Novation Launchkey Mini MK2

Hello Tealeaf and giftee and welcome to these forums. You'll find many helpful people here and a lot of useful information. Make sure that you get the excellent User Guide too: -- in Reaper's Preferences, enable the LaunchKey and set its mode to Input AND Control -- on a track, select the LaunchKey as the MIDI Input device (all channels), Arm the track for Recording and check that Input Monitoring is enabled. -- add the ReaSynth plug-in to the track and turn down the track volume level (just in case ;)). Details of all of those steps are in the User Guide and there's a check-list in section 3.40.

Hi, I am the inexperienced receiver of this awesome gift. I've tried following the steps that have been provided in your posts and in the guide but I don't seem to be able to get Reaper to register that I'm actually doing anything with the Launchkey. I am probably doing something so ridiculously obviously wrong without realising it but at the moment I'm stuck. I've looked up dozens of tutorials on this and read the guide but it's just not working. I'll keep you posted on whether or not I manage to get it working - thanks for the suggestions! Btw I'm getting "The following MIDI inputs could not be opened: Launchkey Mini" every time I open Reaper which you probably already knew but I decided I'd post that just in case it gives you a sudden brilliant idea.

If Reaper can't open the midi input, it seems the fault is outside Reaper. Check if it works in the Ableton Live program that comes with the Launcheky Mini. If still no go, try unplugging the cable from Launckey Mini and replugging in another USB slot on the computer. You might even try to update Launchkey's firmware (software) to if that will help:

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Hey guys I've been struggling with this too. My question is, is there any way to use MIDI with ASIO4ALL? I'm getting some nasty input lag on my mini key that ASIA4ALL has always taken care of, but the only way I can actually see my hardware is if I'm in Waveout. I've always recorded straight signal before this is my first time using MIDI and it seems to be quite the headache.