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. Available now for Windows. Windows on ARM arrives this August, with macOS and Linux betas following in September.
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.
Launch offer: regular price $14.99. One-time payment. No subscription.
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.
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)
Compatible with your favorite software
DJING
DAWS & MUSIC PRODUCTION
VIDEO & STREAMING
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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 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
We ♥ Open Source
Open-source software powers music, streaming and much of the modern world, and we stand with that community. While any of these apps is running, Zonea unlocks completely: full version, no time limits, free.
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 always applies to the latest official release of each app; older, beta or self-built versions are not recognised. 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.
Launch offer: regular price $14.99. One-time payment. No subscription.
What about Windows on ARM, Mac and Linux?
Windows on ARM · August
macOS beta · mid-September
Linux beta · late September
They are almost here. We are completing the final touches right now.
Be one of the founders: preorder your platform at the founders price of $9.99 $14.99 and get it the moment it goes live. macOS and Linux ship first as public betas; your founders license includes every update through the final release. Only 500 founders licenses per platform: after that, the price goes back to $14.99. One license per operating system. Windows is part of the launch window too: $9.99 until the founders licenses run out.
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