Mon Oct 08, 2018 11:01 am
Ed,
Unless Elgato comes out with a 64-key Stream Deck, I don’t see it becoming a viable alternative to the Launchpad as a standalone stop controller. But it does look like fun, and has some interesting capabilities that are different from the Novation products:
• It is driven by a separate app and uses drag-and-drop for button assignment.
• Custom-designed icons can be assigned to each LCD display button (all of which are clear).
• Also, you can assign one of its buttons to toggle through 14 (I believe that’s the limit) different folders, each of which can contain a different button configuration or scene.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong here, but that should yield 14 different setups or scenes with a total of 196 different assigned hotkeys on a single 15-button Stream Deck, since you're required to use one button to toggle the folders (14 buttons times 14 folders = 196 different functions).
I see the Novation Launchpad being more customizable and more useful for its intended Hauptwerk purpose. But the Stream Deck may have utility for us – switching between different scenes to choose sample sets, sequencer and audio recording controls, etc., if, in fact, its architecture does allow you to toggle between all those assignable hotkeys.
Dennis