Live Recording Made Easy!

Capture™ is a digital audio multi-tracking application designed to make recording quick and easy. With the look and feel of industry-standard digital multi-track hard disk recorders, it is instantly familiar to every musician and engineer. And it uses the same high-quality audio engine as our groundbreaking Studio One^® DAW.

Capture was designed exclusively for StudioLive™-series mixers, allowing instant setup and recording directly from the mixer with no configuration. You just launch Capture, click Arm All Tracks, and click Record. At the end of the show, click Stop, save the file, and you're done! 

In addition to recording all channels of any StudioLive-series mixer, Capture allows you to record a stereo track from the StudioLive's main output, one pair of subgroup outputs, or a pair of aux sends, giving you the option to record your main mix or create a separate recording mix. When used with two daisy-chained StudioLive 16.4.2 mixers, Capture can record all 32 channels plus 2 assignable channels. (It is not possible to record from two daisy-chained StudioLive 24.4.2 mixers due to FireWire 400's inherent limitations.)

In general, the features that make a DAW a powerful tool for audio production and mixing in the studio are the very culprits that bog down a computer's performance and make for an unstable live recording environment. Capture simplifies this environment, providing only the tools necessary to record a great performance without placing huge demands on your CPU's resources.

Simple — But Not Dumbed Down

Yet as simple as Capture is, it gives you several important features. Of course you get basic transport and cut/copy/paste edit functions. But there's more. Most people prefer to record a live set straight through, hitting Record at the start of the set and stopping at the end. Capture allows you to drop markers between songs, on the fly during recording. Then you can use the markers to jump quickly to the start of the next song and to export individual songs as separate files.

You can save in any of several file formats (including WAV and OpenTL), sample rates, and bit depths, then edit your tracks in the audio software of your choice. Or save a Capture file, complete with markers, and open it for editing directly in Studio One, which is also bundled with all StudioLive mixers. Capture also enables you to stereo-link channels so you can record interleaved stereo files from linked channels on the StudioLive mixer.

You also can record in Capture, mix through the StudioLive, and then print your mix back to Capture. This allows you to take full advantage of the StudioLive's Fat Channel processing, effects, and other features during mixdown, as well as during recording. It's fast, it's easy, and the sound quality is first-rate at every stage.

↓ With Capture you can:

More Cool Capture Tricks

Another useful way to use Capture is to stream audio into the StudioLive while mixing a live show. For instance, to integrate previously recorded material into a live performance, simply bring prerecorded tracks into Capture—it can import WAV and AIFF files—and send the tracks to channels on a StudioLive while recording live audio from the other mixer channels.

Capture makes getting ready for the next show or the next artist a breeze. Let's say you recorded a band last night, and you're going to mix their show again tonight. You pull up the last session the band recorded in Capture and recall the saved StudioLive scene and Fat Channel settings. Since you can run Capture simultaneously with Virtual StudioLive™, you can set up both the Capture session and the StudioLive settings in less than minute.

Now you are ready to do a virtual soundcheck before the musicians even walk onstage. After you virtual soundcheck, all you have to do is trim your inputs and go.

The Future is Now!

It took PreSonus years to develop this tightly integrated hardware and software, and nothing else is quite like it. StudioLive and Capture are the next generation of music technology. This is where the industry is going in the second decade of the century. And you can get it now.

• Up to 34x34 multi-track recording application
• Record with two mouse clicks
• Essential editing suite (copy, cut, paste, splice, resize)
• Peak LED-style meter bridge with clip indicators
• Marker placement and recall
• Export between markers
• Record stereo mix of StudioLive mixer
• Full transport control
• Import/export individual WAV or OpenTL files
• Mac® and Windows® compatible

Computer system requirements:

Below are the minimum computer-system requirements for Capture™, Virtual StudioLive™, and Studio One™.

Windows

• Windows® XP SP3, Vista x64/x32 SP2, Windows 7 x64/x32 SP1
• Intel^® Core™ Duo or AMD Athlon™ X2 processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or AMD Athlon X4 or better recommended)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB or more recommended)

Mac

• Mac^® OS X 10.6.8 or later
• Intel Core Duo processor (Intel Core 2 Duo or Core i3 or better recommended)
• 2 GB RAM (4 GB or more recommended)

Windows and Mac Systems

• PreSonus Universal Control 1.5.3 or later
• IEEE 1394 FireWire 400 Port
• Internet connection recommended
• DVD-ROM drive
• Internal or external 7200 RPM storage drive highly recommended
• Monitor with 1024x768 resolution

The minimum system requirements may differ for DAWs other than Studio One. Please check the requirements for your DAW of choice with its manufacturer.

Note that the speed of your processor, amount of RAM and size and speed of your hard drive will greatly affect the overall performance of your recording system. Also, a more powerful system (faster processor with more RAM) will allow for lower latency (signal delay) than you might experience while monitoring audio or MIDI signals. Monitor resolution for both PC and Macintosh should be no lower than 1024x768 pixels.