Once open, you can then use your computer keyboard or a Midi controller to jam out ideas depending on which Captain Plugin you’ve added. The way it works is you add a Captain Plugin of your choice into an empty track that can receive Midi data (such as a Midi track in Ableton Live). I downloaded Captain Plugins to my laptop, fired up Ableton Live, activated the plugins and got to work.Ĭaptain Plugins are used within your digital audio workstation.

Think of each of these plugins as “production aids” that speed up your composition and idea-generation workflow – kind of like Odesi on steroids for each individual aspect of the production: drums, chords and melodies.Ĭaptain Hook and Captain Beat are still in development at the time of this writing. They work with each other inside your DAW, meaning you can’t use them standalone.Ĭaptain Plugins takes the concept of Odesi further by introducing a collection of plugins that specialise in helping you with quickly come up with chords (Captain Chords), melodies (Captain Melody, Captain Hook), basslines (Captain Deep) and beats (Captain Beat).

Captain Plugins is made up of a handful of different apps that specialise in helping you come up with different parts of your production quickly. Odesi is like a musical sketchpad, allowing you to easily build and capture music ideas that you can then flesh out later in your chosen digital audio workstation. Captain Plugins comes from the same creators of “helper” DJ apps liked Mixed In Key and Platinum Notes, which help you build playlists and tag / tidy up your DJ library, along with Odesi, which is one of our favourite apps for DJ/producers.

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