Trigger finger vs Korg PadKontrol

jamesparkes · Post by **jamesparkes** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:52 pm

Anyone had a go on both/either of these or know much about how they work with Live?? They look similar with only a couple of differences. I'm after something tactile to trigger clips in a DJ/live performance situation. Anyone happy with theirs (either item)? Or regretting the day they paid their money.
Cheers,
James

wontwa · Post by **wontwa** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:43 pm

If you run a search this has been discussed a bunch of times...

mosca · Post by **mosca** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 1:52 pm

i have both

the pad kontrol is better than the trigger finger

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jamesparkes · Post by **jamesparkes** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 9:29 pm

I have tried doing a search and all I got that was close to the subject was someone asking if you can hit the trigger finger with drum sticks. This is why I posted a thread myself. Can you explain why you prefer the korg over the trigger finger if you have them both? Any advise would be great (and please no more clever dicks saying to "do a search").
Cheers, James

loachm · Post by **loachm** » Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:05 pm

Trigger Finger - more knobs & sliders, better quality of the box

Padkontrol - better pads, x/y-controller

...assuming you don't drop your controller regulary, I'd vote for the Padkontrol. Its pads are better, it has an x/y controller and the quality difference of the box's quality is somewhat minor - the Padkontrol just has some side panels, which I don't like, but they aren't bad...

Ben_Binary · Post by **Ben_Binary** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 5:48 am

The Korg has ROLL and FLAM buttons.

This kills it IMO

Does it trigger these rolls and flams as midi ?

tokyojoe69 · Post by **tokyojoe69** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:00 am

Anybody had any news on the akai, I'm still holding out for that, but I'm losing my patience...

Cheers
TokyoJoe

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:34 am

mosca wrote:i have both

the pad kontrol is better than the trigger finger

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+1. Although I've started using the FSR system in the TF quite a bit for live stuff. Nothing beats tweaking 6 or 8 parameters at the same time...

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 8:36 am

Ben_Binary wrote:The Korg has ROLL and FLAM buttons.

This kills it IMO

Does it trigger these rolls and flams as midi ?

yes. And you can program it to only do rolls/flams on certain pads.

alvaro · Post by **alvaro** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 10:35 am

Can anyone answer if microkontrol trigger pads are identical to padKONTROL ones? ... By the pics i have seen, they must be...

well, the Padkontrol ones seem larger, but in quality terms.... are they identical?

amorat · Post by **amorat** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:00 pm

I sold my microKontroll because the pads were so crappy! I now own a padKontrol and it's oke...the unit is quite easy to get into it and the pads are not too responsive but good enough for my needs. the whole unit is below 1kg and beautifully small, looks a bit better than the maudio (imo) and for me works as it should.

jamesparkes · Post by **jamesparkes** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:37 pm

I was thinking along the lines of using the pads on the Trigger finger to control the clips across 4 'decks' (4 clips to each deck) while the faders control volume levels instead of using the crossfader. The 8 knobs along the top looked good for possibly acting as 2 aux sends for each of the 4 decks, or maybe panning and one aux send. I really want to get my teeth into Live for DJing and I wish there was one controller to take care of all my needs. I'm currently using my X-Station keyboard with the knobs and faders assigned to various parameters but I'm just not feeling it from this controller. The Faderfox units look good but they also look very small. I like the idea of hitting some nice big pads. I've seen the demo of the flam/roll feature and it looks pretty good. Not too handy for DJing though. I might have to opt for the M-Audio. Although I'd be interested to see what Akai are coming up with before I spend my money. Its all very stressful!

Kodama · Post by **Kodama** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 3:45 pm

From what I hear, the akai won't be out until xmas and it's huge.

I love my X-Station, trying to hack it to do the automap thing also....

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Thu Aug 31, 2006 4:13 pm

amorat wrote:I now own a padKontrol and it's oke...the unit is quite easy to get into it and the pads are not too responsive but good enough for my needs.

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- I haven't ever tried ANY drum trigger that was as sensitive as the PadKontrol...