- #Presonus studio one keyboard for mac backlit pro#
- #Presonus studio one keyboard for mac backlit Pc#
It also throws light on the roughness of the keys, the slight unfinished or unpolished nature of them, but that’s being very picky indeed! Of course normal lighting is not the point! When you descend in to darkness with only the glow of your screen for company you’ll find that actually there’s a lot more glow going on that originally appeared. The body of the keys under the cap are white and so they are illuminated quite effectively but you are also treated to a view of the dust and bits of crap that can accumulate underneath. Because of the colouring of the key caps the light doesn’t shine through the tops at all under normal lighting but instead the keys stand a little proud to allow for the light beneath to bleed all around. The backlighting is provided by LEDs under the keys activated by the does-anyone-ever-use-this-key-anymore Scroll Lock key. The body is a good slim size, made of shiny black and finger smudge prone plastic but rigid enough to not give under your pounding. This is more chunky than that, certainly not like an old keyboard but also not as delicate as the keyboard I’m used to. It has more of a laptop feel while still having much of the response and spring of a desktop keyboard.
I use a Logitech UltraX Premium keyboard which, for me, is excellent. If you spend 30-50 quid and treat yourself to a decent keyboard you’ll be surprised at how much easier it is to type. Keyboards tend to get thrown in when you buy a computer and typically cost no more than a tenner – so we are used to pretty rubbish keyboards. There’s a good amount of travel and firm springiness – you really know that you’ve pressed that key. The keys feel substantial, somewhat chunky which is no bad thing in this world of super light ultrabook keyboards.
The feel of the keyboard is “different” there’s no sculpting of the keys and the key caps feel tactile, resistant to your fingers rather than the smoothness you get from a regular keyboard. So that’s what I’m reviewing today, the Editors Keys backlit Presonus Studio One shortcut keyboard!
#Presonus studio one keyboard for mac backlit Pc#
Editors Keys has undercut their rival quite convincingly and are able to offer a range of keyboards for both Mac and PC and have just released one for Presonus Studio One – but not only that, they’ve decided that it really should also light up. So I’m very familiar with the task and challenges of designing a shortcut keyboard for keyboard shortcuts… as it were.Ī company called Logic Keyboard had until recently cornered the market on media/DAW shortcut keyboards, they were mostly aimed at Apple users and had prices to match. Our intention was to lay out as many shortcuts as we could and while this was awesome it also resulted in a slightly crowded keyboard with some very small writing. I spent many hours going through every Cubase, Sonar and Logic shortcut to capture the perfect combination of keystrokes and we came up with a colour coded way of indicating which modifier keys were used.
#Presonus studio one keyboard for mac backlit pro#
At the time it seemed only video editors and Pro Tools users had access to these sorts of things. Back in the year 2000 at Carillon Audio Systems we developed shortcut stickers for all the major DAWs that could be stuck onto your keyboard, and we gave them away with every system. I’ve got some history with keyboard shortcuts. Here’s the video version, the text carries on underneath. If you’re a visual person and don’t want to waste brain space remembering things then I can highly recommend checking out the Editors Keys range of keyboards with keys festooned with easy to read shortcuts ready to go. Once discovered you’d be amazed at how it releases you from the mouse, how you straighten up, find something helpful for your left hand to do and suddenly feel in control of your DAW rather than spending all your time searching to find things. But I would suggest that in the mystery of keyboards shortcuts can be found an immensely speedy way of working, one that resists the urge to filter through menus and places common tasks right at your fingertips. To the second group of people the mouse is king and they find themselves increasingly absorbed into the single, linear mouse handed way of working – nothing wrong in that, except perhaps for the RSI and propensity for hunching.
For many people keyboard shortcuts are essential to their way of working, to others they are a mystery that seem to require too much research to make them worthwhile.
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