After weeks of intermittent hacking around with Plogue Bidule, I've managed to evolve something in the way of an alternative to the KMI software. It doesn't solve the tricky physical problems of size 10 feet & size 4 softstep pads, but it is usable (in barefeet!) & gives you up to forty note triggers from the ten pads, CC# to MIDI note#, CCvalue to note velocity. Nothing for the NavPad yet, but it's very much a work-in-progress.
I still have to boot up the KMI software if only to turn the backlighting off, but once that's done, shut it down, use port 1 & it'll work.
Anyone interested in checking it out (improving it??), it's on the Plogue.com forums at:
http://www.plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic. ... c05b855f62
Dave