Although I’m right handed, I actually use the mouse with my left hand, my keyboard in the middle and a CMC-TP module on the right, but this only comes in a right handed version.
So any thoughts, opinions or alternates to consider?
Kensington Expert Mouse Trackball all the way. no Handedness limitation since it’s symmetrical, very fine tracking control, and chording, which adds two extra controls to the four buttons and scroll ring.
Unfortunately not. Haven’t had one for few years. But when I still had a daytime job I used Wacom pen-tablets ranging from small ones up to A3-sized monsters during a period of something like 15 years. They had pin-point accuracy and ergonomy which no mouse or trackball can provide. But no, I have no experience on their new touch-aware products.
But now as this topic came up here, I realised I should go and buy myself one in few days. So … hold your breath and wait … I’ll be back.
Not at all, John. Holding down the left button with my thumb and rolling the ball with index and middle fingers.
When I lay my hand on it without aiming, my thumb rests on the left button, ring finger on the right button, index and middle fingers rest on the ball naturally.
The ball has enough weight so I can sort of throw the cursor across the screen, then grab control when it arrives at the target. It was easy to get precise with it.
It felt very natural from the first time I used one, like in 1998.
You can do everything you can with a normal mouse with a Kensington trackball, the only thing I miss is a middle mouse button but that’s solved on the one Steve’s posted, as it has 4 buttons .
I have only tested it for about 45 min today, but so far I really like it. It will take some time to get familiar with it, but I think it will be an improvement from using a mouse. The scroll ring is much better than a mouse wheel I think.
btw … logitech has this new keyboard touchpad combination “logitech tk 820”
i checked it at my local store and it felt great. good look and built quality.
has anyone experience using this with cubase?
especially the touchpad on that device.
i like that compact solution and prefer touchpad over trackball. (multi gestures)
I’ve been using a Microsoft trackball for about 10 years and I’ve not had any physical issues with my hands/arms.
When I moved to windows 8 recently on a new DAW I bought an Apple type track pad; the Logitech one but it felt a bit weird to me initially so put it in a drawer.
I might re visit it again and force myself to give it another go.
It was great for general windows 8 swiping/scrolling /zooming etc but in Cubase for editing it felt a bit unnatural, however the trackball felt like that initially.