help please Akai MPK mini mapping

[smojoguitars]

Hi, hope someone can help please, pretty new to all this. Youtube and Akai not very helpful at all. Bought an Akai mpk mini and got demo version of Ableton Live 8 and if I can get to grips with it will buy it. I am struggling to get the pads to work to anything. If I open a midi track and drag a drum kit from Impulse, the keys will work but not the pads. I can see the midi messages flashing top right when I hit them though. Also when trying to assign the control pots to a function, I can't get them to work and there's no midi messages flashing. However and bizarrely, I can hit a pad and assign that to a pot (which is no what anyone wants). I have set the midi preferences to on for input and remote for the MPK. must be missing something basic. Any help much appreciated

[Poibles]

On the left of the drum rack you have a a matrix of pads, hit your pads and notice where the hits occur in that grid. Theres a box around 16 'hits' somewhere, drag it to where your hits register, top 8 if I remember right.

[smojoguitars]

OK I got that more or less sorted thanks. My pads show up near the bottom of the grids but the drum rack is way above. The only way I can drag them to where I want is to drag it as low as poss to a vacant position, then scroll down a bit and drag it a bit more and so on. There must be a way of enlarging the rack window so I can see all the grid but can't for the hell of me find how.

Also I still haven't figured how to get the pots working, they don't show up anywhere at present.