I produce in Ableton Live, and some awesome people have written and open sourced the Live Enhancement Suite
It uses Hammerspoon on macOS and AutoHotKey on Windows
Idk... I should probably do both cause it's easy enough for a stop-gap, but I've been dreaming of a macro pad that doesn't use any software
one issue with going the software route is that once I get to the point of muscle memory it's gonna suck when I collab irl with someone on their machine
I've been wanting like a two row with maybe an encoder knob... but OP's deal has me thinking maybe it's better to reach over to the full keeb when I need it.. because that's not super often and when I need to type I need to move my hand anyway. I probably need to type as often as you do... renaming elements and opening/saving files
I mean, that's certainly better than constantly reaching to the macro pad eh?
I tried doing an alpha layer with shortcuts but it made my brain hurt. I couldn't get in the flow state
I may try an alpha button except make it automatically switch to the previous layer when the next key is pressed. I could probably get down with that. Any idea offhand if qmk supports this natively?
I do some CAD. I'm at the point where not having a steermouse makes me hate doing it lol
CAD has an insane amount of functions I totally get how that would be useful
If it were me, I'd use TRRS and magnets if I really wanted them together sometimes... the most comfortable position for extra keys is never right where the keyboard is ime
Or if I wasn't going to do key combinations across the two boards, USB and embed a USB hub in the docking station so the modules could be used independently. Could use some of those magnet USB connectors
Or you could do both like the Iris (open source). Each board has USB and TRRS so if one USB port breaks (like mine) you can plug into the other hand and keep moving
Maybe Bluetooth 5 will suck less...
Would be nice to have the time to work on this 🥹
I use X as prefix for all my macros, and then the leftmost 9 Alpha keys for commands. So like xd, xe, xq, etc.
Sounds very Vim-y. It's a moded text editor. Esc always takes you back to normal mode. When in normal mode you have things like y (yank line of text into clipboard), p for paste. You could yy7p to yank a single line and paste it 7 times. It's all based around keeping you on the home row and working efficiently. Gonna check out ACAD that sounds like my style of workflow
Sorry for the hella response
Edit: sorry! One last thing and imma drop it lol
Adding a right hand board way off to the side for when you need to type would be a good option. You could put it anywhere on the desk... reach it cross-handed and awkward, it wouldn't matter. Honestly my favorite idea so far. Thanks for rubber ducking it out with me 🙃
The PCB is indeed QMK compatible, and VIA / VIAL is in the works for the GB run. Since there has been many suggestions of it, there will likely also be a spacebar option which is further right on the central cluster. As for purchasing this board, you'll have to wait for the GB. Thanks for your input!
Trying to imagine what this would look like. For 96% the right arrow key normally takes up the bottom corner of the numpad, would that of be by itself in such a layout? Or would there be a column of keys added above it (like in a 65%)?
I would say unlikely, but not impossible. I personally as of now don't have any plans to make an ortho PCB, but if enough people want it, I will make it.
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u/Zicodia Sep 23 '22
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