Assigning Trigger Finger pads to pitch bend like a CDJ

DJ Diego Vega · Post by **DJ Diego Vega** » Thu Jun 29, 2006 9:09 pm

Hi,

I'm new to the forum hello! I'm a DJ/producer born in Uruguay currently living in Ecuador... I like minimal/techno...

Anyway I just got my Trigger Finger around a week ago and have been using it to play drum samples, synths, manipulating fx, etc... I want to play with Ableton as 3rd deck incorporating it into my dj setup with my turntables and mixer. I have already assigned one of TF's fader to the tempo, but now I need two pads to act as pitch bends buttons on a cdj, how do I do this?

I have Enigma installed but I'm not sure if this is possible since there's no pitch bend function inside Ableton to assign to the controller. Inside Enigma there are presets you can load and there are pitch bend functions that you can assign but I'm not really experienced with MIDI so I don't know if it is possible or how to do it. I have searched the forum but found no clear response...

Thanks for your help,

Diego.

DJ Diego Vega · Post by **DJ Diego Vega** » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:23 pm

Anyone please? or is this not possible? BTW I'm using a Macbook and OS X Tiger...

RePeter · Post by **RePeter** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:28 pm

Welcome to the forum..... unfortunatly everybody seems to be asleep....

As you spotted, Live does not have a pitch bend function... but it does have a nudge, although it will only nudge based on the quantize value you have selected. So it is not ideal for what your after.

I had to just get use to knocking the tempo of ableton into sync by manually increasing the tempo slider.
On the arrangement page there is an option so you can customise the tempo range. I always set this 2 or 3 BPM either side of the tempo i am looking to hit.... that way you dont have to be too delicate with the slider.

DJ Diego Vega · Post by **DJ Diego Vega** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 4:40 pm

Thanks for your reply... I already figured out setting the fader's tempo range to a shorter distance to get more precision and resolution from the fader and reversing the values so it acts like a turntable (going down speeds it up, going up slows it down) So yeah like you said I've been riding the pitch like on a turntable, but with less precision, I guess being digital it is MORE precise but sometimes a pitch bend would be useful...is there any possibility that pitch bend buttons will be implemented in Live 6 ?

About the nudge, I've seen the two buttons with the arrows but this only works for one clip or channel at a time right? it's not a global nudge, or is it possible to do a global nudge to push the tempo up or down of the entire ableton project? the nudge acts kind of like a pitch bend?

stealth1 · Post by **stealth1** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 5:54 pm

DJ Diego Vega wrote:Thanks for your reply... I already figured out setting the fader's tempo range to a shorter distance to get more precision and resolution from the fader and reversing the values so it acts like a turntable (going down speeds it up, going up slows it down)

How do you do this on OSX? I saw the original thread about doing this, but it only mentioned using midi yoke on PC.

I'd really appreciate knowing

peace

DJ Diego Vega · Post by **DJ Diego Vega** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:09 am

Ok what I do is press cmd(apple)+M (or just hit the midi assign button), then you click on the tempo display to assign your controller to that (by moving your controller it will assign the tempo to that fader you moved).. when you do that in the bottom of the screen you can assign the MAX and MIN values for the range of your controller.. use something small like 120 to 130 to give more resolution to the fader, also if you set the MAX value to 120 and the MIN value to 130 it will worked reversed like cdjs or turntables work (meaning when you go down it speeds up)