In fact, it's so flat you hardly notice it sits under your wrist/hand. From the images on the web, you might think the ShuttlePRO v2 still has a border the height of a centimetre or so, but that's an optical illusion. The design of the ShuttlePRO v2 is such that it helps to keep your wrist and shoulder healthy. It's really a specialised tool to enhance the user experience in specific applications.Īnd enhancing it does. That extra step is why the ShuttlePRO v2 isn't just another mouse. It is not intended to be, although you could use it to scroll through Finder windows, provided you first place the mouse in the window that is in focus. The ShuttlePRO v2 is not a mouse replacement. I was prepared for a device that I could use in NLEs and a few photo editors only, but I found that one of the reasons why the ShuttlePRO v2 (and ShuttleXpress too, for that matter) is such an interesting device is its impressive application support. With the introduction of the new driver (v3), I finally got the opportunity to review the ShuttlePRO v2. Over the years, Contour Design released a ShuttleXpress and the ShuttlePRO v2. I have always been fascinated by their ergonomic shuttle device, the ShuttlePRO. The result would be a multi-step process reduced to a single button.I know Contour Design for as long as I write about Mac products, which is well over two decades. A typical example might be to program a command + keystroke, then a short pause, then another key command. Almost any command is available including things like closing or saving documents, different types of mouse click and even running Macros which you can configure. This is fast and easy, and you can also change the wheel behaviours to suit. There are multiple buttons, all of which are pre-programmed for specific tasks or commands but can be quickly re-programmed using the editor. Otherwise you can be turning the jog wheel and wonder why nothing is happening, then realise it’s because you haven’t selected the timeline yet, for example. This works really well, with the very minor caveat that in apps where different areas can have focus you have to remember to make sure the part of the window you want is active. In use, the Shuttle automatically detects the app that’s in the foreground and adapts to its controller set. The build quality is good and the size just about right for most hands, either left or right.Ī list of the currently supported apps, which gets updated regularly Auto detect The buttons are not labelled because they can do more or less anything depending on the app you’re in. Download the driver software and you can customise any template, or indeed make your own, but more of this in a moment. The ShuttlePro v2 is its latest, a sleek and lightweight multi-controller that comes with templates for a dizzyingly wide range of applications for Mac and PC. So why shouldn’t a controller be able to handle all of them, at least to a useful extent? Blasting offĬontour Designs specialises in multimedia controller devices that do just this. In a typical day, I myself will use office, DAW, video editing, photo editing, web browsing and screen capture software as a bare minimum, and often more than that. And while there has been a lot of development in the field of hands-on controllers for specific DAWs or even ecosystems like NI’s Komplete Kontrol, these don’t satisfactorily cross over to other kinds of software like audio visual or even Office applications.Īnd yet creatives frequently work across many disciplines. Creative software long ago passed the point where it became so powerful that a simple keyboard and mouse or trackpad are less than ideal methods for controlling it effectively.
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