Kaoss Pad

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The Kaoss Pad is a touchpad MIDI controller, sampler, and effects processor for audio and musical instruments made by Korg.

The Kaoss Pad's touchpad can be used to control its internal effects engine, which can be applied to a line-in signal or to samples recorded from the line-in. Effects types include pitch shifting, distortion, filtering, wah-wah, tremolo, flanging, delay, reverberation, auto-panning, gating, phasing, and ring modulation.

The Kaoss Pad can also be used as a MIDI controller, with the x- and y-axis positions of a finger on its pad being output via a MIDI out connection as two continuous controller streams. The sum of the x and y positions can also be output as a third continuous controller stream.

The original model, released in 1999, is known as the KP1 Kaoss Pad. Korg have since released an updated version of the Kaoss Pad, the KP2, with a number of new features, and most recently the KPE1 Kaoss Pad Entrancer - a Kaoss pad that can process both sound and video. Korg recently released a new model, the KP3, which began shipping in October 2006.