Ableton+TriggerFinger User wants to go Traktor Route - advice ??

**metaverse** · 07-23-2009, 11:22 AM

BIG BIG thanks !

That cleared up alot of unknowns for me. I'll update this thread with my progress.

thanks again

**CerebralExcretion** · 07-23-2009, 11:43 AM

cant find my old mapping but i found the trigger finger much easier to use if i rotated it with the sliders towards me and nobs running down the lefthand side. This way you can have a correctly positioned cross fader and the eq knobs can be mapped like more conventional mixers.

**jasonj** · 07-23-2009, 11:26 PM

I use ableton and the trigger finger as well.

Cue point juggling is easy enough.
What you need to do is to take and make a clip from where you want the cue to begin. This can be of anything, a song section, loop, whole course, one shot.
Next, how fast do you want to be able to trigger the sample, go into the clips Launch Panel and change the quantize setting, or the launch setting to whatever works for you.

then map your trigger finger to how ever you want to use with the setup

Here is a great little vid where Dylan explains how he sets up his trigger finger with ableton live.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1Ko630Ytc

**metaverse** · 07-24-2009, 07:30 PM

Thanks guys

**djerikt** · 07-25-2009, 03:15 PM

I use the Trigger Finger with Traktor Pro myself, here are 2 things Im experiencing.

1) The preset selector P1...P16 works ok, but I can't get it to work with 'soft takeover'. switching between scenes, I had the knobs set to control EQ on P13 and FX on P14. But when I would turn the knob again, it would jump to the absolute knob position instead of soft takeover. To get around it, I use modifiers, but still figuring it out (anyone know a fix?).

2) I may have the velocity settings wrong, but when using it to cue tracks, I have the cue button set as 'cue up' where I press a pad and then upon lifting up, it plays the track. I guess a few times last night I didn't press initially hard enough, because it didn't sense a press down, so my press up didn't start the track. I missed a few mixes this way. This are more cue button options that changed in the version Traktor Pro 1.2 so Im gonna explore that.

All in all, I have my Trigger Finger working so I have mouse-free operation, still tweaking the settings.