i have to say i love the little thing. for drum flams and rolls the touch pad works awesome. i do wish it had a few more sliders/knobs like the trigger finger.

i use it to trigger my drums out of dfh superior/reason/logic 8 studio. i also setup a scene in chromatic order and use the pads to tweak out white noise hits and other samples.

If you manually added the Korg padKontrol as a device inside of Reason’s Pref’s, then delete it and start over just in case.

Manually add a MIDI Keyboard (MIDI Control Keyboard), select Korg from the list, then name it padKontrol or whatever. Then choose the padKontrol port you are using (which is probably port 2). This basically tells Reason that your padkontrol is a keyboard, not a control surface, thus allowing the pads to be recognized as midi note value’s not cc’s. You can also choose to set the Korg as the master device if you plan on using it a lot instead of a keyboard controller.

Then go up to the top of the Reason rack where the Audio router is, select Advanced Midi Device (if using Reason 4 at least), then go to Channel 10 and select “Redrum In” from the drop down (Providing you have Redrum loaded in the rack).

Now either manually on the padKONTROL or with the padKONTROL Editor Librarian you need to set the pads to send the right note messages to Reason, C2 is the first channel in Redrum, C#2 is the second and so on up to A2. Easiest way is to load the Reason Redrum Scene Data into the Librarian, then TRANSMIT it to the padKONTROL unit.

Now when you load up a sound on the Redrum you can trigger it with the padKontrol and it will also record in the sequencer when record is armed.

To make matters even more complicated, you can reassign these pad’s/notes in a more efficient manner if you want. So this on the Librarian screen. Remember that you have to transmit your changes to the PadKontrol before they take effect. If you change the notes on the PadKontrol first, you have to tell the Libraian to RECIEVE the info from the unit. Either way, Just be sure to save you changes as a new scene data/set (I do both), rename it so you don’t overwrite the factory default, that way YOUR custom layout is there for you always.

If you want to use the padKontrol for any other device remember to change the midi in, port 10 drop down to whatever device you want to use it with. You’ll probably need a different scene from the padKONTROL Librarian to match up midi note wise w/ the device cuz each device is different.

This 100% works, trust me. I’m tapping out beats as we speak!

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