X-keys are cool, but maybe consider a touch screen monitor?? I don't know Chamsys, but I wonder if you can set up multiple pages on a touch screen and use those instead of an x-key, which has a finite number of buttons.Who uses it?
What Model do you use?
Do you have any tips, tricks, or other tidbits that may be worth sharing?
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I know this is an oldish thread, but did you ever try an X-keys with Chamsys? I'd like to see about getting an X-keys since I've been abusing my laptops keyboard at gigs when I get excited...
If you did get an X-keys, does it compare at all to a wing? At least in the sense that both have buttons and make a more functional piece of hardware than the keyboard alone.
So, do you have a macro on each key to switch to programming,, press the button, and switch back to normal, or something else. Also, does it have all of the programming buttons mapped?It's a bit confusing. Most of the time the keyboard works fine. There are some situations when I am trying to label a cue or stack or something where the keyboard operates in programming mode and I need to enter the label on the screen. Some situations it works fine. I should track this down and see if it is a bug. I'm usually so busy programming that I just work around it. I also get better results on a PC than a Mac.
I know it is not ideal, but I could not afford more console than the PC Wing Compact, and the X-Keys add all these buttons that make it MUCH easier to use.
if you can assign multiple keypresses per key you dont need a seperate button, it will do it automatically. For example, to record, key would ->switch to programming mode->press 'R'->switch back to normal.Oh that's a great idea! I did not think about making a macro to switch keyboard modes and then assigning that to a key. It's only in one situation that the keyboard does not act as expected. I forget when. When it happens, I just type on the screen with cursor or touchscreen using the on-screen keypad. In most cases it works flawlessly. The numeric keypad is great to have. Hardware buttons for Patch and Programmer and Copy and Include and Update are great to have.
Huh, that seems like a good idea, i wonder if there might be issues with contextual menus.I know this is an older thread but for the problems in programmer mode since your using an xkeys couldn't you just clear the functions off the keyboard keys and have them do text input?
MagicQ gives users the option to use Programming shortcuts keyboard mode which gives you access to the programming commands using a PC keybaord, you can switch to and from this mode at any point.
We also allow windows to be opened using the CNTRL + X key combinations.
Hardware wise our PC Wing compact hardware gives you the physical faders/encoders along with the commonly used Rec/Clear etc commands.
The MQ60/70/80 consoles have a 'net wing' mode allowing these consoles to be networked to a PC system, allowing these consoles to control the PC Software giving you all 64 universes.
One of the main reasons for limiting some functionality allowing all buttons available on custom keybaords etc is that we give away our software for free with no restriction on its output (all 64 universes fully enabled), so we make our money via hardware sales of our products which allow us to continue developing both our software and hardware.
Any other questions do let me know.
James
ChamSys Ltd
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