Ok....found a video tutorial on how to set up the Impulse with Reaper(which seemed brilliant),but still no midi signal whatsoever. By the way,I do have version 4.7....so then,WTF???

I had no sound in mine until I turned the record button on,selected impulse as my midi input and then I clicked the tiny speaker(I'm using the reaborn 2 theme btw)to enable Record Monitoring. Follow the setup guide for Reaper which is located when you right click the automap icon in the bottom task bar of windows.(Software Setup..) The Impulse works great. I was a bit frustrated early on but now am glad I bought it. The only thing I can't get to work are the rewind,FF and loop controls. Otherwise everything working here. Maybe you need to reload the firmware? This guide tells you how to reload the firmware.

I just reset the Impulse to factory settings based on the info here: So, it should be restored to factory settings. Now I will attempt to do what you've just mentioned here @smash. I hope it works. I'm actually having problems just downloading and opening/installing the .syx item. Sheesh. I am a musician, ya know...not as much an computer geek, that's for sure. Forgive me, if I ask more questions. Thanks.

Nevermind... 

evidently that .syx link is faulty.. you have to option-click it to open it . Attempting to download into the sysex application now

moving forward