Musical Instruments : M-Audio Trigger Finger Drum Pad Control Surface

Rating: - Trigger Finger triggers Nada.
The Product itself feels solid enough. But that seems to be just an illusion. I tried getting Trigger Finger to work with Reason 3.0. I could get Reason to respond to inputs from the knobs and sliders. But the most important parts, the Trigger Finger's Touch pads, flatly refused to trigger anything, not even Reason's Redrum which this unit was supposed to work well with. After spending half a day trying to fix the problem using Egnima, the softwere that allows users to assign various MIDI functions to each of the control surfaces, I finally gave up and took this pruduct back for a refund. Maybe a seasoned MIDI user can get Trigger Finger to work as it should as the Egnima software is that, an Egnima. But, I have an old Yamaha PSR-410 MIDI compatible Keyboard manufactured well before Reason ever came into existence. It took control of Reason the moment I plugged it in and set it up in Reason's prefs. So with that logged in may mental notes, I kind of expect something like the Trigger Finger to work right out of the box without any fuss or muss other than seting it up in Reason's prefs. To which it failed misserably at doing. So Trigger Finger gets one star out of me. Sorry M-Audio, better luck next time.