performance instrument. You improvise hands-free against generated harmony — the arpeggiator, the chord lane, the probability filter all throwing ideas — and the best passages arrive unplanned. Recording and Capture last take make sure a phrase you love doesn’t vanish the moment it passes. No DAW required: capture straight from the standalone app to an audio file.

Two ways to capture

Record

Arm ● REC, play, and hit stop. Everything from arm to stop is written to a WAV file. It’s exactly what you played — one real, one-time take, which is the whole point of a generative instrument. When you stop, reverb and delay tails are allowed to ring out for a moment so the ending isn’t chopped.

Capture last take

This is the one that fits how you actually play. Aconite is always quietly remembering the last ~45 seconds of output. When the engine throws a phrase you love, press ⟲ Capture last take — after it has already happened — and those seconds are written to their own file. You don’t have to have been recording, and you don’t have to react in time: the moment is already captured, you’re just choosing to keep it. It’s the “keep the good bit” button.

Capture last take also has a keyboard shortcut, so you can grab a take with zero mouse travel — even while your hands are on the keys.

Where it lives

Recording controls sit in a slim transport strip directly above the keyboard: the ● REC button (its dot blinks red while recording), an elapsed timer, a live left/right output meter, and the ⟲ Capture last take button. It’s placed where your hands already are during a take, so reaching for it never breaks your flow.

Prefer a cleaner face? The strip is completely hideable. Open the Options gear (top of the window) and switch off Record strip — it disappears and the keyboard reclaims the space. The Capture-last-take keyboard shortcut keeps working even when the strip is hidden, so you lose nothing but the clutter. The strip is shown by default in the standalone app.

The files you get

WAV, at your session sample rate, in stereo.
24-bit by default — clean, musical, and compact. Choose 32-bit float if you want the exact internal signal with no ceiling and no rounding.
Saved to ~/Music/Aconite Renders/ (created for you), named after the patch and the moment: PatchName_YYYYMMDD_HHMMSS.wav. You can pick a different folder from the Save dialog.
Optional Normalize on finish (brings the peak up to −1 dBFS). Off by default, so your raw performance level is preserved.

If your disk can’t keep up during a long take, a small dropout indicator tells you honestly rather than silently spoiling the file.

Good to know

Recording never changes your sound. It’s a read-only tap on the final output, so the file is exactly what you heard — the same whether you were recording or not.
Realtime recording is a free feature. Faster-than-realtime offline bounce (for reproducible patch previews) is planned separately.