Multi-touch controller

Build your controller.

Zonea is a multi-touch custom controller. Design your own layout with faders, knobs, buttons, encoders, XY pads, VU meters, video monitors, and more. Perform with a controller built exactly for your workflow. No hardware limits. No fixed layouts. Skin it any way you want and connect it to any software that supports MIDI and other protocols.

From live stages to studios and experimental setups, Zonea adapts to your workflow and scales with your needs. Stable, fast, and built for demanding environments where reliability matters.

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Available now for Windows. Windows on ARM, macOS and Linux arrive in October, and one license covers them all.

See Zonea in action

One-take dub improvisation by The Dub Factory, launching clips and looping in Bitwig. One of many ways to play Zonea.

Built to perform. Yours to design

Instant launch, glass-smooth touch, every tap lands instantly. Drive your whole rig from multiple touchscreens at once, each running its own instance, and build whatever you want across up to 144 fully customizable pages.

Sends MIDI, hotkeys and OSC, controls OBS Studio directly, fires HTTP commands, and shines on 120 fps+ touch displays with a high touch-polling rate, while still running flawlessly on standard 60 fps touchscreens.

A floating editor you can drag to any monitor keeps your canvas always within reach, lay out, color, and fine-tune every control in real time, right where it’s most comfortable to work. Mix and match buttons, sliders, pads, encoders and knobs to build and control exactly what you need.

See what you control

Zonea’s unique External UI feature lets you capture any vital region of an application, your DJ software, DAW, or any other tool, and pin it live onto your surface, making it part of your controller template. Resize it, stack it, and place it anywhere on your controller in real time, with zero latency and near-zero CPU and GPU usage.

Need access to the application underneath? Punch transparent holes, circular or rectangular, directly through your surface to see and interact with the software below. Your multi-touch controls and your software, together on the same screen.

Compatible with your favorite software

DJING

DAWS & MUSIC PRODUCTION

VIDEO & STREAMING

All product names, logos and brands are property of their respective owners and are used solely to indicate software compatibility. No affiliation or endorsement is implied.

50.000+ Icons

Stop hunting for the right look. Zonea ships with a built-in library of over 50,000 vector icons across 34 curated packs , Font Awesome, Material, Bootstrap, Feather, Ionicons and more — right inside the editor. Search, tap, done. Your button is styled in seconds.

Because every icon is vector, it stays razor-sharp at any size, from a tiny utility key to a full-screen pad. No blurry bitmaps, no importing files, no guesswork. Just open the picker, find the symbol that speaks to your workflow, and make it yours.

Skin Anything

Drop in your own PNG or GIF images and Zonea wraps them onto any widget: buttons, knobs, faders, pads, displays, even full-page backgrounds. Want it to look like your favorite hardware, your studio’s branding, or something nobody has ever seen? Load the image and it’s done.

Skins are state-aware, not just wallpaper. Buttons get distinct ON and OFF artwork. Knobs and encoders take a static base plus a rotating overlay that spins with the value. Faders get a custom track and a custom cap. And because animated GIFs are supported, your meters and frames can actually move. Every image fills the widget edge-to-edge, at any size.

Live Video On Your Surface

Zonea speaks the three video protocols that drive modern streaming and broadcast: NDI, Spout and OMT. Pull a live feed straight from OBS or vMix program output, preview, a camera, a media player, or any source on your network and drop it right onto your control surface. Now you trigger scenes, ride faders and fire cues while watching exactly what’s going to air, all in one place.

It’s built for real production. Every feed is GPU-accelerated and composited with near-zero overhead, so video stays smooth even at full resolution while you perform. Each source runs in its own isolated process, if a feed drops, your surface never does. Place as many video widgets as you want, resize them anywhere on the canvas, and build the exact monitoring layout your show needs.

Never get lost

Tooltips live everywhere in Zonea, just hover over anything in the editor with your mouse, objects, tools, functions, settings, and it instantly tells you what it does and how to use it. No manuals to dig through, no guesswork, no dead ends.

Learn as you build, move faster, and master your surface from day one, with clear, helpful guidance across the entire editor.

One App, Any Setup

All-in-one touch PC

Touch tablet or 2-in-1 PC

Touch-screen laptop PC

Desktop PC + touch monitor (21.5″, 24″, 27″ or bigger)

Mini PC + touch monitor (21.5″, 24″, 27″ or bigger)

Laptop with a touch screen next to your DAW

Laptop PC + touch monitor (21.5″, 24″, 27″ or bigger)

Zonea runs at any resolution from 800×600 and up, on any screen you throw at it; the sweet spot for touch monitors is 21.5 to 27 inches, big enough to perform and compact enough for any booth or desk. Make it your main controller, or the extra one that never runs out of knobs: your hardware is fixed, Zonea is not, so design the faders, pads and buttons your gear is missing and put your whole show one touch away, right where your hands are.

Zonea + your synths

Zonea + your pads

Zonea + your mixer

Zonea + your keys

Zonea + your software

One license. Every platform.

Windows x64 now · ARM · October

macOS beta · October

Linux beta · October

$14.99

They are almost here. We are completing the final touches right now. Be one of the founders: get Zonea today at the founders price of $14.99 and use it on every platform the moment each one goes live.

One license, every platform. Windows 64-bit is ready to use today; Windows on ARM, macOS and Linux arrive in October, included at no extra cost, on up to two of your computers. macOS and Linux will ship first as public betas, but this is no beta pass: your founders license is the full perpetual license, yours forever, with every update included.

Get the full perpetual license today at the special founders price.

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Free with open-source apps

Using one of the open-source apps below? Zonea is free while it runs, full version. A license gives you the same Zonea with any software, all the time.

Mixxx is the leading open-source DJ software, free for everyone: four decks, master sync, hot cues, loops, effects and full timecode vinyl control. Developed for more than 20 years by a worldwide community of DJs and developers, it works out of the box with over 100 DJ controllers.

When you DJ with Mixxx, Zonea is free for you too. Zonea activates automatically while Mixxx is running, so you can design your own touch surface and play, at no cost.

Ardour is the open-source DAW that professionals respect: full multitrack recording, editing and mixing, developed in the open for more than two decades. The code is 100% free; the ready-to-run installers ask for a small contribution (from $1) that funds development, and the free demo build simply goes silent after 10 minutes.

Record with Ardour and Zonea is free for you too. Zonea activates automatically while Ardour is running, at no cost.

LMMS is the free, open-source music production studio: pattern sequencer, piano roll, built-in synths and VST support, with a huge community of producers behind it.

Produce with LMMS and Zonea is free for you too. Map faders, knobs and pads to your mix and instruments, and work hands-on, at no cost while LMMS is running.

OpenMPT is the legendary Windows tracker, carrying more than two decades of module-music history and an active scene to this day.

Track with OpenMPT and Zonea is free for you too. Put transport, macros and MIDI control on a touch surface next to your pattern editor, at no cost while OpenMPT is running.

OBS Studio is the open-source standard for live streaming and recording, used by millions of creators every day.

Stream with OBS and Zonea is free for you too. With Zonea’s native OBS integration you can switch scenes, control audio and drive your whole show from a custom touch deck, at no cost while OBS is running.

Free mode works with any version of each app, including builds you compiled yourself. Mixxx, Ardour, LMMS, OpenMPT and OBS Studio are independent open-source projects, not affiliated with Zonea.

Got questions? We've got answers

The forum is free for everyone, license or not. Ask anything before you buy, get real answers from our team and community, and request the features you want to see next: Zonea is built together with its users.

Free community forum access

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Built on Experience

20+ years of pushing touch performance forward.

Starting with MonoTouchLive (2006), one of the earliest touchscreen controllers for Ableton Live.
Followed by SmithsonMartin Emulator, winner of the DJ Mag Tech Award for Most Innovative Product (2011).
Later Chameleon.
Now introducing Zonea v3.x.

Maetrik Live AKA Maceo Plex @ Break & Enter, Toronto, commanding is Ableton Live set with MonoTouchLive (10-31-2008)