I am using a Razor Orochi, but I don’t use the 4 extra buttons on the side. I guess I could configure them, but haven’t bothered.
The thumbwheel on the MX Master looks pretty cool though. If I could scroll horizontally in Cubase without having to hold shift, it would be very useful.
Using the Apple Magic Mouse for years, the multitouch surface allows me to scroll horizontally which I can’t live without with. Not the most comfy mouse but it does its job.
I use one of these 20 button Logitech G600. The 12 thumb buttons I have configured to be different in all 3 banks, giving me 36 shortcuts to various macros and key commands. The tuff thing about that is to remember them all. I have color coded the 3 banks, red, green, blue (the buttons glow in that color) but still.
I sometimes have to look, but the most used are for copy, paste, undo and that sort of often used commands, I do without. It’s nice not having to move the hand away from the mouse to often. But I have to say it took me a while getting used to it, and figuring out how best to utilize the keys.
Know what you mean about remembering what’s what - both for mouse buttons and Key Commands. I solved it by making a table in Excel (or whatever). Then I made a graphic image of the table with the PC snipping tool and set that as my windows background image. Now I just scoot the mouse to the lower right corner and find what I’m looking for.
With key commands, I almost never take my hand off the mouse. I can do just about any key command with just my left hand and the right hand stays on the mouse. And, with mouse modifiers (shift, ctrl, alt) you obviously still need to have a hand in the mouse. A mouse button, just means you may not need to use your left hand too.
Problem I have is the 4 extra buttons on the side of my mouse (2 each side) are a bit fiddly to use as the mouse is quite small. I like the size of the mouse as I just grip it with the tips of my thumb and fingersand move my fingers, but my wrist stays pretty still. I don’t “palm” the mouse.
I looked at the dimensions of the MX Master and it looks petty huge. I think you would need to “palm” that mouse, which would make using the thumb wheel easy, but maybe not suit my mouse style.
On my general purpose computer I use a completely different shaped pointing device (it looks like a joystick but doesn’t tilt) than on my DAW just to mix up how my hand gets used.
you should try a wide grip, like func. it lets you grip between all fingers instead of just thumb and fore fingers. weighty mouse let you fingers grip as the weight seems to counteract gripping…