Palette Gear
Build your own tactile controller for your computer
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Palette Gear - Build your own tactile controller for your computer

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Have tried palette. Beautiful hardware and a great offset to any software controls in apps. Just wish I could afford it ;)
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Thanks, Matthew! Since you've played with Palette last, we've made a number of improvements. Feel free to drop by some time and we'd be happy to show you what's new!
When I first saw the image and tag line, all I thought is that this would be perfect for making custom control surfaces for Pro Tools/Reason/Logic so I'm glad to see MIDI integration from the get go
In what ways can this be used? For some reason I'm just imagining assigning a slide to adjust levels of something (transparency, vibrancy, etc.), a button to be a shortcut to "canvas size" or "image size" or whatever. What am I missing?
Maker
When I first began Palette as my fourth-year engineering project, I was aiming for a universal controller, so even though we've narrowed our focus a bit now, Palette has multiple uses. While you can use the slider to change levels of contrast/highlights/exposure/etc. when photo editing, you can also use it to scrub music in your audio editor. Buttons can undo or redo actions, including keystrokes when you're typing, or when you're playing music you can set them to play/pause or skip. We even did a bit of playing around with Palette in a video game called LIMBO, which you can watch here:
Hope that answered your question, David!
It did, thank you!
This looks awesome and a huuuge lightroom time saver!
Maker
That's what some of our Kickstarter backers have told us. Using your keyboard as opposed to Palette might not seem like it makes much of a difference, but when you're editing hundreds of photos after a shoot or event, that extra time really adds up. Thanks, Charley!
I've always been impressed by this. Added to the Made in Waterloo collection :)
Maker
Thanks for the support, Ali! If you ever visit the Foundry, feel free to stop by the Palette workspace!
I'll take you up on that! I'm long overdue a visit to the Foundry.
Great Project, Great Presentation!
Maker
Thank you, Evan! And thank you for the feature on Gadget Flow!
This looks fantastic. I was thinking the other day about how I could play my laptop like I play my drum kit: Have you ever considered making a footpedal?
I love this idea. I want to feel like I'm a DJ when I'm programming.
Was really impressed with the demo at the Product Hunt TO meetup. Looking forward to seeing where you guys take this!
Such a great idea! Love the whole tactile aspect of it. Looking forward to trying it out.
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