Your favorite wireless mouse for editing in DP

[stubbsonic]

This isn't relevant to the OP, but I use an old Intellimouse with the Steermouse driver. With this combo, I can use the wheel to scroll, shift-wheel for horizontal scroll, and pressed wheel to zoom in and out. I use the left and right side buttons to page-left & page right.

I don't doubt that I could eventually get the hang of and appreciate the features offered by the magic trackpad 2. But I'd have to work out a transition plan-- and I would go kicking and screaming, I suppose.

[Killahurts]

I don't doubt that I could eventually get the hang of and appreciate the features offered by the magic trackpad 2. But I'd have to work out a transition plan-- and I would go kicking and screaming, I suppose.

I have an incentive in place already- I have a Magic Trackpad 2, and I have the Magic Mouse 2 at the same time. I choose which one I want to use for whatever task. The Trackpad is very elegant and effective. The mouse is a painful, weird POS that has a mind of its own. I didn't know the trackpad had editing potential until MLC offered that tip. Could be that in lieu of getting a better mouse, I should learn all that the MT2 can do, especially for editing in DP, and other tedious work..

[MIDI Life Crisis]

UPDATE: Nix the LEAP MOTION thing. Impossibly hard to actual navigate. The cursor just sort of floats around but doesn't really function the way it is supposed to, IMO. I'll keep it overnight but tomorrow it goes back to Fry's.

This isn't relevant to the OP, but I use an old Intellimouse with the Steermouse driver. With this combo, I can use the wheel to scroll, shift-wheel for horizontal scroll, and pressed wheel to zoom in and out. I use the left and right side buttons to page-left & page right.

I don't doubt that I could eventually get the hang of and appreciate the features offered by the magic trackpad 2. But I'd have to work out a transition plan-- and I would go kicking and screaming, I suppose.

As did I. After many months now the thought of a movable item in that corner of my desk or having to grab the potato (so to speak) is abhorrent to me. True, it was a major transition. What helped me thru was Shooshie's comment that it has "changed my relationship to my computer." I used computers before they had mice, at least mice that were both well made, programmable, and who did love to have their balls cleaned. By the way those tiny grey balls are much harder than I expected, butt eye [sic - very sic] digress.

Gestures are the wave of the future, IMO, and mice don't do that. I'm going to try out a Leap Motion later today. I'm particularly interested in using it in Finale, but with Better Touch Tool I can see it being very useful, given the time to program it properly. That, in combination with trackpad and Keyboard Maestro will hopefully give me true ergonomic control of the screen, without having to wait for a touch screen. In fact, better than a touch screen (again, hopefully).

This guy takes a while to get thru his review, but it's the best one I've seen to show that it will work like a mouse. Actually, like an air mouse, but with even more programmable gestures than I could ever hope for in a mouse and I don't have to clean balls. Well, I do, butt that's another story...

Interesting time we live in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57HZrqb4OTc

[SMS]

For any of you using a mouse, can you, with just the mouse (using buttons, etc. on it) do command-click, shift-click, control-click, option-shift click, etc? I have an MX revolution, and I just can't get that to work reliably- I'd like to not have to do the modifier keys on the keyboard.

Thanks in advance for specific replies.

Spence

[Killahurts]

Gestures are the wave of the future, IMO, and mice don't do that. I'm going to try out a Leap Motion later today. I'm particularly interested in using it in Finale, but with Better Touch Tool I can see it being very useful, given the time to program it properly.

I wonder though, for doing fine work? Seems like it might be kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiyIugH3xY

(poor Scotty)

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Gestures are the wave of the future, IMO, and mice don't do that. I'm going to try out a Leap Motion later today. I'm particularly interested in using it in Finale, but with Better Touch Tool I can see it being very useful, given the time to program it properly.

I wonder though, for doing fine work? Seems like it might be kind of like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWiyIugH3xY

(poor Scotty)

PERFECT! Yeah, that's why I'm happy to have a 30 day return policy... BTW, that guy (the one at the controls) was great in The Sting. So distinctive a voice and bone structure in his face, there's no doubt as to who he is, even though you can't see his face in the clip.

Thanks for that. Too freakin' funny!

[dix]

For fine edits, put two fingers on the trackpad, hold one finger stationary and move the other.

This absolutely changes everything. I did not know this, and now I'm wondering what else I don't know about the Magic Trackpad 2.

I've got some work to do..

Is there a way to incrementally adjust active data fields in DP with the MT2 or he Kensington Expert Trackball? DP has loads of these fields throughout the app.

The one thing that keeps me using an old, basic Logitech scroll wheel mouse is that it's the only one I have that will let me scroll + and - in single digit increments. My other mouse adds + and - in increments of 10 when I scroll over an active data field (there's no pref for this in the CP). The Magic Mouse adds/subtracts random amounts (useless). ...but I love the gestures and inertia of the MM. If only someone could bring this all together, it'd be a great controller!

[MIDI Life Crisis]

Nix the LEAP MOTION thing. Impossibly hard to actual navigate. The cursor just sort of floats around but doesn't really function the way it is supposed to, IMO. I'll keep it overnight but tomorrow it goes back to Fry's.

[stubbsonic]

I have a Leap Motion, and liked the concept of it, but it also took quite a bit of CPU-- fans started blazing every time I used it. And yea, not ready for this kind of work.

I expect at some point this type of control will be where things go, but we're not there yet.

[terrybritton]

I already accomplish the moral equivalent of throwing notes at a staff anyway, so I'm not too depressed that Leap Motion is not ready for us yet.

Someday -- likely sooner than we imagine, though -- I will merely think the notes into place and will be able to do away with awkward human-interfaces like mice and musical instruments.

Terry

[mikehalloran]

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Someday -- likely sooner than we imagine, though -- I will merely think the notes into place and will be able to do away with awkward human-interfaces like mice and musical instruments.

Terry

Speaking for the handicapped, sign me up when that happens!

[stubbsonic]

If my mind was required to control something in realtime, I'm not sure what would control my mind. I'd think "D Eb F# G A C"-- then the blender would switch on, the garage door would open and the heat would go up to 83.

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I already accomplish the moral equivalent of throwing notes at a staff anyway, so I'm not too depressed that Leap Motion is not ready for us yet.

Someday -- likely sooner than we imagine, though -- I will merely think the notes into place and will be able to do away with awkward human-interfaces like mice and musical instruments.

Terry

It's called a pencil. Lol

[frankf]

I have a couple of reams of King Brand somewhere to go with your pencil! Oh, and I asked the MMA 20 years ago about that MIDI port on the back of the head. Anyone hear back from them?

[MIDI Life Crisis]

I have a couple of reams of King Brand somewhere to go with your pencil! Oh, and I asked the MMA 20 years ago about that MIDI port on the back of the head. Anyone hear back from them?

I have a hole in my head, but lack the proper connections.