Somewhere in the long tradition of tools that exist mainly to stop producers finishing anything, a new one has arrived. It is called YPC, it lives at ypc2000.fun, it costs nothing, and it does something delightfully simple: it takes a YouTube video and lays it out across your computer keyboard like an MPC.
It is not really a plugin, more a browser toy that behaves like a piece of hardware. Paste in a link, and sixteen pads are assigned to random timestamps within the video. Hit the keys, or click with the mouse, and you are chopping. That is the whole pitch, and it works. The default load is Imogen Heap’s Hide and Seek, which…
