Mickey Monster

Can I manually map this thing  without the win 10 driver? or is that the key to everything?

 driver is Roland A PRO version 1.0.0.0 from 2015. From the CD rom. Cant  get the Roland site to auto download windows 10 driver. Should I uninstall?

"open the Device Manager go to Sound and Game Controllers and check your A 300 is installed and open the Properties dialogue and see what the driver tab says."  

 driver is Roland A PRO version 1.0.0.0 from 2015.

Im going to load the cd rom that came in the box first

It looks like theyve all been moved or deleted from rolands website

47 minutes ago, John Vere said:

Go to the Roland web site and download it from there

https://www.roland.com/ca/support/by_product/a-300pro/

 

I did. They are all HTML docs.

ok right off the bat. cant open ACPRO driver from link given 4 years ago.  Downloaded it ok but its only a series of read mes... no exe files

9 hours ago, abacab said:

The A-300PRO (mine is branded Cakewalk by Roland) has a nice synth keyboard action. If you have the patience to set up the control surface plugin, as described in the links and documentation, it can act as a Cakewalk control surface as well using ACT.

The only reason I don't use it much anymore is that I wanted more than 32 keys. So I now have 49 and 61 key controllers, as well as a 25 key that I pack for travel.

And one quirk with Roland keyboard design is the all-in-one joystick for pitch/modulation. It is spring loaded, and always returns to zero. Sometimes I want a mod wheel that stays where I leave it when I take my hand off. But that is just a small niggle, for an otherwise well built keyboard, with plenty of knobs and faders.

yes abacab ... Thats exactly why I bought it! I want to use the faders for track/ bus level automation and the knobs as pans. I want to assign the keyboard to Kontact Komplete control and the pads to addictive drums. Thats my goal, and Ill probably need help from all of you to do it. OK... deep breath... here we go. 

Its here! Unboxing it now. Comes with Ableton lite instead of Sonar LE ( but I already new that). I'm not even going to bother with the CD Rom. Im going to download the AC PRO drivers abacab linked me instead. Pls stay on this thead guys and thank you all:)

Thanks everyone. I will read all your links. It should arrive Monday. Play mostly guitar and bass but I had an ensoniq ESP MIDI sampling keyboard back in the day and love to play a piano whenever I run into one and there are lots of vst instruments that Ive been triggering with my qwerty keyboard for almost 7 years now (Aaaaarghhh!!! Yuck!!!) so I'm super psyched.

good advice. Anyone else actually own a  Roland A 300 pro?

Thanks abacab!

me too was up

I just bought a Roland A300 pro midi controller to use with Cakewalk by Bandlab. It arrives in 5 days. Anyone using one? (or any A-pro series-500If so, how well does it integrate out of the box? What tips, tweeks, drivers, etc. do you need to run with windows 10? Ive already sent back a behringer and i rig... so I know its not going to be as easy as if I got  novation to run ableton. Its just that Ive been using cakewalk exclusively and refuse to jump ship. You are encouraged to email me @mickeymonster@mail.com when you reply to this so Ill know to log into the forum. I'm hoping us A  pro series owners can build a mapping system worthy of having Bandlab reach out to Roland to partner with after Gibson went bankrupt