After acquiring Steam Deck rival Loupedeck past year, Logitech is launching a $199.99 MX Creative Console that’s designed to power Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro. The power sheet includes a Stream Deck-like keypad and a dialpad that has an analog dial and plentifulness of buttons to velocity up originative tasks.
Logitech has created customized plugins for Adobe apps similar Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Illustrator for its MX Creative Console. In Premiere Pro you tin usage the dial to scrub done a timeline, and determination are 4 buttons astir the dial to activate functions similar undo.
There’s besides a roller for navigation, allowing you to easy set the level of zoom connected a Premiere Pro timeline for much precise edits. In Photoshop you tin twist the main dial to set brushwood sizes, oregon zoom successful and retired utilizing the roller.
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The main keypad works overmuch similar a Stream Deck, with 9 customizable LCD keys that tin beryllium utilized to motorboat apps oregon power antithetic features wrong apps similar Photoshop oregon Premiere Pro. There are besides 2 leafage buttons astatine the bottommost truthful you tin make 15 pages of keys for each app.
All of the controls are afloat customizable done Logitech’s app, with presets you tin resistance and driblet onto the buttons for each app. It helps automate repetitive tasks into a azygous fastener property that usually necessitate a fewer clicks oregon memorizing galore keyboard shortcuts.
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While this benignant of hardware operation volition surely velocity up originative tasks successful apps, if you already person the musculus representation of knowing a assortment of keyboard shortcuts past the Creative Console mightiness beryllium somewhat little useful. The dialpad unsocial could marque this $199.99 instrumentality worthy it for immoderate though, acknowledgment to the dial and roller precision tools that are dissimilar controlling apps utilizing a rodent oregon keyboard.
Logitech is launching the MX Creative Console successful airy grey and graphite models, and it’s adjacent bundling 3 months of Adobe’s Creative Cloud membership. The main keypad connects to a PC oregon Mac done USB-C, and the dialpad connects via Bluetooth oregon Logitech’s Bolt dongle (sold separately).
The MX Creative Console enters a crowded market, going up against editing consoles similar the TourBox Elite, Loupedeck Creative Tool, DaVinci Resolve editing keyboards, and adjacent Elgato’s Stream Deck. Logitech volition commencement shipping the MX Creative Console for $199.99 connected October 14th, with preorders opening today.