I've been having problems on and off with my Akai MPK61 Professional controller. Befopre, I couldn't get ANY MIDI going. Then I figured out that I wasn't creating a proper instrument track, that fixed everything.
I've been reading up on the MPK61's manual to figure out how to change parameters while recording a performance on Cakewalk (latest on Win10Pro, I keep it all up to date). I'm using Roland's JV-1080 plugin as a VSTi. I was able to record quite a bit... before I SOMEHOW changed some