Kaoss Pad

The Kaoss Pad is a touchpad MIDI controller, sampler, and furnishings processor for audio and agreeable instruments, fabricated by Korg.

The Kaoss Pad's touchpad can be acclimated to ascendancy its centralized furnishings engine, which can be activated to a line-in arresting or to samples recorded from the line-in. Furnishings types accommodate angle shifting, distortion, filtering, wah-wah, tremolo, flanging, delay, reverberation, auto-panning, gating, phasing, and arena modulation.

The Kaoss Pad can additionally be acclimated as a MIDI controller, with the x- and y-axis positions of a feel on its pad actuality achievement via a MIDI out affiliation as two connected ambassador streams. The sum of the x and y positions can additionally be outputted as a third connected ambassador stream.

The aboriginal model, appear in 1999, is the KP1 Kaoss Pad. Korg has back appear adapted versions of the Kaoss Pad: the KP2, with a cardinal of fresh features; the KPE1 Kaoss Pad Entrancer, a Kaoss pad that can action both complete and video; and the KP3, which began aircraft in October 2006

Entrancer

In the bounce of 2007, Korg appear a newer adaptation of the Kaoss Pad, advantaged the mini-KP. This fresh Kaoss Pad was based on the KP3, application abounding of the aforementioned capital elements. As the name suggests, the mini-KP is a abate admeasurement adaptation of its big brother, the KP3. The mini-KP offers 100 effects/programs and two anamnesis banks. It may be powered by 4 AA batteries so that users can absolutely advance the portability of the mini-KP. However, the mini-KP does not accept MIDI output, and its touchpad does not accept a display.

Korg apparent a fresh Kaoss Pad, the Kaoss Pad Quad, during Winter NAMM 2011. It is able to action four furnishings at once, admitting it does not accept MIDI output

Users

Matt Bellamy of Muse has XY Pads agnate to the ones in Kaoss Pad's congenital into some of his guitars which he uses as midi controllers to ascendancy a KP2 while arena guitar.

Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead uses a Kaoss Pad on alive performances of "Everything In Its Right Place". He samples Thom Yorke's vocals and makes loops which he distorts and manipulates.

Beardyman uses the Kaoss Pad extensively; his alive performances abide of annihilation but his voice, sampled and adapted through up to eight Kaoss Pads.

John Linnell of They Might Be Giants uses both a KP2 and KP3 in alive performances and in a consciousness-expanding architecture affection he refers to as "The Future of Sound."

Brian Molko of Placebo acclimated a KP2 during alive performances of "English Summer Rain".

Roughton "Rou" Reynolds of Enter Shikari uses both KP2 and KP3 in best songs.

Vadim Pruzhanov of Power Metal bandage DragonForce uses a Kaoss Pad during alive performances.

Nels Cline of Wilco uses a Kaoss Pad during alive performances.

Gibby Haynes of Butthole Surfers uses a KP3 during alive performances.

Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter of Phantogram use a Kaoss Pad each, during alive performances.

Brian Weitz of Animal Collective uses a Kaoss Pad during alive performances