Strange behaviour with nanoKONTROL2

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Hi, my nanoKONTROL2 is plugged, and I think I manage to get all the config as the documentation advise:

The KORG kontrol editor where I set changed some toggle modes:

Should I save that state? or leave it open?

Ardour’s Control surface in Preferences:

With that configuration, Ardour recives MIDI signals from the controller. But it behaves strangely:

• The transport buttons just doesn’t work (play, stop, rec…) and I can’t assign any MIDI control to it (with ctrl+middle click)
• Each solo, mute, rec button doesn’t work either
• Sliders works, they are assigned to my tracks, but trey trigger trick Solo when they hit the max value.
• Knobs toggles the track Rec when they are turned
• None of the buttons light up

I wonder what I missed, as other users seam to have a good experience with Ardour + nanokontrol2.

[luciorgomes]

Try the Mackie protocol. Is the best option for me.

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I just tried the setup with Mackie protocol, and even if the MIDI tracer logs my changes on the controller, Ardour’s interface reacts to absolutely none of the MIDI events. I wonder what’s wrong…

@luciorgomes Could you try displaying the MIDI tracer while pushing play / rec / stop nanokontrol2 buttons? So I can compare my data?

[luciorgomes]

That’s what I got in Port mackie control in (play / rec / stop):
27610253 NoteOn chn 1 5e 7f
27621050 NoteOff chn 1 5e 00
27733343 NoteOn chn 1 5f 7f
27740536 NoteOff chn 1 5f 00
27854265 NoteOn chn 1 5d 7f
27858584 NoteOff chn 1 5d 00

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I wonder why I get something else, in particular Controller signals, instead of NoteOn/Off like yours.

    83199027      Controller chn  1 2f 44
    83204784      Controller chn  1 0f 0e
    83204784      Controller chn  1 2f 04
    83215586      Controller chn  1 0f 0e
    83215586      Controller chn  1 2f 43
    83220619      Controller chn  1 0f 0e
    83220619      Controller chn  1 2f 03
    83269567      Controller chn  1 0f 0e
    83269567      Controller chn  1 2f 45
    83275326      Controller chn  1 0f 0e
    83275326      Controller chn  1 2f 05

[baptiste]

Press Set and REW, then plug the usb cable to start the Nanokontrol in Mackie mode, then in Ardour select the mackie mode for the surface control.

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Wow thank you so much @baptiste that was it!
To be fully precise, the SET and << buttons has to be pressed while plugin the USB cable.