Elgato has super-sized the Stream Deck for broadcasters

Elgato’s caller Stream Deck Studio — the largest mentation of its Stream Deck controller yet — is designed for broadcast environments wherever workflows impact juggling much hardware, software, and media feeds than streamers and solo contented creators typically person to woody with.

Available starting contiguous for $899.99, the Stream Deck Studio is simply a collaboration betwixt Elgato and Bitfocus whose Companion software already brought much precocious functionality to the archetypal Stream Deck, letting you link aggregate controllers and configure them remotely done a web browser interface.

With 15 customizable LCD keys, the archetypal Stream Deck is designed to beryllium connected a table arsenic a keyboard companion. The larger Stream Deck Studio features 32 LCD keys arranged successful 2 rows, positive a brace of rotary dials, and astatine 19 inches agelong it’s designed to beryllium mounted successful a cosmopolitan workplace rack alongside different broadcast gear.

Connectivity is streamlined with a azygous USB-C larboard connected the beforehand delivering 5V to bus-powered devices, positive 2 further USB-C ports connected the back. One of those USB-C ports provides a information transportation to the PC, portion the different tin beryllium utilized to powerfulness the portion arsenic an alternate to the Stream Deck Studio’s 25W ethernet PoE (power implicit ethernet) connector.

The Stream Deck Studio runs connected Bitfocus’ Companion software, but it tin besides beryllium utilized with the developer’s new Buttons software that offers “advanced functionalities” built specifically for Elgato’s larger controller. These see “instant ocular feedback connected the device’s LCD keys,” and leveraging the Stream Deck Studio’s built-in RFID and NFC scholar to authenticate users and negociate what functionality they’re permitted to use.

Bitfocus’ Companion bundle is free, but Buttons is simply a paid upgrade with tiers that scope successful terms from $9/month for an Individual license, to $99/month for a Pro option. The institution offers a higher Enterprise tier arsenic good arsenic a one-time acquisition option, but asks that customers interaction it for pricing details.

For much elaborate setups and productions, aggregate Stream Deck Studio controllers tin beryllium stacked successful a rack and linked unneurotic utilizing the caller Buttons software, allowing them to beryllium easy configured and utilized arsenic a azygous controller unit. For setups that person tally retired of rack abstraction and request much buttons, further Stream Deck units that tin beryllium powered implicit USB, specified arsenic the Stream Deck XL, tin beryllium connected to the Studio done its beforehand USB-C port.