PhillipOrdonez wrote: ↑04 Apr 2024
selig wrote: ↑29 Jan 2023
Happy to help with any questions!
Hey Selig,
Watched your stream. It was a very long time ago and I wonder if you've settled on a workflow that fits your needs? How much has it changed since?
I'm still pretty new to it, and at the moment feel they the best use for this device is to launch apps and devices and to perform multiple repetitive tasks. I'm loving using it on my daw to load devices with one button press. Both in reason and live, being able to press one button and loading any instrument and effect is such a time saver and efficiency, workflow boost for me!
I'm still totally relying on it, to the point I'm forgetting the key commands in some cases (not a huge deal, but realize it comes with the territory I guess). One thing I totally appreciate is having things be consistent from app to app. I have zoom in/out buttons for Reason, LUNA, Fuzz Measure, even KeyNote. I'm almost always using these buttons now, along with other common functions such as aligning or distributing objects in drawing apps.
In Reason, my "three page" approach, which aligns with Mixer View, Rack View, and Sequencer View, is still making sense because as you navigate to the different screens the buttons follow. Which just means the zoom buttons appear in the sequencer page, the Flip Rack or Reduce Cable Clutter only appear in Rack View, and New Bus or Create Parallel Channel appear in the Mixer View, etc.
Some of the most used buttons are (in no particular order): Mix/Rack/Seq buttons, Browser show/hide, Sort Selected, App Zoom 120/200% toggle, Reset Device, Combine, Auto Route, and ALL of the zoom related buttons such as in/out, taller/shorter, and Zoom to Selection.
It really is easy enough to make new buttons on the fly that I've done that a few times now, or sometimes just dragging things into a better layout/order or changing a font size/color to fine tune the "experience". About my only complaint would be that on the stand it is too "sloped" (and slides forward when you push a button!), and without the stand it is too flat to read the buttons well from my seated position. I'm considering contacting a one man shop that 3D printed some synth stands and see if they can make one that is "just right"!