Ableton Forum

ok, i just got a trigger finger and ableton 6. i have power to the trigger finger and am getting a respopnse to it. i cant seem to get it to respond with ableton. the keyboard works fine. i cant get the trigger finger to assign to anything. ableton is not getting a response from the midi controller. what am i missing? it is picking up the trigger finger in the preferences, but it wont respond? anyone able to help me?

Same problem here. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the drivers and tried everything that I could think off. Even reset the trigger finger to the factory settings but no luck.

Why do we all seem to be having similar problems with m-audio stuff in Live?

more info please

mac or pc?
what operating system?



how can anybody help you when you leave out vital information.

Are you referring to using it with IMPULSE?

You won't hear any response unless you have either 10 or 11 preset chosen on your trigger finger. That's using the FACTORY settings.

Can't remember if it's 10 or 11, but impulse uses non-gm standard mapping, so the preset 1 on the trigger finger won't work!

Good luck!

S Rockstar.

I returned my Trigger Finger. I'd recommend doing the same unless you use it with something other than Live.

My trigger finger works just perfectly, dunno you all seem to have these problems.

steffensen wrote:My trigger finger works just perfectly, dunno you all seem to have these problems.

+1

Just came across this. I posted this exact same problem about 1 1/2 months ago. The best I could get after rescanning the MIDI devices in the Mac OS X Audio/MIDI preferences, was about 10-15 seconds where Ableton recognized MIDI data from the TF, even though the program did see that TF was connected.

I returned the TF to the store where I bought it and had a new one sent. When I tried that a few times I got a whopping 3 minutes or so at best of Ableton recognizing incoming MIDI data..then the same crap. (To be honest, I only gave it a quick shot the second time around and have been too busy to fool around with it again, but what the heck!?!

I have a 1st generation MacBook with Core Duo/2GB RAM--not sure if anyone has ever figured this out.

Anyone? Anyone?

Vaughan wrote:Why do we all seem to be having similar problems with m-audio stuff in Live?

I rreally couldn't say...

Tarekith wrote:

Vaughan wrote:Why do we all seem to be having similar problems with m-audio stuff in Live?

I rreally couldn't say...

maybe because we all have something made by m-audio, and all manufacturers make some faulty stuff. . its just one of the only manufacturers that we ALL have stuff from. ?

I just might have to return my TF and maybe go for KontrolPad for better luck.


BTW I tried both Windows XP and Vista.

Wait, this is ridiculous.....NO ONE has seen/heard this problem mentioned before or can guess at the reason that Ableton could recognize the trigger finger, but only sometimes recognize incoming MIDI data from the device?

strange....

bad usb cable?

ARGH!--

OK, so after testing out my second Trigger Finger and running into the same problem with Ableton not recognizing incoming MIDI data after a few seconds, I finally contacted M-Audio customer service.

This is the reply e-mail I got:

"This is a known issue and we are working with Apple to resolve it. In the meantime, many users have had success using a powered USB hub to get around the issue."

(!)

So...........I'm guessing with things like this that this "working w/Apple" will go on for endless months? Haven't tried the USB hub, but that kind of defeats the whole purpose of the powering the unit from the computer via USB. (not to mention the extra cash involved)

Does anyone have a better experience with something like this or....don't hold my breath?