Which is good, because I think the software is deprecated and no longer being updated for new versions of MacOS - but it's a cheap way to see if an actual hardware knob can duplicate the scroll wheel, and if that's of any use to you. I don't think you need to mess with their fiddly software to just get that functionality, just plug it into USB and you should be knobbing away at whatever the cursor is hovering over, no need to hit a button to decide between vertical, horizontal, or rotary. I used to have one, and I believe it just duplicates the native scroll wheel functionality that your computer already has, but with a nice aluminum knob.
If you just want a hardware knob and don't want to mess with trackballs, mouse wheels, etc. Just move the cursor around the screen to hover over any fader, knob, slider, whatever - and then spin the ring. Since your finger is right there anyway, it takes less effort and time than reaching for a hardware knob. So by default, turning the scroll ring will be like turning an on-screen control (knob, slider, whatever) whenever the cursor hovers above it - no need to click first, and it will correctly adjust the control whether it's a rotary knob or a slider / fader. The Kensington Expert Mouse trackball has four buttons and a scroll ring (like the scroll wheel on a mouse).
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Any mouse or trackball with a scroll wheel or ring can do that already (at least on Mac it does), and you don't need to hit any buttons or even click on anything first. I just didn't see anything in that video or on their website that would make me think it can do much that I can't already do - and the bit about needing to hit a button to determine whether the knob is going to control a horizontal/vertical/rotary knob seems a bit of a joke. Seems like a weak sub-set of features that have existed for decades. QuicKeys users have long been able to create custom key commands, outside of those available within an application, and including mouse recording for non-key-command-accessible screen elements like pop-up menus, and these can all be triggered by computer keyboard or even MIDI input - so you can record any mouse click and trigger it from a key command or a button on a hardware controller, TouchOSC, etc. This is all old stuff - that a Kensington Expert Mouse trackball has been able to do for 15 years now. the knob is like the scroll wheel on a mouse - position the cursor over a control and move the knob, except, unlike a scroll wheel, now you have to hit one of three buttons to determine if it's going to be a vertical, horizontal, or rotary control?Īnd the arcade buttons can trigger a key command, like a zillion other devices can?Īnd I can use buttons to flick the cursor to pre-determined spots across multiple monitors?
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