Control your VST plugins from a touchscreen

Follows your selection, no mapping

Click a synth or an effect in the DAW, or tap a track on Zonea's clip grid, and the eight knobs jump to that device by themselves. The header shows the device's name, arrows step to the previous or next device on the track, and a page indicator moves through the parameters in banks of eight.

In Live these are the device's parameters, eight at a time. In Bitwig they are the Remote Controls pages you define per plug-in. In FL Studio it works through the bundled Zonea FL script.

Real names, real values, no jumps

Each knob shows the parameter's real name and its value exactly as the DAW formats it, above the knob, so your fingers never cover them while turning.

The knobs read absolute, so the arc shows the parameter's true position, but turn relative: the value moves from wherever it is and never jumps. That is the safe behaviour when the DAW changes the device under your hands.

Build the surface the plugin deserves

Faders, knobs, buttons, encoders and XY pads, laid out the way you play, skinned the way you like, as many as fit on your screen. Several fingers at once, every control independent. Map them once with MIDI learn and they stay mapped.

See the plugin on the surface

The UI Display widget captures any rectangle of any window, a plugin's display included, and shows it live on your surface, so your eyes stay on the touchscreen while your hands work. And the same scripts that drive the Device Panel give you the clip grid above, with the real clip names and colours.