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How to Use the Trigger Finger With Ableton

Ableton Live is a sequencing program with audio and MIDI capabilities that lets you compose, arrange, and edit complete songs. Ableton Live can take audio and MIDI from external devices and input the data into the sequencer for further editing. The M-Audio Trigger Finger is a small USB drum machine that connects to computers and can input MIDI drum sounds into sequencers. The Trigger Finger uses the traditional drum pad method of input, with each pad corresponding to a different drum sound.

Things You'll Need

  • USB cable
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Instructions

    • 1

      Plug one end of the USB cable into the Trigger Finger and the other end into a computer. Turn the computer and Trigger Finger on to automatically install any required drivers.

    • 2

      Double click the desktop shortcut for Ableton Live. Open a desired project when prompted on startup, and create a new MIDI track by clicking "New Track" from the "Create" menu at the top of the screen.

    • 3

      Click the "Window" menu at the top of the screen and selecting "Mixer." Locate the newly created track. Under the "MIDI From" box under the track, click and select the "Trigger Finger." Ableton now takes data from the device and inputs it to the sequencer.

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