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help with an m-audio trigger finger and reason

9 March, 2008 - 13:45 — tater

my friend just got his trigger finger and we are able to get reason and ableton to recognize the controller and when we slide faders and twist knobs in Reason, it responds. but when we use the pads, we get nothing. i have an akai mpd24 and i know i have to have it on bank A in order to work, for example, the Redrum. so does he have to have it the same way? the display on the trigger finger doesnt help much when navigating. like i said, we move knobs and faders and they will move in the Redrum, but the pads are getting nothing. can anyone give some input? i know must of you have mpd24s ( everyone other thread is about one), but we really need some help. or if anyone has a link to a good manual or walk-thru, video, anything thats a tutorial for a m-audio trigger finger.

thanks !!!

tater

‹ yes, it is another Akai MPD24 topic! How to restore MPD24 factory presets with Vyzex software ›

9 March, 2008 - 22:21 — matt
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Hey tater, sweet something other than a mpd24 question ;)

Is he using a Mac or PC?

Ok, its sending midi through to Reason alright... thats obviously the first thing. Also, according to the m-audio website, the trigger finger has a pre-programmed Reason preset. Have you selected that already?

Ahah! I just read that apparently the Trigger Finger ships with the default global midi channel set to channel 10. So, to work around this, either switch Reason to listen to midi channel 10, or change the Trigger Finger settings to send as whatever midi channel you're wanting to use... (eg midi channel 1 is generally the industry standard default, and should trigger almost any software). I'm not familiar with the Trigger Finger settings, but presumably you can do this either on the controller itself via its menu, or via some piece of software that came with it? I'm almost 100% certain thats whats going wrong here...

Another thing to check if that doesn't work - are you using the latest trigger finger drivers? Here is the windows XP driver Version: 4.3.00, Release Date: December 31, 2007

Also you might want to patch Reason to the latest version, but I really think that midi channel 10 thing is whats happening...

10 March, 2008 - 02:56 — tater
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thanks alot matt, i think we are on the right track. before i read this, i was over at his house last nite with akai over and got the same reaction out of my pad?! so def something going on with his reason cause mine didnt do that.

oh and he has a reg mac book, but the last OS. so ill forward this to him and see if this doesnt help......to be continued

10 March, 2008 - 11:12 — matt
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Oh wait - maybe he has the Redrum option "channel 8 and 9" ticked? That might do it?

10 March, 2008 - 17:02 — tater
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got it working!!!!

turns out that in Reason 4 and trigger finger, you have to set the trigger finger as a midi controller keyboard with controls. we had it just as a midi controller , not the keyboard one. knew it was something simple. makes since seeing how the pads, and depending on what bank your in, act as keys on a piano.

thanks again as always good sir

10 March, 2008 - 17:44 — matt
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Aha! Apparently also if you patch Reason to the latest version, you should have available the "Trigger Finger" preset in Reason midi controllers...

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