axiom pro hypercontrol and pro tools - why no workie?

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So I decided to go and get the axiom pro 49.

I'm using PT LE 8.0.4 on a mac.

I wanting to control native instruments (massive, fm8 etc..)

I have Axiom set up properly in pro tools peripherals/midi with hypercontrol receiving and sending on 8 channels.

I focus on the instrument (massive) which DOES show up in axiom pro display but despite any and all knob twiddling from either the perspective of massive or the axiom round controller knobs (no, not the sliders) neither protools nor the axiom seem to be all that aware of each others presence.

Any of you who have gotten this to work, please reveal the details so that I may use axiom and native instruments in perfect harmony.

Also, when putting massive into learn mode, and focussing on the control i.e filter one cutoff and then right clicking to commence the "learn" function. twiddling a knob on the axiom pro has no effect on the cutoff parameter. In protools I even added filer/cutoff 1 as automation.

please help me fellow axiom pro / pro tools / VI users.

thanks for reading and helping.