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Is anyone using a wacom tablet?
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Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:49 pmby The Tasmanian
Is anyone using a wacom tablet with Ptools ?
Easier than a mouse or trackball?
Faster?
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Chris Townend
BJBStudios
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:11 pmby jkhuri44
chris,
i used to....stopped using it, gave me the shits pretty quickly.
it ended up being way to fluid, and i started working way too quickly ...and made mistakes more often! :P
also the mechanism is rather sensitive....i do admit to having used a wacom about 6 yrs ago...so no idea what they're like now!
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:18 pmby Kurt
I've often wondered about using a tablet too. Speaking of alternate controls... Has anyone tried using a touch-screen to drive their DAW?
I'm toying with the idea of getting a touch-screen and running the mixer window of Sonar in it. Only limitation is affordable touch-screens are single point so you could only grab one fader/knob at a time.
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:06 pmby The Tasmanian
What about any new Trackball developments?
Its the RSI from mousing around....its been going for years now, trying to find a new solution.
Chris
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:41 pmby musikwerks
It's the one thing I miss most an then one thing I'm looking to put back in my set up.
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 4:35 pmby mfdu
i suffer from regular office-induced RSI, and i also have 'skateboard wrist' (ie. i've snapped my wrists once too often)
so i've been using kensington Turbo Ball track balls for years now. couldn't do without 'em!
not just the fact of better control in movement due to the extra-large ball (he he he) but not requiring a mouse pad is a benefit as well.
and assignable buttons on the 'expertmouse pro' mean that i can assign main functions to the hot keys - start / stop / record, scroll fwd, scroll back, hokey pokey - now that's what its all about!!!!
Posted:
Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:35 pmby The Tasmanian
I use a trackball now on my left hand - and wondering if a wacom tablet might be quicker or easier in any way - specifically for pro tools operations. Is anyone doing this?
Chris
Posted:
Sat Jul 25, 2009 6:27 pmby Brent
This looks promising:
http://dawtouch.com
Brent Punshon
Posted:
Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:30 pmby no-fi
"Patent pending" on a bog standard touchecreen?
hahahaha!
Posted:
Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:05 pmby jkhuri44
awesome design aesthetic too!
:P
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:35 pmby Sheer Noise
I'm assuming that any old 30" Touchscreen and a nice 15degree frame will do the same job yeah? Great idea... I wonder how it'd go... especially if it has multitouch!
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:59 pmby heathen
Come to think of it my fingers don't hurt anymore since I hav'nt done any editing for a year.
Unless the touch screen was very responsive it would drive me nuts, my korg triton has a touch screen and it's useful but can get just as annoying as a mouse.
The main thing I find really annoying about working on a daw is constantly looking in the same direction at the screen. I want glasses with the screen inbuilt so I can be looking anywhere and see whats going on. Then again it may make me sick, won't know though until tried.