Korg nanoKontrol / Buttons LED's Staying ON - HOW???

Okay, I bought a Korg nanoKontrol this evening then searched the forum and found out how to set it up to use under SONAR 8 - and it works. But the LED's for the buttons do not stay on, such as when I Mute or Record Enable a track. It would be great to have the nano buttons remain lit to match what I see in SONAR. Does anyone have any idea how I can get the LED's to stay on? In the nanoKontrol setup software, I set the buttons for Toggle and not Momentary but that didn't make any difference...so I'm lost and any help would be appreciated. Also, this would include the Play and Record buttons as well, it would be great for those LED's to remain lit as well when engaged.

Thanks Gamma, you really know your stuff when it comes to setting up the nano for SONAR control...in fact it was your previous setup post that I found online and got as far as I did. And your suggestions have worked for the Mute/Record toggle LED's but now I'm seeing that the Transport Record and Play LED's don't seem to work as hoped - For example:

1) I engage Track 1 REC, then press the nano REC button (LED is lit)
2) press nano STOP button, recording stops but nano REC button is still lit
3) press nano REC button again, LED turns off but recording does not engage

This same scenario occurs for the nano PLAY LED as well...I assume this is because there is not bi-directional communication taking place between SONAR and the nano - where pressing the nanoSTOP would turn off the nanoREC LED. Anyway, this nano Kontrol is brilliant even if there may be some short comings to how the LED's may behave. I've got a Frontier Designs Tranzport that I had been using in the years past but I think this nanoKontrol is much more fun and useful and a lot less money too. Do you know if more than one nanoKontrol could be used within SONAR?

I've been so impressed with this nano that I'm thinking I may go pickup the other two nano controllers as well...do you own or use the NanoKEY or nanoPAD within SONAR? I have the M-Audio Keystation 88es and the nanoKontrol fits perfectly atop the 88es above the keys, the width of the nanoKontrol and the area above the 88es keys are almost the same width - like they were made for each other. LOL!!!

It looks like the transport buttons need to stay set on "momentary" and they don't seem to behave like a mute button would in toggle mode. Sorry....I tried a few things but didn't have any luck.

If you want another Nano get the NanoPad. The NanoKey is ok for basic note entry but for any kind of articulate playing it really is just to cheaply made for this IMHO and the keys have no feel to them. I have a big problem with how my thumb hits a key with the raised small white plastic outside border on the NanoKey kinda getting in the way more times than not. But the NanoPad on the other hand is just as great as the NanoKontrol and has to be one of the best deals and most practical tools you can get for your studio. Go get one!!!

And yes you can have more than one NanoKontrol setup in Sonar. The only limitation I've seen is that the "Cakewalk generic surface" only allows for a maximum of 32 track strips and if you had four NanoKontrols setup side by side like a 36 channel digital mixer then you wouldn't have access to the last four channels. Maybe the workaround would be to assign each Nano its own "generic surface" so that each Nano would have a total of 32 strips available. But remember with just one NanoKontrol you have four scenes thus giving you 9x4 channels to work with if you don't mind pushing the scene button for each of the four sets of 9 channels/strips.

And for the question about using a rotary knob to scroll... Do you mean like the scrub tool or too just move forward/backward one measure at a time? I looked for a way to assign the scrub tool option but couldn't find one in the "generic surfaces" options or "ACT" options. But if you just want to scroll forward and back one measure at a time then go into the "Cakewalk generic surfaces" options and select (in your case) strip #9 then on the lower right hand side of the box you'll see options for forward, backward, jog and move. Select one of these and then hold the "LEARN" button at the top right side of the box while you move knob #9 at the same time in the direction you want to go. Then do this for the other direction for knob #9 and don't forget to SAVE your changes. The only issue I found with doing this is that forward works very well at scrolling but reverse seems to only go back one measure at a time for each half turn of the knob. I wish I could get the "scrub" function to work this way, that would be pretty cool.

The one thing I did run across due to your question is possibly using a rotary knob assigned to the option "lower/raise Groove clip pitch". I'm gonna try that out right away.

Let me know if you have any problems and how thing work out on your end. Cheers!!!! : )

I dont think the kontrol software works that well with Windows7, I always get a timeout when trying to receive or send scenes. The thing works fine except for the buttons not staying lit. Its using Korg drivers too, not microsoft drivers.