Hello...

Beepster · Post by **Beepster** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:08 pm

Hey guys. Longtime musician taking the leap into midi for the first time. I just bought a padKontrol and am trying to figure out how to make it do something. I stopped in here first though to say hi... so hi!

Beepster · Post by **Beepster** » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:49 pm

Okay I'm just gonna drop my question(s) here and maybe ya'll can point me in the right direction.

Essentially I've been a live musician for 20+ years. Guitar, vox, bass, drums, etc... I started getting into basic home recording about five years ago using Nuendo 2, a Layla Echo and a (now old) XP machine. I stuck to analog stuff (recording my bands and solo stuff) and have a general knowledge of how to capture live sound (I've never even attempted to use midi before). Unfortunately I can no longer play live due to physical limitations, especially drums, and am now in the process of setting up a newer and fancier digital studio so I can keep making music. I'm still waiting on building my new system but got a good deal on this padKontrol so I snagged it. At the moment I am trying to get it to work with my laptop (new but lower end Acer with Win 7 64 bit). Obviously I can't hook the Layla up to it as it uses a PCI interface so I'm hoping I can output through the headphone jack on the laptop. Not sure if that is possible but Windows seems to be recognizing the pK.

Here's what I've done so far:

Installed the librarian software

Installed Reaper trial (just to test the pK)

Downloaded a sample drumkit

aaaand now I'm stuck. I have the library software open and the sample folder open but I can't figure out how to get the samples into the editor and I'm sure I'll have trouble getting that into Reaper.

For now I just want to play the thing and maybe create some simple songs to get the hang of working in a midi environment and to get my fingers used to playing the kP.

Any help would be more than appreciated.

Thanks.

michelkeijzers · Post by **michelkeijzers** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:06 am

Welcome to the forum, I'm sorry I don't have the answer to your questions however you can best post your question for padKontrol in:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... 4c21be3c66

Beepster · Post by **Beepster** » Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:27 am

michelkeijzers wrote:Welcome to the forum, I'm sorry I don't have the answer to your questions however you can best post your question for padKontrol in:

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... 4c21be3c66

Thanks. I was kind of poking around that section to see if I could find anything pertinent to my situation but didn't have much luck. I guess I'll repost this there. I've been looking around the net all day trying to figure this out. I may be in way over head here. Eep!

Beepster · Post by **Beepster** » Sat Feb 11, 2012 4:18 am

Update to my conundrum can be found here...

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... 433#457433

Peace.