Mount a webcam above your keyboard. KAOS turns your hand movements into live expression — raise, lower, sweep, tilt — flowing straight into your DAW as you play. No hardware, no setup, just control. Upgrade to Pro to unlock all five gesture axes at once.
HOW IT WORKS
Aim any webcam straight down at your keyboard from ~50cm above. No special hardware needed.
Open localhost:5050 in your browser. KAOS tracks your hand instantly — no setup wizard, no configuration.
Works with Logic, Ableton, Cubase, and any DAW that reads MIDI. Assign CC 11 to any knob, fader, or parameter — it just works.
GESTURE LIBRARY
Five distinct movements, five live channels — all happening at once. Use one or all five, however your performance needs them.
Hand Sweep, Hand Reach, Openness, and Tilt require KAOS Pro.
HAND TRACKING
Every movement your hand already makes — raise, lower, sweep, reach, tilt — becomes a live MIDI signal. Five gestures, each on its own channel, all at the same time.
No gloves. No sensors. No pedals. Just your hand and a webcam above your keyboard.
PRO INTERFACE
Smooth or snappy. Curved or linear. Hair-trigger or deliberate. Six controls per axis let you dial in exactly how your gesture feels — so every movement translates into the expression you intended.
USE CASES
Works with any DAW or instrument library that responds to MIDI CC. If you can map a knob, KAOS can move it.
Swell the strings, shape the brass, breathe life into your samples — without ever lifting your hands from the keys.
Sweep a filter, twist a macro, automate in real time — all from your hand. No clicking, no reaching, just playing.
Play the swell — don't draw it. EastWest, Spitfire, and Berlin all respond to CC 11. Perform real dynamics as you record, not in the edit.
Your hands stay on the keys, your foot stays off the pedal. KAOS adds a whole new axis of expression — filter, depth, vibrato — without extra hardware.
Start free today. KAOS Pro — all 5 gesture axes — launches 1 April 2026.
Download Free Get notified at launch — £9.99 one-time →PRICING
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FEATURES
Five distinct movements, five live channels — all at the same time. Height comes free; unlock the other four with Pro.
Point each gesture at exactly the parameter you want to move. Expression, modulation, brightness, reverb — if your DAW has a knob, KAOS can drive it.
Make each gesture feel exactly right. Adjust the range, bend the curve, smooth the wobble — every axis tuned to your hand and your style.
Save and recall complete 5-axis configurations by name. Switch instantly between instruments, genres, or performance styles.
Your hand never sits perfectly still — but your MIDI output will. Jitter disappears at rest, responsiveness kicks in when you move.
Two taps to lock in your personal range — low hand to high hand, mapped to the full CC scale. Tuned to you, stays accurate.
A live readout of every CC value, frame rate, and latency in your browser. See exactly what's being sent, as it happens.
Watch your hand landmarks live during setup to nail your calibration. Switch it off once you're dialled in — nothing to see, nothing to slow down.
Plug in a webcam, open your DAW. No interface, no dongle, no extra gear — just the camera you probably already own.
Unzip, open, done. Everything runs on your Mac — no account, no cloud, no internet required after the first install.
WHAT MUSICIANS SAY
From orchestral composers to electronic producers, musicians using KAOS in the studio every day.
KAOS has genuinely changed how I work with EastWest Hollywood Strings. I'd been fighting with a foot pedal for years, and now I just raise my hand and the string swells happen exactly when I feel them. Every session now.
I've been using this in the studio with Omnisphere, recording mod rides on pad patches that used to take three passes to get right. The latency really is under 20ms and the results sit in the mix first time. Setup took under three minutes.
I run Omnisphere with four macros mapped to gesture axes and play melody with the other hand simultaneously. The filter sweep alone is worth the Pro price. No expression pedal has ever felt this natural.
I've been using this on Spitfire Audio sessions: LABS strings, Chamber Strings, the lot. The smoothing controls let me dial out any jitter and the expression rides sit perfectly in the mix. On Mac it's flawless.
I write for EastWest Composer Cloud and the string swells I get from hand height are more expressive than anything I drew in the piano roll. Occasionally catches a hiccup on very fast passages, but for slow writing it's perfect.
I shape Omnisphere textures and Spitfire Audio pads in real time: reverb tail, brightness, filter sweep, all in one take. It's replaced hours of automation drawing. Minor wish: more named preset slots.
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FROM THE BLOG
Guides, comparisons, and setup tutorials for musicians.
Leap Motion, MiMu Gloves, AirBending, and KAOS compared — which gesture MIDI controller is right for your studio and budget?
Read the article →How to control CC11 Expression and CC1 Modulation in Hollywood Strings, Hollywood Orchestra, and the full Opus library — no pedal needed.
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