Buy Alesis Trigger I/O Percussion Pad to MIDI InterfaceAlesis Trigger I/O Percussion Pad to MIDI Interface Product Description:
- 10 TRS Trigger Inputs for Single or Dual Zone Trigger Inputs (compatible with various Manufacturer Pad Triggers, including Alesis, Roland and Yamaha)
- 20 Programmable Presets for Storing and Recalling Various Setups
- Includes BFD Lite Software Drum Module (Mac and PC) with Professional Quality Acoustic and Electronic Drums in standalone, VST, AU and DXi plug-in formats
- Customizable Trigger Settings for Gain, Assignment of MIDI Channels, Note Numbers, Crosstalk, velocity curve, threshold, re-trigger time and pad type
- Includes BFD Lite Software Drum Module with Professional Quality Acoustic and Electronic Drums in standalone, VST, AU and DXi plug-in formats
- Customizable Trigger Settings for Gain, Assignment of MIDI Channels, Note Numbers, Crosstalk, velocity curve, threshold, re-trigger time
Product Description
The Alesis Trigger|io is a powerful new electronic percussion interface designed to capture the feel of a real drum performance while also harnessing the expansive capability of software and hardware sound modules. The Trigger|io converts input from your favorite percussion pads to make them usable as MIDI note messages for triggering sounds in software and hardware devices. Featuring both MIDI and USB connectivity, the Trigger|io can be connected to your favorite software or hardware synth or drum module, and comes bundled with FXPansion's BFD Lite, a professional software drum module with high-quality acoustic and electronic drum kit libraries.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
10 dual-zone triggers doesn't mean 10 dual-zone triggers
By fluffy
First of all, the user interface on this is horrible. Setting the triggers up is painful, fiddly, and error-prone, and it's way too easy to accidentally wipe out a correct setting because of the simplistic UI and lack of PC-based configuration application.But the main reason I'm rating this so low is that the cymbal support on this is absolutely lousy. Each of the 10 trigger inputs apparently is intended to only support a single trigger type (specific to a certain kind of drum - tom, snare, ride, crash, etc.), and of all of the cymbal inputs ONLY the ride input actually supports dual-zone triggers.This issue is only alluded to in any of the product documentation (much of which is buried on the Alesis website and not even included with the device), and there is no workaround for the issue; Alesis' own support forum has several threads about this. Many people have asked, "How do I use a dual-zone cymbal trigger for the crash?" The official answer is: "You can't."Well, okay, the official answer is that the second zone for EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE RIDE can only be used for a clench function. Except that the clench function is broken and doesn't work with any of my drum software, because it's intended to work with BFD Lite and ONLY BFD Lite. Which is no longer available, and no longer works on a modern-day Mac because it's PowerPC-only anyway.Basically, they've put in artificial restrictions on how a general-purpose device can be used, and this makes it incredibly frustrating. Sure, I can use it in the exact, asininely limited way that Alesis expected, but I can't actually use it for the things I was led to believe it could be!I am likely to never buy another Alesis product ever again, because everything I've gotten from them has these same sort of issues; for example, the ControlPad is ALMOST usable except that the hi-hat implementation is incompatible with everything else (except BFD Lite, of course). I don't WANT to use BFD Lite, I want to use my perfectly-good drum modules that work with everything else on the planet, EXCEPT ALESIS STUFF, apparently!Of course I originally had reservations of going with an Alesis product to begin with (because of how bad the ControlPad turned out to be, as well as the Ion iED-01 which is just a rebranded Alesis product) but there don't seem to be any other drum trigger modules on the market which are JUST a trigger module. I don't want to spend $700+ on a trigger module with a built-in sample engine, I just want a controller for my existing synths! Is that really so hard?Alesis typifies what I hate about the pro audio market; everything is designed with a very specific use case in mind, and it completely falls apart outside of their tiny product testing window. They don't care about the customer, they care about providing stupid proprietary solutions that can't work together with an existing setup or workflow.So, I'm never buying Alesis again. If only there were some reasonable alternatives.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Bought this for a friend
By Sergio Q. Fuentes
He is a sound engineer, it works great, it's been like two years and he hasn't have any problems with it. The ideal purchase.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.great
By Ancient
i use these with my Ion 01 drums, works great however rather than a single drum kit, i use them as cymbal splashs with a real kit, works great! didn't notice any dual triggers but you get what you pay for just use a different channel.
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