KAOSS-KPV puts Korg’s legendary touch-controlled effects into a powerful new unit built for modern performers, producers and streamers. With dual-touch control, an expanded library of 270 programmes, integrated USB audio and flexible inputs for mic, line and guitar, KAOSS PAD V turns every swipe, tap and pinch into expressive, musical sound design in real time.
Whether you are sculpting vocals, mangling beats, building evolving ambient textures or adding live guitar effects, KAOSS PAD V behaves more like an instrument than a processor. It responds instantly to your gestures, lets you capture and loop ideas on the fly, and drops straight into studio, stage or streaming setups with minimal fuss.
Dual-Touch KAOSS Performance
KAOSS PAD V evolves the classic X/Y pad with dual-touch operation, letting you move multiple parameters at once for deeper, more expressive control. Sweep a filter while riding delay feedback, shift pitch into a huge reverb, or combine modulation and time-based effects in a single gesture. Each finger movement reshapes your sound in real time, opening up fluid, performance-ready sound design that feels intuitive under your hands.
Built for Studio, Stage and Streaming
Designed to slot straight into modern workflows, KAOSS PAD V offers MIC, LINE and USB inputs that can be used simultaneously. Blend vocals, instruments and computer audio into one performance hub, with a newly designed, low-noise microphone preamp for clear vocal input and a dedicated Hi-Z jack for direct guitar or bass. The integrated USB audio interface simplifies recording into your DAW, running effects on a livestream or monitoring via headphones, keeping routing clean and reliable wherever you are working.
Creative Vocal and Guitar Processing
With its dedicated Voice FX engine, KAOSS PAD V becomes a powerful vocal performance tool. Add harmonies, robotic tones, pitch-shifted layers and other expressive textures in real time, all controlled from the touchpad. Guitarists and bassists can plug straight into the high-impedance input and explore everything from ambient swells and rhythmic modulation to glitchy time-based effects and immersive reverb soundscapes, all shaped with simple fingertip control.
Sampling, Looping and KAOSS Legacy Effects
KAOSS PAD V is also a compact looping and remix workstation. Sample up to 8 bars (tempo dependent), overdub layers in real time and keep everything locked to the groove with BPM-synchronised Gate Hold. Multiple playback and slicing modes let you rearrange loops on the fly for live performance or creative production. On top of that, you get a curated collection of effects from previous KAOSS generations, combining classic filters, delays, reverbs, modulation and voice processing with modern power and customisable parameters, pad-LED colours and user presets.
Key Features
- Dual-Touch KAOSS Pad Control – Perform with two fingers at once to manipulate multiple parameters in real time. Create evolving textures by combining filter sweeps with delay, pitch with reverb, or modulation with feedback, giving you expressive, instrument-like control over your effects.
- Flexible Connectivity for Modern Setups – Use the MIC, LINE and USB inputs simultaneously to blend vocals, instruments and computer audio in one place. The balanced mic preamp and dedicated Hi-Z guitar input make it easy to integrate KAOSS PAD V into live rigs, studio sessions or streaming setups without extra boxes.
- Advanced Vocal and Guitar FX Engines – Shape your voice with harmonies, robotic effects and pitch-shifted tones, or plug in guitar and bass for ambient, rhythmic and experimental textures. Everything is controlled from the touchpad, so you can transform your sound dynamically during a performance.
- Sampling, Looping and 270 Total Programmes – Capture up to 8-bar loops, overdub layers and use BPM-synced tools to keep everything tight to the beat. With 270 programmes (170 presets and 100 user slots) including classic KAOSS effects and modern sound design tools, you have a huge palette ready to customise and recall.
Specifications
General
- Number of Programmes: 270 (170 preset programmes, 100 user programmes)
Connectors
- Output: OUTPUT L/R (phono/RCA pin jacks)
- Line Input: LINE IN L/R (phono/RCA pin jacks)
- Mic/Guitar Input: MIC/GUITAR IN (6.3 mm TRS phone jack, balanced for MIC / 6.3 mm TRS phone jack, unbalanced for GUITAR)
- Headphones: 6.3 mm stereo phone jack
- MIDI: MIDI IN, MIDI OUT
- USB: USB Type B
External Storage
- Supported Media: SD card, SDHC card
- Maximum Capacity: 32 GB
- Recommended Specification: Class 10 or higher (operation not guaranteed with all cards)
Power
- Power Supply: DC 9 V
Dimensions and Weight
- Dimensions (W x D x H): 210 x 226 x 49 mm
- Weight: 1.3 kg (excluding AC adapter)
Operating Conditions
- Operating Temperature: 0 to +40 ˚C (non-condensing)
Included Accessories
- AC adapter
- Quick Start Guide
