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by lcrs 3806 days ago
I'm interested to know how they're interfacing with the Adobe apps. I hooked up trackballs to Levels in Photoshop using the official "Connection SDK" a couple of years ago and the latency felt terrible, as far as I could tell due to Photoshop's response time. Hopefully something has improved there in the interim... http://lewisinthelandofmachines.tumblr.com/post/60137039416/...

Seems a shame there isn't a standard for mapping hardware to generic UI controls, the way MIDI is ubiquitous in audio production. All video apps support control surfaces of some kind but Avid/Tangent/Filmlight/Davinci/Lightworks panels all use their own closed protocols and I'm not aware of any of them having been reverse-engineered :(