Hi Audrey

Many thanks for your reply

I think the option you are talking about is Virtual XP Mode. If you have Win 7 Pro and higher you can download the XP Virtual software free from Microsoft, it installs an XP computer within Win 7. I have tried this but the sequencing software I use (Cubase Studio 5)runs better under Win 7 x64 and if I successfully installed the KN Driver in Virtual XP it would not be able to communicate with a Windows 7 program. Although an XP program can be accessed from the Win 7 start menu the two systems cannot communicate with each other ... as far as I know.

I have managed to get around the problem by using the old fashion 5 pin midi cables (in and out) with a USB sound card (Tascam US-144) which has inbuilt midi ports. This works very well, so I can now communicate with Cubase both ways with zero latency.

It would be nice though if Panasonic remembered all its loyal Musical Instrument customers and comissioned a programmer to have a look at converting the old drivers for the more modern computers and Operating Systems most of us will have to buy eventually. After all, I think most of us have bought more than one KN keyboard over the years and they were designed to last.

Glen