Tap 2 find and midi controller

[bill52pa]

I am a guitar player using Sonar Producer as my DAW. I simply want to use the tap 2 find feature in EZD2 to find a groove. Howoever, I know nothing about midi and do not want to spend ages learning about it.
At the moment I am using the mouse to tap but it is very inaccurate. I have and M-Ausio Keyrig 25 midi controller but for the life of me cannot get the kick drum to work in EZD. I can get other drum/cymbal sounds from the keys but not kick. Like I said, I just want to get to guitar playing and not waste loads of time learning midi.
Does anyone know of a dummy proof midi controller that you can just plug in and play without any messing about?
Cheers

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[Henrik Ekblom]

Your MIDI controller is able to play the kick, you’ll probably need to transpose it so you can access the right note to play the kick.

If you look at the first image I attached, it shows what note the kick is played on. This information is found in the instrument properties – right click the kick in the main drum view.

On the bottom right corner it shows the last played MIDI note from your keyboard, so if you hit the G1 note on your keyboard (as I did on the screenshot) you’ll know that the kick key is further left on your keyboard, since the kick is found on C1.

Keys on a keyboard can either be named by their key name or its note number. You can press the Key button on the top right corner to show note numbers (seen on the second attached image). The last pressed key was note number 43 and the kick is found on 36, meaning the kick is found 7 notes to the left of the last pressed key.

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[Henrik Ekblom]

See this video on how to transpose your keyboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaSk57pn_Y

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