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Hi guys

I'm having serious trouble getting Ableton to see the new PadKontrol device that I've just bought. I've installed the drivers (latest ones from online) and the editor software. Windows can see the device in control panel but nothing shows up in Ableton and it's not receiving a midi signal.

I've tried restarting the PC, uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers, changing USB port etc. but still nothing is showing up in the MIDI section in Ableton's preferences. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit and Ableton Live 32 bit. I have a Novation Zero SL MKII successfully installed and working with ableton, as well as a midi keyboard.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

that's weird.. I've not used mine for ages but iirc it was plug and play; i didn't have to do any setup (i'm on a mac though)

So i think the padkontrol powers up and show's "S16" as default. Is this happening?

I'll dig mine out later and try and remind myself how it works.

Thanks for the response. Mine is showing S.01 - which I assume is the first scene. I can select any of the other scenes e.g. 16 but this doesn't seem to affect how it's recognised. My guess is that this is a driver issue rather than an Ableton problem but I'm not sure how to fix it. Too many USB MIDI devices maybe?

MrTingleby wrote:... but still nothing is showing up in the MIDI section in Ableton's preferences. I'm using Windows 7 64 bit and Ableton Live 32 bit.

There may be your issue. I'd ask Ableton support about that.