04.19.09

KAOSS PAD3

Posted in Development, Graphics at 7:32 pm by Twm

I’ve had a Kaoss Pad KP3 for a couple of years now. It’s a ‘hands on’ audio effects processor which has a touch pad that can be operated by fingers.
see the video below to get an idea:

The KP3 supports a MIDI out facility which pumps out MIDI events in response to touch pad or knob twist events. I’ve been meaning to write a driver program for this as I think there are some interesting possibilities in the field of live audio and video effects at events.

I quickly wrote a Processing program to listen for the MIDI events.
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