Korg Kaoss Pad KP1 1999

Used by bands like Radiohead, the Korg Kaoss Pad is a touchpad MIDI controller, sampler, and effects processor for audio and musical instruments.

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.

This was one of my favorite effects units to play with in the studio, because of how musical it is to play. Creates very unique sounds and effects.