How to use a Kaoss Pad 3 as a MIDI controller

Here’s a quick and dirty tutorial on how to use the Kaoss Pad 3 as a MIDI controller. If you have any ideas on how to expand it, drop me an e-mail at tim at heftyoutput dot com.

The Kaoss Pad 3 sends the following MIDI events:

One thing to note is that the Sample buttons don’t send MIDI until there’s a sample in that particular bank. It didn’t take me long to figure out, but I thought I’d mention it to save anyone headache.

Using Logic’s Environment, you can easily turn the CC #92 messages generated by touch on/off into a far more useful note on/off. The following example gives us a C1 note on touch - if you want a different note, select a different note in step 3 and 4.

#1 Open the Environment and select “Click & Ports” from the dropdown menu in the top left

#2 Create two new Transformers and wire them like so

#3 Open the first Transformer and mirror the following settings

#4 Open the second Transformer and mirror the following settings