Korg padKontrol driver problem

Hi all,

I normally post in the HS section as I have HS6XL but after doing a search to try to solve this problem I saw that the Padkontrol knowledge is in this section of the forum

I'm running the Padkontrol into my PC with the USB connection. Window XP recognized the hardware and installed a windows midi driver. I then went ahead and installed the padKontrol driver as instructed in the padKontrol manual.

In Sonar under Options/Midi Devices the padKontrol (or USB device) was not listed as an input device. I did a shut down/restart and it still wasn't there. I unistalled the driver and reinstalled the driver, still not there. Note that in my system tray I do have a midi icon and it shows activity when I play the padKontrol.

Then I reverted back to the windows driver and now under Sonar's Options/Midi Devices the USB device is listed. And I can get the padKontrol to work in Sonar with the windows midi driver.

My concern is am I getting less performance (latency in particular)? Will some of the features not work using the windows midi driver?

And if so, does anyone have any suggestions on getting Sonar to recognize the Korg driver.

Thanks in advance

Frank

Thanks Fred. How do you tell windows not to look for and install drivers? This plug and play business seems to happen automatically on my computer.

And yes, I did turn on the USB switch before starting Sonar.

Another thing I discovered, my notation software GuitarPro5 is having the same problem, it won't list the device as a midi input when I install the Korg driver and but it will when I use the windows midi driver.

And when I go to control panel, Sounds and Audio devices Properties, Hardware, Properties, General, the device is listed as a USB audio device. Fred is that the same for you.

Also I've also used this usb port for a soundcard before, not sure if that could have got things tracking wrong.

Thanks for your effort.

Thanks again Fred,

On a Korg site a poster suggested uninstalling my soundcard and then reinstalling both but the korg first.

I did that, I uninstalled one of my soundcards a digitech GNX3000, it didn't help the Korg but now my digitech won't work in wdm mode which is a bummer because I was running an m-audio and the digitec as two soundcards. Now I have to run asio and only one sound card at a time.

I'm wondering if I should reformat my hard drive and start from scratch. OUch that would hurt and not being knowlegeable about computers I don't know if I'd get it all to work again.