Hello Tack,
I'd suggest trying the following. (These steps refer to Windows 10, but I expect the process is the same on Windows 11):
- Exit Hauptwerk if it's running.
- Temporarily disconnect the Launchpad from the PC.
- Go to "Windows Settings | Update and Security" and check for and apply any available Windows updates.
- Reboot the PC.
- You don't need to install any of the bundled software that comes with a Novation Launchpad (Ableton, etc.), but if using a PC (Windows) the "Novation USB Driver" may possibly need to be installed (
https://downloads.novationmusic.com/nov ... nchpad-mk2 ), so install that.
- Now try connecting the Launchpad directly to a USB port on the PC (not via a USB hub, as a test to try to eliminate any possibility of hub incompatibility or insufficient power). The lights on the Launchpad should light up in a pattern briefly.
- Click on the Windows Start Menu and type "Device Manager". It should find a link to Device Manager. Click on that link to launch it. In Device Manager expand the "
Sound, video and game controllers" node, and you should see a "Launchpad MK2" entry there, which indicates that Windows can see the device.
- Launch Hauptwerk. Hauptwerk should tell you that a new MIDI device has been found (your Launchpad), and ask you whether you want to enable it. Respond in the affirmative.
- Hauptwerk will then show you the "
General settings | MIDI ports" screen. Make sure that the column with the word 'Launchpad' in it is ticked in one of the "
Console MIDI IN ..." rows on the screen's "
MIDI IN ports" tab
and also in one of the "
Console MIDI OUT ..." rows on the screen's "
MIDI OUT ports" tab. OK the screen.
- Load the St. Anne's organ (for example).
- Try auto-detecting a virtual stop to one of the square buttons on the Launchpad, to verify that it's now working.
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.