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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 0.01 inches | | Product Width: | 0.01 inches | | Product Height: | 0.01 inches | | Product Weight: | 1.98 pounds | | Package Length: | 12.9 inches | | Package Width: | 11.3 inches | | Package Height: | 3.5 inches | | Package Weight: | 3.65 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 18 reviews |
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10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Trigger Finger alowa you total control of your drums Mar 20, 2006
By Robert H. Cooper
Unlike the first reviewer my experience with Trigger Finer has been a good one. At first it took me awhile to figure out how to get the device to control the drums in Impulse (Ableton Live) once I realized that each pad had to be set in order to have each tone mapped it was a breeeze. I suspect that maybe the first reviewer as well as any midi newbie might have difficulty in that respects since it is not plug in play as M Audio states....it is program and play, however once you get it programmed correctly it is effortless. The htinkg is it is soo expandable and programmable it may be to its own detriment especaiily for peolle who are not fimiliar with mapping out midi controllers.
12 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 If you can tap out a rhythm with your fingers... Mar 17, 2006
By Simon Allardice
Tried this after using (and returning) an Akai MPD16, which looks pretty similar - but this feels better, responds better, has more features and is easier to use. And unlike the previous reviewer, I didn't have any problems whatsoever with hooking it up: I just plugged in the USB cable, it worked, no drivers needed, end of story. Great with Ableton Live, and just amazing when hooked up to percussion instruments like StormDrum. Highly recommended.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Light, nice and useful, even if not as a drum pad Aug 13, 2007
By G. Maldonado
I bought this product because I wanted to experiment a drum-playing gesture in computer-music making.
But, if used as it was a percussion, it suffers of unreliability: if you don't hit the pads perfectly at the center, they don't respond reliably to your gesture, since they are not too sensible, you have to hit them quite hard, if you are thinking at a drum, at least for me.
Anyway, I realized that the pads can be used for purposes other than drum-like playing. In fact they act as a key of a piano-like keyboard, i.e. they send note-on message when pressed and note-off when released (not immediately after the note-on like most other drum pads). Also each pad can be used as a different pressure controller, with independent tracking, by assigning a different controller to each pad. This is like having actual polyphonic aftertouch, a feature which is missing to most of keyboard controllers. This permits you a non-conventional gesture that allows unusual and powerful musical approaches.
The tracking quality of the four vertical sliders are very good, the best I have found in a control surface so far.
The quality of the eight knobs is also good even if not at the level of the sliders.
Summing up, it is a very good product, I recommend it.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Bad Reviewers are just not knowledgable Dec 23, 2008
By easey
One guy gave this product a 2 star and mentioned that it should come with pre programmed sounds. ITS A MIDI CONTROLLER!!!!!! SOUNDS COME FROM YOUR COMPUTER NOT THE DEVICE.
Another guy says that this is a horrible device and gave it 1 star b/c he can't get it to work with Reason 3. The problem is that in the newest update of Reason 4 the trigger finger is already listed in the presets. But in older versions you have to set it up manually. When you set it up manually in an older version of Reason you have to list it as a "Keyboard Control Surface" not just "Control Surface". DO THAT AND IT WILL WORK. I GUARANTEE IT. This issue is not a trigger finger falut.
I give this product 4 stars. The only reason I don't give it 5 stars is b/c enigma (included editing software) could be a bit easier to use. The whole self programming midi thing is a bit confusing for most people. If you are really good with Midi you shouldn't have a problem but I find Midi as a whole a bit confusing. Just stick with Enigma's presets and you should be good. Most of everything you would use it for is preset. (Reason, iDrum, ect.)
I recommend this product.
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
Instructions on how to get the Trigger Finger to work with Propellerheads Reason Sep 30, 2007
By MJ
I just got this today and it was really hard to figure out how to make it work in reason so I'm posting what worked for me here.
To get trigger finger working in reason set the global midi channel to 1. To do this press 'save & exit' and 'exit' at the same time to enter edit mode. Use the channel slider to select channel 1.
Press 'save & exit' and then hit a pad to save it. Then to assign the right notes to the pads enter edit mode again and hit pad 1 and use the 'note' knob to set it to C1. (not C.1 which is c#1). That sets it to your bass drum. Press 'save&exit' again and press pad 1 to save your setting.
Before you define the rest of the notes, get it working with reason. Go into Preferences->Control Surfaces and add the trigger finger as if it were a regular keyboard. Set it to be the master keyboard.
At this point DO NOT press anything on the TF because it may cause reason to freeze.
Instead close reason and restart it and make a redrum and set the midi keyboard to point to it and you should be able to make the kick play using pad 1. If it works, go through the rest of the pads and set them to the right notes (c1, c.1, d1, d.1, ...) and save your settings and you should be ready to go.
It is also possible to set it up not on channel 1 via the Reason midi bus at the top of the rack. That doesn't work very well because then it seems you can't record midi events into the sequencer.
Since I've only had this working a few hours I can't say how reliable it is but it does play pretty well and I suppose I'm glad I got it even though the setup was very nonintuitive and not very well documented.
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