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Triggerfinger + Reason

ok so i'm running reason as a re-wire slave and i am also using an m-audio triggerfinger drum pad midi controller. i really enjoy using these two programs together, however i am having some trouble using triggerfinger with reason. while using redrum i can only get some pads to play the drums. the other pads either hit the mute button or just don't play anything at all. apparently triggerfinger has reason maps, but i could only find one preset that works with redrum so far, and it didn't come with a manual so i'm completely lost on how to assign pads (in either reason or live). if, say i was using a keyboard controller instead, (which i do use), i have no problem using the whole kit. all i really want to do though is have all 16 pads play each redrum drum sound; meaning a full kit. i'm using reason 3.0 and live 5.2 by the way. i'm also kind of new to this stuff, so bare with me if some of this stuff sounds very obvious. thanks.

A Question About Using Two Midi Controllers

right now i'm running live with reason (slaved) on an ibook. i have an m-audio o2 midi keyboard controller and i plan to add an akai mpd16 midi drum pad controller. my question is this: in either live and/or reason, would it be possible to have one controller, say the m-audio, set to one channel, while another controller (the akai in this case) set to a separate channel so i can use both controllers similtaneously but having both producing different sounds (ie: the akai for drum sounds and the m-audio for synths)? any help on this matter would be appreciated.