battery 3 with M audio Trigger finger

I'm hoping I over looked somthing being that I purchased these 2 products together.

The trigger finger only has 16 pads as any standard drum machine. Most kits in battery have more that 16 samples. is there a feature that lets you partition the kits and easily switch back and forth?

Seems like you'd be able to split the samples on different pages and easily toggle back and forth.

any ideas?

 

Don't have Trigger Finger, but do have Roland HPD-15 and Akai MPD16; if you want to use B3 kits with more than 16 cells without editing, would think the simplest solution is to set up separate presets on the Trigger Finger, say, one mapped for triggering standard kit sounds, and one for percussion. I handle it by usually having at least two instances of B3 in my tracks, one kit, one percussion. But if you want to stick to the one map/preset on the Trigger Finger, then no other option but to program up your own kits in B3, restricting each to the 16 sounds you want most in that kit. It's easy and quick to do, B3's editing/customisation facilities (bugs and annoying limitations aside) are it's main selling points, to my mind.

 

Enigma (free editing software on the M-Audio website) can make it easier to set up different preset configurations on the trigger finger. That way you can customize the layout of the 16 pads for certain notes and recall those configurations easily.
Often times for the big kits it is easier to play around with a midi keyboard and then when you have settled on the cells you like, configure those notes onto the trigger finger with enigma.

 

I have the same setup and I ended up changing the trigger notes inside battery to adjust what pads trigger what drum. Is it just me or is Enigma hard to use? Also its a bummer they dont have a preset for Battery, they have presets for just about every other software drum machine. Anyone who is familiar with Enigma and Trigger finger, I would really appreciate a short explination on how to change configurations to work in Battery, Thanks.

 

i made presets one through 8 on the tf chromatic pads starting w/ c0


or you could set up each row of cells on a different midi channel and use the channel slider to switch mdi channel

that works fine for me too