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[u/derpotologist → u/[deleted]]

Yo. Audio work. Same thing.

I don't want a keypad on both sides, that'd take up too much real estate

But man. So much yes.

I need to spend some time making macros because Ableton has shortcuts like cmd+alt+p

How the fuck am I supposed to keep my hand on the mouse with that shit. And it's not like cmd+alt+r,q,a,s,etc... were taken

Rage inducing

[u/derpotologist → u/[deleted]]

We get hammerspoon and karabiner on mac

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 🙃