Sliders pretty useless outside the main apps

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Sam Lennox

• June 14, 2018 06:13

can you please just implement the functionality of adding your own keys to the sliders in programs that are not yet supported eg. Zbrush?

No point in having the four sliders if you can only change the brightness and the volume of the computer. even for spotify that's all you can do nothing like change the bass or even a rewind function. not asking for a rewind button at the top of the list just something to attach to them. adding a key fun to the sliders then you can bind a key to change the brush size or focal shift RGB intensity. that way you don't need to have an add on for every program just the keyboard function like the dials. kinda like the wacom settings for the expresskey. only new to the product today but little disappointed that's not an option :) 

cool product exited to see what it can become in the future.

Lots of love Sam :)

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  Shipping & Sales

  • June 14, 2018 14:32
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  Hey Sam, I absolutely understand your frustration. Let me give you a bit of background on why we don't support shortcuts for sliders currently, and where we're headed:

  Shortcut support is difficult to implement for Palette Sliders, since they have a fixed position—shortcuts can only reflect movement up or down, but not where the slider is physically located. This is why our sliders support more advanced protocols like Adobe plugins, MIDI, etc., because those protocols report both position and movement. I hope my explanation makes sense.
  
  However, adding shortcut support to sliders is difficult—not impossible. We expect that shortcut assignment for sliders will be added to PaletteApp v3.

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  ben wolcott

  • May 20, 2020 23:34
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  2 years on,  I feel kinda ripped off on the usability of the slider with non-integrated apps limited only to Mac mode (brightness and volume).  Unless I'm missing something.  I think by focusing only on Adobe you are missing a bigger 3-D user base. 

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  thomas.fuelle

  • May 23, 2020 15:17
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  Bitte!  Bitte!    mehr Einstellmöglichkeiten für die Schieberegler liefern.

  ich habe mir 4 Schieberegler gekauft damit ich optisch die Einstellung erkennen kann - doch leider funktioniert nur die Helligkeit und Lautstärke am Mac

  Ich arbeite mit FCPX und Premiere CC

  Grüße aus Dortmund

  Thomas Fülle

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  Robert Sheldon

  • April 24, 2022 19:11

  Sliders supporting keyboard shortcut functionality seems like a really great way to get value out of them. I would love to be able to zoom Chrome pages or skip around in media players, and keyboard shortcuts would allow that while more first-party support for this functionality are worked on.

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  Oli

  • May 21, 2022 13:54

  I have to do this by setting them to MIDI mode and then using another app so that they're trigger shortcuts on the up or down max states. But it's a real hassle.

  Why not at least make this feature available in Advanced/Developer mode?

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