Im not sure what is going on but when I try to open sonar x3 and I load kontakt I see sound files in there click to load one sample up start tapping my pads on the mpd and nothing happens but when I move my mouse over the virtual keyboard in kontakt and click on the keys I hear all my sub bass sounds coming out the speakers. yet my mpd seems to do nothing.
 
I have reason demo I opened it up and loaded the korg drum and tested my pads and they worked the sound came out also have tried session drummer and strings vst in sonar and my controller was working tap a pad and the sound came out the speakers .
 
Any ideas would be great. im sure this question has prolly been asked a million times yet I cant seem to find any info about it.
 
do I need a stand alone version of kontakt??
 
the version I have is listed as 5.3

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From what i remember kontakt supports midi only and doesnt support usb devices idk why this is so but the mpd18 that i have is only usb so i dont have midi could this be the case

Wrong forum. This is for Cakewalk instruments. Questions about using synths in X3 should be posted in the X series forum. More people are likely to see it (esp. those that use Kontakt). It sounds like a mapping problem. IOW, the mpd is sending notes that Kontakt does not have mapped to the samples. There are three places this can be addressed the mpd, Kontakt (I guess, don't use it myself) or a Drum Map in X3.

ok thanks man ill try and post in there. but no nothing happends when i press the pads but when i click the keys with the mouse i here the sounds

That all makes sense. I don't have the hardware or software in question but Kontakt is a soft synth like Session Drummer in that they both get MIDI input and produce audio output. Generally virtual instrument have a way to audition notes. Samplers like Kontakt provide a keyboard. Drum synths like Session Drummer provide a drum kit. Clicking on the virtual keyboard or drum kit tells you samples are loaded and the synth is routed to the audio output. The pads on the mpd send out MIDI data. What needs to happen is figure out what notes are sent by the mpd, what notes are needed by the synth and figure out a way to match them up.

Your mpd - is that AKai? - is mapped to the general midi notes for drums - C1 and above for about an octave.  It doesn't send midi note on/offs above that, I would think.  If it has an octave up/down it might work on higher notes, but my novation keyboard doesn't do that for its pads.  If you load in a Kontakt drum program it would most likely sound - that is my advice.  Then get a midi keyboard.  And yes, Kontakt will respond to midi over usb - or at least it does on my system.
 
As scook sez, this is the Cakewalk synth forum.  Your problem stems from Kontakt and general midi assignments.  You probably would have gotten a better response in the SONAR forum, since Kontakt isn't a Cake synth.  Lots of sonar users use it, however.
 
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well i could load a preset such as chromatic then try to see what notes are playing when i click on the keyboard and maybe assign em some how idk im still learning about that