The ShuttleXpress (MSRP $59.95) is a smaller version of the ShuttlePRO, designed for traveling editors or those for whom space is at a premium. The ShuttlePRO comes in black and silver. It has a six-foot USB cable, which I think is excellent because it can easily reach computers that are not sitting right next to the keyboard. It weighs just a few ounces, has a very nice feel and sits solidly on a desk with no slipping around. The unit is about 7.5 inches high, 4.5 inches wide and about 1.5 inches tall. The top two rows of buttons have removable caps so you can add keyboard labels (72 printed labels are included, along with another 72 blank labels) for quick reference. All buttons have presets, but every button can be custom-assigned a keyboard shortcut using the Contour application, which I’ll get to a little later in this review. ![]() ![]() The ShuttlePRO v2 (MSRP: $109.95) has 15 programmable buttons, jog wheel, and spring-loaded Shuttle ring. (Basically, it supports any software that uses keyboard shortcuts - for instance, just now, I idly twisted one of the wheels and the cursor started moving in my word processing program. And, since the Shuttle has been around since forever, it supports virtually all the software we use on a daily basis. The Shuttle is specifically designed for multimedia content creation – editing video, audio, and images. This isn’t really a keyboard replacement, rather, it is designed to minimize the number of times your hands need to jump to the keyboard. The basic idea behind the Shuttle is to make audio and video editing more efficient by combining a jog wheel and a spring-loaded shuttle ring, both of which are programmable, with buttons linked to essential keyboard shortcuts, so that your hands stays in one spot, with easy access to the keys you need the most. So, earlier this month, Matt loaned me a brand-new ShuttlePRO v2 and ShuttleXpress to review. So same controller item does the same thing but different places.It’s been a while since I wrote about the Shuttle Pro from Contour Design – So, when Matt Ouellette, Account Manager for the Shuttle, asked if I wanted to take a look at their latest version – the V2 – I said “Yes!” immediately. Then program your key commands so that a modifier (for example ctrl (mac)) makes the same wheel turn do the same thing but for the fade out. I guess just generally think of how you have your hands when you work… and what tasks you perform the most that could use some help… And look at your keyboard and lay it out logically, so on a mac use command for “in” and control for “out”, because the keys are located left/right just like in/out on screen… So same controller item does the same thing but different places. The wheel sends key command that targets increase/decrease fade in. Generally I recommend picking one type of action per key or jog/shuttle, and then add something logical in addition to that using modifier keys. So I reassigned the wheel to zoom in/out instead. When binding to ‘step by frame’ it’ll actually trigger more than one step per “click” or “detent” of the controller. ![]() One thing I noticed was that “jog” won’t really go by frame in Cubase/Nuendo.
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