Novation Launchkey Mk3 shows in Midi Devices and Midi Remote but wont work with Midi Track

Hi, I can’t seem to get my keyboard to output midi even though its showing in midi port setup as active with ‘all midi inputs’ checked. I’m selecting a VSTi and choosing ‘all midi inputs’ and then creating a midi track with input routing set to ‘LKMK3’ and output set to the aforementioned VSTi. Nuendo is seeing the keyboard and I can use it as a Midi Remote but I can’t figure out what I’m doing wrong. It’s pretty embarrassing because I’m by no means new to this. I’m on Windows 11 home 22H2 with Nuendo 13.0.50 Any help would be appreciated!

PS- When I open the Midi input monitor in the midi port setup window it shows the notes I’m playing but says ‘length is 0’ after all of them in red under ‘comments’. Also I can select the keyboard in the ‘Chord Pads remote setting’ window under midi input and it will play the VSTi when I route the input of the VSTi to chordpads but not when I select the Keyboard! It seems crazy that it’s this hard.

Do you run a UAD interface or any of their DSP hardware with your DAW? A month ago, there was an update to UAD Console that killed any other MIDI controller by flooding the MIDI ports usage under the hood (in Windows anyway; not sure about MacOS).

It has been corrected (the latest UAD Console version has fixed this), but at the time, it stopped both my AKAI LPK25 and Console 1 Fader Mk III from working at all while the faulty version was installed (I use an octo PCIe DSP card from UAD and therefore had UAD Console installed, even though I don’t actually use it).

My other suggestion was going to be to roll back to Nuendo 14.0.32, as 14.0.40 seems to have also introduced some MIDI issues, but I see you’re just running Nuendo 13. Likely not an issue there.

Hope any of this helps!

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