If you have a Korg controler device, and it's not seen by its own editor nor by your DAW. Your Korg device is not recognized. This is the solution:

Why is it not recognized?
The problem with most Korg drivers, including the actual ones, is that they are made like if we would only use one MIDI device controller.
Windows have its own way to manage MIDI transmission. It uses channels (nothing to do with standards MIDI channels) .
So windows distributes these channels randomly to the different midi devices. Each devices can need 4 or more windows midi channels.
Korg drivers only work if their devices are using the first 10 windows midi channels.
So, it's often needed to manually force windows to give to Korg devices one of those first channels.
This is done by editing windows registry.

Step by Step Solution:

1. To check your Korg midi setup, run the Uninstall Korg USB Midi Device app (this should be installed as part of the Korg drivers and will not uninstall the driver if you cancel it). We will use it as an information tool.

You should see this:




As you can see, in this case, Korg device have been assigned Windows midi channels 12 and 13.

For Korg driver to work, we'll have to do some modifications in the registry to force that the Korg devices receive a channel under 9.

The first thing is to allocate an alias to the Korg driver.

2. Open Regedit, do a reg backup first just in case, and navigate to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class

Search (CTRL F) to find a class named KORGUM64.DRV
You should see something like this:



3. Once you have found that expand the node and you will see a list of numbers starting with 0000.
One or more of them will be the Korg setting.
The name should be an Alias with the data midi1 for the first device, midi2 for the second and so on.

Find the first one that has the DriverDesc matching your device.

4. Expand the node down to the bottom item, which will be KORGUM64.DRV.
Select the node and then you will need to create a new string value.

Do this for all your Korg devices in the class. Note, even though I have just the one Korg device connected there were 4 device sections for it.

5. With that bit completed for all your Korg devices you need to go to:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32

Then add a new string value with the name of midi1 and the value data of the driver you allocated to midi1. Repeat this for each device you added in the previous section.

For 32bit systems
To fix 32 bits applications like the Minilogue sound librarian, it is also necessary to duplicate midi stuff () in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Drivers32 with “KORGUM64.DRV” value.

Now when you run the Uninstall Korg USB-MIDI Device app you should get something like the following:




As you can see, the Device is running on channel 1 and 2. So now, it will work with your DAW.

Here is a list of devices to apply this solution:

Spoiler

ARP ODYSSEY
ARP ODYSSEY Module
KingKORG
KROME
KRONOS
microKORG XL+
minilogue
monologue
MS-20 mini
Pa300
Pa300 Brazilian Edition
Pa300 Chinese Edition
Pa300 Indian Edition
Pa300 Indonesia Edition
Pa300 Iran Edition
Pa300 Peru Edition
Pa300 Romania Edition
Pa300 Serbia Edition
Pa300 Turkey Edition
Pa300 Vietnam Edition
Pa3X Le MUSIKANT
Pa3X MUSIKANT
Pa4X
Pa4X MUSIKANT
Pa4X ORIENTAL
Pa600
Pa600 MUSIKANT
Pa600QT
Pa900 MUSIKANT
SV-1 Black
KRONOS LS
Grandstage
KROSS
Pa1000
Pa700
Pa700 ORIENTAL
prologue
Pa300 Bulgarian Edition
EK-50
KROME EX
minilogue xd
KRONOS (2011)
KRONOS Platinum
KRONOS X
KROSS 1
M3
M3 XPanded
M50
microKORG XL
microSAMPLER
microSTATION
microX
MP10Pro
Pa1X
Pa1X Pro
Pa1X Pro Elite
Pa2X Pro
Pa3X
Pa3X Le
Pa500
Pa500 MUSIKANT
Pa500 ORIENTAL
Pa588
Pa800
Pa900
PS60(
R3
RK-100S
TR
TRITON Extreme
X50
electribe
electribe sampler
KAOSS DJ
KAOSS PAD KP3+
KAOSSILATOR PRO+
SQ-1
KAOSS PAD KP3
KAOSSILATOR PRO
MS-20 Kit(sold out)
MS-20M Kit + SQ-1

microKEY
microKEY Air
microKEY2
nanoKEY Studio
nanoKEY2
nanoKONTROL Studio
nanoKONTROL2
nanoPAD2
padKONTROL
taktile
K-Series
KONTROL49
microKONTROL
nanoKEY
nanoKONTROL
nanoPAD
TRITON taktile

KORG Kontrol Editor

C-520
C-720
HAVIAN 30

KORG Hybrid Pianos

KHP-2000
KHP-5000
KS-320
KS-520

D3200
D888

PANDORA mini
PANDORA stomp
PX5D

 

Last edited: Nov 30, 2023