Umm...a little clarification here is perhaps in order. Since X-keys maps standard keyboard commands to any key on the X-keys, any USB model will work. The reason the 58 key Pro model is recommended is it's
layout is the closest match to the
Eos/
Ion/
Element main keypad
layout.
Also,
ETC does not provide the programming software for the X-keys. They provide a configuration file only. You have to have the software from PI Engineering to load this config file to the X-keys.
Now before I get flamed or anything, I do own the X-keys Pro model and it does work well with the offline client. I tried
ETC's config file, but decided to customize one myself instead. Since you don't have enough keys to
cover all the
console buttons, you have to select the ones you want, and my choices differed from
ETC. This applied to the key cap
template they provide as well; I just printed my own using the
template file from PI Engineering.
jhdesynz, are you saying that
ETC will provide a physical key cap set, or just the word document
template they have on their website?