Trigger Finger And Reason 3, How do I set this up? Options

[ArolaMorre]

Hello everyone. . .

I have just purchased an M-Audio Trigger finger to use with Reason 3. I have an Evolution MK-449C keyboard already so I (wrongly) assumed that like my keyboard the trigger finger would "Just Work" when you plug it in (being class compliant and every thing.

Unfortunately the trigger finger pads don't make my Redrum (in Reason) make any noise. My Powerbook recieves the volume and slider MIDI info but does not respond to the pads being hit.

Does any one know how to make this work??

[wakko1999]

Here is an update, I made a remarkable discovery 5 minutes after posting above on how to make your trigger finger work with reason 3.0 on a mac. This is for anyone's benefit experiencing similar trouble as us. Here it is:

1. Go to reason prefs
2. make sure your control surface is properly identified under "control surfaces and keyboards" - this case it is the trigger finger. You want it to have a green check mark.
3. Next, go to "advanced midi" section of prefs.
4. Assign USB Trigger Finger to any of the Buses labeled Bus A through D.
5. open a new reason file, and you should notice that it opens with a green/grey device in the rack called "MIDI IN DEVICE". Here you select the appropriate bus, I used bus A and it should read USB Trigger Finger when selected.
6. If you have properly mapped out your keys, which you assign to the TF from Enigma (which I explained in my last post) then using a pad/fader/knob on the TF will activate a red light on one of the channels on the MIDI IN DEVICE in the rack. For some arbitrary reason mine is channel 10.
7. Next, you pick the channel that is in use and select a reason device to recieve the midi commands, i.e. ReDrum, Dr. Rex or whatever.

That is it, now I am looking at how to record events from the TF, it's being a little stubborn... we'll see how that goes. Anyway, hope I could help somebody out, good luck!

Channe l10 not really arbitrary. The TF ships with its global channerl set to 10. To get it to work with Reason 'out the box' so to speak, all you have to do is change the global channel on the presets (via enigma is easiest) or set reason to channel 10. Using the MIDI busses is an option also as you are using them, but ou can get TF working like a regular keyboard just by changing the global channel to the standard '1'. Also, the MIDI implementation charts in the Reason manual gives you all you need to customize TF CC's and note values for the pads. The TF manual needs some work because a lot of importantt info is written in a misleading and confusing way. Some info is just outright wrong (ie viewing global slifer settings using Peek--doesn't work. HAd to select the 'Select' button and even then you only see the knob parameter values assigned and not the global values.