The hardware is extremely pretty and well-made. I won’t go into a big review of the hardware or even the software itself, but here’s a quick run-down. At the moment, although at some point I’ll need to add paging to some of the screens, I’ve covered everything I need without requiring a larger deck. If Elgato ends up making a Stream Deck XL in white (very important) I would probably upgrade, and move this smaller one into my music room to make working with Logic Pro easier. The amount of time I’ve saved has more than paid for the time I’ve spent configuring it already. I’ve spent a bit of time customising the deck since I recieved it, and I’ve well and truly fallen in love with it. Obviously I’m using some specific applications and I’m working on a Mac but hopefully some of this will be relevant to other platforms. In this post I’m going to talk a bit about how I’ve configured the deck (and made some tweaks in MacOS) and how I use it. Many years ago I used AutoHotKey to convert a MS Sculpt numpad into a media and macro pad, and I also built avery dodgy stomp box around an Arduino Nano that used AHK to automate some annoyingly repetitive Visual Studio actions. I also wanted to play around with a macro pad, as I use a number of different applications for knowledge management and development, and I often found it frustrating having to figure out the right shortcuts or have to navigate menus to do the same thing in each app. I didn’t have a big need for one but I had some credits on Amazon so it didn’t end up costing much. I bought myself an Elgato Stream Deck MK2 a few weeks ago.
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