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Contour shuttle pro 2 sound forge 107/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Above it are nine buttons with a further long black button to either side. For those who fall somewhere in-between, the Contour Designs Shuttle Pro v2 might appeal.Ĭonnecting via USB and operating via the appropriate Mac or Windows driver downloaded from the Contour Designs web site, this little controller is centred around a pair of concentric wheels, the middle one a detented rotary encoder and the outer one sprung with around ☙0 degrees of travel. It's totally programmable per application, so I have profiles for Sonar, Reaper, Soundforge, Vegas, Beyond TV, Power DVD, Windows Media Player, VLC, etc.Some people are happy to drive their DAWs and video editors entirely from a keyboard and mouse, while others are only satisfied when their hardware controller stretches from wall to wall in front of several screens. IOW, pressing play for instance in Sonar does a spacebar, but when another program has focus, it might do the actual "multimedia-play" function. When I have Sonar loaded, the buttons all transmit stuff that Sonar understands. So, when I'm running Beyond TV, the buttons all transmit stuff that does something with it. As far as the remote goes, I use the free version of LM Remote Keymap, which can recognize when an execuatble program has focus, and load a profile that you customize for it. Only client side software (Beyond TV), which is only active if I'm watching live or recorded video on my DAW. Works out real well in that I don't have to have any hardware tuners or recording software on my DAW. I have setup in my house an HTPC server in my livingroom that machines in every other room can access, including my DAW. But for me it is just duplicating buttons that I already had. I really do think that it is an excellent device that could be helpfull to many people. Again, I can do that fine with shortcuts on my regular keyboard. I jump through my song through markers or by measures. I never felt the need to jog at all (why DO you guys jog?). What difference does it make if I push buttons on a further-away device that I might as well push on my keyboard? My hand is always closer to the PC keyboard than the Shuttle, so I right no it seems it can only make my workflow slower. I can trigger functions on it, but i might as well set a shortcut on my regular keyboard, or use the ones that is already there. ![]() I am not really convinced what it's value is (in sonar context). There are numurous times I say to myself that I should try and use it more often, but somehow it always wears down. I have one standing next to my keyboard as well. It is one of those things that bring un the proverbial "Swiss Army knife" definition. It takes about five seconds to change al port numbers. I've assigned it to the jog wheel and I just need to select the first port field and scroll down the list of 400 sysex banks with the wheel. I have programmed a macro in the Shuttle Pro that presses "P", for port, types the selected number, presses "enter", and then hits "down arrow" to jump to the next sysex bank. To name one silly application I've come up with, I haven't found a way to send midi bank dumps to my Waldorf MicroQ, because Sonar puts patches in Sysex View and the midi port defaults to 1, while the synth is always in another. You can reprogram it on the fly, without closing Sonar, and even have several different presets and choose them, and it keeps a macro library so it is very fast to assign one to a button if you have some infrequent task that would require it. I like it very much, but I do not really see it as a control surface, but rather a device to program sequences of keyboard shortcuts and key macros. I like it because you can program key macros, and you can program buttons to cycle through them as you press, so one, for instance, brings track view, and each time you press the button shows a different panel tab. I have one, I use it mostly to navigate through screen layouts, zooming and such. ![]()
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