Kaoss Pad: Touch-Controlled Multi-Effect Plugin by KORG

The main interface is a touch pad you can play with a mouse or trackpad. Select one of the preloaded programs and move across the pad to change the sound. You can also drive effects from a hardware controller that sends MIDI CC, such as an XY pad controller, or send MIDI note on/off to trigger positions on the pad like a keyboard.

DAW automation is supported, so pad movements can be recorded and played back, and automation can be drawn by hand for changes that are hard to perform live.

An edit page lets you build your own effect programs. Up to five effects can run at once in one program. Each effect's parameters can be controlled by four LFOs, four envelope generators, two envelope followers, an XY pad and other modulators, with drag-and-drop mapping and per-parameter depth and polarity settings.

The 25 effect algorithms cover spatial effects such as reverb and delay, modulation effects such as chorus and flanger, filter effects such as filter, isolator and equalizer, and digital effects such as grain shifter, impulse response, pitch shifter, ring modulator, vinyl break, looper and vocal processor. An analog oscillator algorithm generates its own sound.

The vocal processor lets you sing or add vocals over played-back samples, which can be useful for building beats with vocals inside the plugin. The plugin includes 128 built-in effect programs that combine up to five algorithms each.