![]() ![]() The easiest and most flexible way to communicate with arbitrary music controllers such as the Trigger Finger is via classic serial MIDI. The Arduino Uno R3 is an excellent candidate for this and costs USD 21.95 on Amazon. So essentially we need a USB device that can enumerate as an F1 and send and receive the custom HID reports. It turns out the F1 works as a custom HID device and communicates with a fairly simple 22 byte input report and 81 byte output report. The important data from these efforts are the F1’s USB descriptor dump and the description and analysis of the data sent between F1 and Traktor. Luckily, this work was already done by fatlimey and detailed in a GitHub project called hack-the-f1 and then further extended by Andrew Bythell with his femulator project (you can read about these excellent projects and more in this thread on the DJ TechTools forum). The first part of the process is understanding how the F1 communicates with Traktor. M-Audio Trigger Finger- Sad & gray, but great pads! Besides, the pile of Native Instruments products on my shelf is growing very high (Traktor Kontrol X1, Traktor Kontrol S4, Maschine, Komplete 7, Traktor Scratch Pro 2, etc.) so I thought this might be a good time to get my head back into some hardware hacking and build my own solution and my M-Audio Trigger Finger was looking sad and unused. The F1 is a nifty piece of kit, but in Jamaica we pay very high shipping, custom and tax charges on things like this, so a USD 279 F1 very quickly becomes a USD 500 F1 or more. As of Traktor 2.6.2 the Remix Decks now are mappable. To use them to their full potential, you have to purchase the Traktor Kontrol F1 controller. You can read all about them here.Īlthough one of Traktor’s strengths is the ability to create complex MIDI mappings for almost any of its controls, the Remix Decks are unfortunately limited to a very basic level of mapping. Basically each of the decks in Traktor can be used as a 4×16 sample player, with a lot of neat features including sync, various stop/start/loop modes, individual filters on each column and so on. turns out the F1 only boots properly when it's connected to a computer on which the controller editor is installed.Native Instruments introduced a great new concept in Traktor 2.5.0 – the Remix Decks. Off to find something similar, if anyone has any suggestions. this seems to be one of the most singular pieces of kit I've ever owned, little to no flexibility outside of Traktor (which I don't use) it's a pain to set up, probably since it wasn't built for the intention I had in mind pads aren't made for fingerdrumming (they somewhat click, no velocity) Some other cons (apart from it not working) But I get that's what you get for trying something unusual. ![]() Really blows, since I have no other use for this device. Since it's impossible to install the NI Controller Editor on the MPC, I'm afraid this is a dead end. Lights do a flashy rainbow thing, then stay off. It's the same when you plug it into a laptop without the controller editor. ![]() Not even after mapping all the pads to corresponding notes instead of regular CC-messages. Hooking it up to my MPC doesn't do anything. turns out the F1 only boots properly when it's connected to a computer on which the controller editor is installed. ![]()
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