![]() 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 may be wrong but think that if one of the five buttons is programmed for splitting that should allow performing about three-quarters or more of my timeline-based editing with one hand.I have one, I use it mostly to navigate through screen layouts, zooming and such. In playing around last night I found I could leave the timeline at pretty much any zoom setting, use the scrub wheel to rapidly find any section and then the jog wheel to fine-tune the displayed frame. In my projects so far I've spent quite a bit of time expanding and contracting the timeline to find exactly the right place to make splits to cut things out. Where I see this being a potential time-saver is using the Jog and Shuttle for messing about in the timeline for splits. So far I haven't done any extensive editing but did open up a recent project and play around. ![]() The SX doesn't really replace the mouse or the keyboard, but rather augments them as a dedicated transport control with Jog & Shuttle controls. The keyboard, mouse and ShuttleXpress are all connected and usable at the same time. ![]() Quote: Does the ShuttleXpress replace the mouse or do you have both installed and functional at the same time?
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