For DJs / VJs / Musicians

VKO1

Like an MPC,
but for visuals.

A pad-based visual performance instrument for iPhone, iPad & Apple Silicon Mac. Trigger clips, stack effects, sync to BPM — with or without your hands on it.

AutoMix 53 Effects 25 Visualizers BPM Sync MIDI & Gamepad Ableton Link AirPlay / HDMI
VKO1 in action
The Pitch

NO VJ?
NO PROBLEM.

You're behind the decks. The crowd wants visuals. You don't have a VJ, a laptop rig, or a free hand.
VKO1 runs the visuals for you — tempo-matched, beat-locked, auto-cycling effects — on the phone already in your pocket.

HANDS-FREE BPM LOCKED BEAT DETECTION ABLETON LINK AIRPLAY · HDMI
⟡ Star Feature

AutoMix.
Set it & forget it.

Seven playback modes, from manual to fully autonomous. MIX is the flagship — all banks, auto-cycling effects, zero input. MIX2 layers two clips with cycling blend modes. BLEND focuses on the composite — you keep your effects, it keeps evolving.

01
OFF
Manual only. You trigger every clip.
02
SEQ
Plays clips in bank order.
03
RND
Smart random, avoids repeats.
04
SHF
Pure shuffle within the bank.
05 ★
MIX
All banks + auto effects. Fully autonomous.
06 ★
MIX2
Two-layer compositing + blend cycling.
07 ★
BLEND
Composite cycling, effects stay as set.
TIME DIV ↻
Control switching speed from rapid-fire 1/16th cuts to slow 1-bar transitions. Adjust on the fly with the DIV button — VKO1 stays locked to whatever you're playing.
⟡ New in 1.22

Real 3D,
inside the graph.

Parametric meshes, imported models, and a shared camera you can orbit with your finger — all living inside the same node graph as every other generator. Depth-buffered. Audio-reactive. Now shipping.

Bass Torus Knot 3D Bloom Output
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Parametric meshes

Torus Knot & Icosphere Terrain built live on device. Audio-reactive vertex displacement, Blinn-Phong + fresnel shading, all 33 palettes.

Bring your own mesh

Drop in a .usdz, .obj, .ply, or .abc. Auto-centered, auto-scaled, swappable from the inspector.

Orbit with your finger

The preview panel is now a live 3D viewport. Drag to orbit, pinch to zoom, double-tap to reset. Camera is shared across every 3D node.

Write your own Metal shader

Drop a .metal file with a vertex + fragment pair onto any 3D mesh. Compiled at runtime — instant generator node. Full GPU, full control.

fragment float4 myShader(
  VOut in [[stage_in]],
  constant Uniforms& u [[buffer(0)]])
{
  return float4(in.uv, u.bass, 1.0);
}
Under the hood
53
Real-Time Effects
BPM-synced, wet/dry control, 19 Metal GPU shaders. One knob, whole mix.
25
GPU Visualizers
No video files needed. Plasma, Voronoi, EQ Bars, Tunnel, Holo Cube — audio-reactive.
68+
Node Graph Modules
Patch generators, modifiers, combiners, audio inputs. Build your own — no Xcode.
33 COLOR PALETTES
19 METAL SHADERS
PAD FX STACKING
Your Rig, Your Way

Any device.
Any rig.

Run it on the phone in your pocket. Stand it on an iPad. Plug in a controller. Send visuals to the big screen. VKO1 fits the setup you already have.

◉ Run it on

  • iPhone — in your pocket, hands-free
  • iPad — the full pad workflow on a stand
  • Apple Silicon Mac — native, big screen

◉ Control & Output

  • MIDI Learn on every control — any controller
  • Bluetooth gamepad — play it like a game
  • Ableton Link — sync to your DJ/DAW rig
  • AirPlay · HDMI — cables optional
VKO1 Icon

Press
play.

VKO1 is on the App Store now.
iPhone · iPad · Apple Silicon Mac.

Download on the App Store
vko1.app