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ControllerMate and Automatic Fingers

This document discusses alternative keyboard options and Controller Mate software. It describes a blogger who uses an unusual keyboard that is more comfortable but lacks key commands. It also discusses the Nostromo gaming keypad, which works well with the Mac except its software does not support Mac. Controller Mate can program the Nostromo keys and provides more flexibility than its software, though its interface is complex. It allows creating groups and pages to perform different key commands depending on button combinations.

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ControllerMate and Automatic Fingers

This document discusses alternative keyboard options and Controller Mate software. It describes a blogger who uses an unusual keyboard that is more comfortable but lacks key commands. It also discusses the Nostromo gaming keypad, which works well with the Mac except its software does not support Mac. Controller Mate can program the Nostromo keys and provides more flexibility than its software, though its interface is complex. It allows creating groups and pages to perform different key commands depending on button combinations.

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Controller Mate and Automatic Fingers

Many people in the world wants a good keyboard,


because as we know keyboard is the most important things or devises when we using a
computer. .
One of the blogger says: “As I’ve blogged about, I have a strange keyboard. It looks impossible to
use, but I’m actually much faster typing on it than a traditional keyboard, with the added bonus
that my arms don’t go numb in the middle of the night. The Mac Pro isn’t thrilled with my
keyboard, which connects through a serial-to-ADB dongle. On restarts, the computer asks me to
confirm the keyboard layout, suspicious that I’ve swapped in a Klingon model. Nevertheless, it
produces the correct letters every time. While my odd keyboard is great for typing, it’s singularly
awful for key commands, like Copy, Paste and Undo. While one’s fingers can always find the
right keys to form words, there’s something different about multi-key combinations. It just
doesn’t happen consistently.”

A little gaming keypad, the Nostromo N52 by Belkin using software that
came with it, it set up keys for Copy, Paste and all the useful shortcuts one is likely to use.
But the software for the Nostromo refuses to work with the Mac Pro.
The fingers would stop reaching for the non-functioning keypad, but they wouldn’t. In copying
something, it will be left with a single lower-case g, which is how the computer decided to
interpret the chatter from the orphaned device.
One guy has taken it upon himself to create his own drivers, but it looks like even he’s given up.
Fortunately, there’s a program called Controller Mate which can handle the Nostromo. For $15,
it’s almost as good as free, and can do a lot of things that the Belkin software couldn’t.
Controller Mate has an elaborate flow-chart-style programming language which looks
great but is almost impenetrable. How do you assign a keystroke to a button? It’s as easy as…
1. Pick the controller from the list.
2. Double-click it to open the available controller buttons.
3. Press the actual button on the device to indicate which virtual button it corresponds to.
4. Drag the virtual button to the programming area.
5. But first, you might want to make a new programming page. Or a group. Why? You won’t
know until you need it.
6. Now, pull down the menu to outputs, and select “Keystroke” or “Single Key.” What’s the
difference? I couldn’t tell you, except that Single Key seems to work and Keystroke locked up
my machine in a beeping loop.
7. Open the virtual keyboard palette and drag the desired key to the well, then add any
modifier keys.
8. Then drag the whole thing to the programming area, and attach it to the virtual button.
9. Test to see if it works.
Repeat for all of the other keys.
To be fair, there’s a benefit to all this abstraction. You can create some pretty elaborate logic by
nesting groups and pages, so that hitting one key while another key is pressed performs a special
function. But it’s a lot of work to get to Copy and Paste.
Your fingers are just happy to be back on autopilot. They’ll have reached for the Nostromo
fifteen times. This is fifteen times less it had to curse under breath.

Cubase a dummy input device in conjunction with a digital / virtual


computer studio environment. All the samples, sounds, effects and tracks are generated by the
computer program rather than in the keyboard itself

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