Kontrol49 and native mode glitch?

Question

i had my k49 running in native mode just fine and now for some unknown reason i seem to have lost the ability to select scenes in native mode. the instruments load fine when i apply one to a track but if i try to hit say "scene 11 for automation mode" or "scene 13 for plug-in edit" nothing happens. no response on any of the 16 pads when pressing scene + a pad.
i've tried restoring factory presets, reinstalling the korg librarian and nothing seems to work. any ideas how i can restore the fully functioning native mode?
(as an aside does anyone know if 7.2 actually improves compatibility with controller surfaces?)

Answer 1

In native mode, the plugin parameters come up on the 8 knobs only, and are in a pretty arbitrary order, which makes it all but useless for anything more than twiddling the odd parameter - you end up spending more time paging between parameter sets than actually tweaking.
What I did, in my custom config, for every instrument I use (including all the Logic & Garagaband instruments, and third party ones as well) is learn the most useful parameters onto the knobs and faders. Typically, that's envelopes, filters, waveforms and whatever else makes sense for that instrument.
That means for everything I use, I have the 16 most important paramaters on all 16 controls, in a logical configuration, which is much more comfortable for synths etc.
It sounds like a nightmare to config, but once you know what you are doing regarding the controller assignments (modes, zones etc) it's actually not that bad to setup, apart from Logic's bugggy behaviour which is a real pain in the proverbials. I especially like the one where Logic deletes all your assignments without warning - that's great fun that one! (And there are many more, all reproducible.)
There are some details in native mode that I was planning on implementing or trying to implement, but due to the controller assignments unreliability, I've ceased developing my configs until Logic is fixed in this regard.