M-Audio Trigger Finger Drum Pad Control Surface | 
| Brand: M-Audio
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Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 1934
Media: Electronics
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Dimensions (in): 12.9 x 11.3 x 3.5
16-Pad MIDI Drum Controller for Itchy Trigger Fingers More DJas, Hip Hop artists and electronic musicians are leaning towards software based setups to create beats and grooves due to the huge variety of sounds available as well as the limitless opportunities for mangling sounds that sofware offers. But most beat-makers feel that their most interesting patterns comes from banging out a rhythm on the edge of the desk or on their knees, which is much more intuitive than using a MIDI keyboard or the tiny finger pads on many drum machines. M-Audioas Trigger Finger offers DJas, Hip-Hop artists and drum programmers an easy-to-use dedicated drum pad controller, which offers larger pads than most drum machines. M-Audio Trigger Finger at a Glance: Dedicated MIDI drum control surface with 16 velocity and pressure sensitive pads. 8 assignable knobs, 4 assignable faders with pre-programmed maps 16 MIDI Presets and editor/librarian software included. Powered via USB connection, fully Mac and PC compliant. Play Expressively with Velocity and Pressure Sensitive Pads M-Audio Trigger Fingeras 16 "MPC" sized velocity and pressure sensitive pads contribute to the feel of triggering "real" drums and percussion, ensemble "blasts", and virtually any sample or loop requiring a more percussive method of playing. Or, for VJs, Trigger Finger can even control video projections - and applying pressure to the pads can generate any MIDI controller you wish.
MPN: 9900-50855-00
Model: 9900-40855-00
UPC: 612391800109
EAN: 0612391800109
ASIN: B000800B6U
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Trigger Finger allows musicians to harness the expressive potential of their software | | • | 8 assignable knobs, 4 assignable faders | | • | 16 velocity and pressure-sensitive pads | | • | Individual assignable pressure on each pad | | • | Powered from USB connection or optional DC power supply |
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Product Description
Trigger Finger puts the power to program and perform expressive percussion and drum parts at your fingertips. Its 16 velocity-sensitive pads are perfect for playing the drum sounds in your favorite software, launching loops and samples, or even controlling video projections-and applying pressure to the pads can generate any MIDI controller you wish. Trigger Finger also gives you 8 knobs and 4 faders that are freely assignable to MIDI parameters such as volume, pan, pitch, and effects. Settings are easy to store via 16 presets, and M-Audio's free Enigma editor/librarian software for PC and Mac lets you create a collection of even more. A simple USB cable is all it takes to connect and power Trigger Finger with your computer. 16 MIDI presets Programmable with free Enigma editor/librarian software 3-digit LED display Class-compliant with Windows XP and Mac OS X ncludes free Ableton Live Lite 4 software and demo songs
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 If you can tap out a rhythm with your fingers... March 17, 2006
Simon Allardice (Scottsdale, AZ USA)
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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.
 Trigger Finger alowa you total control of your drums March 20, 2006
Robert H. Cooper (Cleveland, Ohio)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Light, nice and useful, even if not as a drum pad August 13, 2007
G. Maldonado (Roma, RM Italy)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
Instructions on how to get the Trigger Finger to work with Propellerheads Reason September 30, 2007
Matt Jones
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Trigger Finger triggers Nada. February 17, 2006
Adam W. Chapin (Grand Rapids, MI)
1 out of 17 found this review helpful
The Product itself feels solid enough. But that seems to be just an illusion. I tried getting Trigger Finger to work with Reason 3.0. I could get Reason to respond to inputs from the knobs and sliders. But the most important parts, the Trigger Finger's Touch pads, flatly refused to trigger anything, not even Reason's Redrum which this unit was supposed to work well with. After spending half a day trying to fix the problem using Egnima, the softwere that allows users to assign various MIDI functions to each of the control surfaces, I finally gave up and took this pruduct back for a refund. Maybe a seasoned MIDI user can get Trigger Finger to work as it should as the Egnima software is that, an Egnima. But, I have an old Yamaha PSR-410 MIDI compatible Keyboard manufactured well before Reason ever came into existence. It took control of Reason the moment I plugged it in and set it up in Reason's prefs. So with that logged in may mental notes, I kind of expect something like the Trigger Finger to work right out of the box without any fuss or muss other than seting it up in Reason's prefs. To which it failed misserably at doing. So Trigger Finger gets one star out of me. Sorry M-Audio, better luck next time.
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