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so today we're checking out the loop deck CT I'm quite excited for this one

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basically what this is is a control

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surface which is supposedly better than

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using a keyboard and mouse here we go oh

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nice is integrated with well let's find

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out I don't actually know Lightroom Photoshop Premiere Final Cut Illustrator

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stream Labs Ableton Live able Ableton Live after-effects audition and I guess

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Windows those are nice knobs let's appeal this

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and this really reminds me of just straight up a small stream deck but they

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have looks like little sliders on the side that you can probably yeah that's

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almost certainly touch sensitive over there so very cool apparently these you

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can use to change profiles these ones here not bad this this knob

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is also a touchscreen which i think is super cool so looking forward to that in

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the box we've got also a little manual

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quick guide which is really boring

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looking frankly what is here cable USB

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see thank you thank you for that

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and I think we've hit rock bottom it's

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like a holographic Pokemon card up in here enhance how you create and edit Oh

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everything's going to be amazing we'll see all right welcome to my desk

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I've been using the loop deck for a few weeks now and I missed a couple of things about

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the hardware first of all these are not sliders I think they're literally just

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labels for whatever the dials are and also these dials have buttons also this

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one is pretty difficult to keep your finger on because you don't want to slip

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off onto the touchscreen and you don't want to slip off to this side it can be

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hard to use it's okay the little stops on here I think that's called like a

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ratcheted dial listen to that and then this one is not ratcheted

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that's just a smooth dial keep in mind I've only been using this thing for a

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premiere and Photoshop it does support other applications I don't know how good

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or bad it is in those I can only give you my experience and my experience is I

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don't like this thing I don't like it

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the software feels very unfinished I actually had to check to see if this was

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a Kickstarter project and I was on the beta software

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I'm not when I'm in Photoshop for example and I hit ctrl shift I it just

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automatically brings me to the loop deck and opens up this this inspect element

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thing because this is like chromium based or whatever it's like a debugging thing and it's also just like very slow

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to use and sometimes the actions will like appear and disappear seemingly at

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random because it's just it's so slow to update if you search for a command

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let's do audio keyframes see it's come

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on searching really slow and then once you drag the command on it clears your

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search I feel like every command that's in here at least for a premier needs to

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have a written explanation of what it does because like you're just looking

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through here and I'm trying to figure out like what is CMD window defense

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there's all sorts of stuff in here where I know that these are just the names

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from the default API and they didn't change them they don't seem to know what

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they're for or what they do you drag them on and try to use them and they

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don't seem to do anything open dot item click I don't know nothing happens like

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like yeah it's a lot of work to have a written explanation of what each thing

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does but that would ensure that it's something that even needs to be in there

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and also otherwise you're offloading all

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of that work figuring stuff out on to the user it's mmm come on guys you're better than

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this maybe you can only have one profile

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per application you can't make any more

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and it must it must be tied to an application which is bad because now I

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can't make backups I can't swap in and out two different

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things a lot of the software is just it's hard to figure out even with the

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manual and by the way they don't tell you that there is actually a manual

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just for the loop tech software but also for like premier there's one for

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Photoshop like this is great but it's not in the QuickStart guide

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despite how confusing the software is to use it's also not nearly customizable

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enough you can't change the sensitivity of dials you can't change the direction

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of dials you know which way is going to increase the number versus decrease you

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cannot change an acceleration curve a small or the big dials you can't do it

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you can't change what icon or text appears next to the dials you can change

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what happens when you click the dials if you know that you have to click over

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here on the press which took me a while to figure out also you cannot change the

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icon or color or image or text on any of

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the touchscreen buttons or the touchscreen itself and the worst part is

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that for a lot of the functions that

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they have they don't have an icon or sometimes that names are all the same

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this is one of the biggest strikes against the loop dx/dt like i assumed

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that you'd be able to do it like you can for the stream deck with the stream deck

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you can put whatever text and whatever icon you want and here's another big

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strike against them you cannot open or activates any given application that you

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want you are stuck with the ones that they've pre-selected for you from the

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stream deck you can totally do it just open an app file and you can choose

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whatever you want anywhere on your system including autohotkey scripts but

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it's like the main thing that i use to stream that for more stuff you can't do

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there are these 1 2 3 4 5 buttons that

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you cannot customize you cannot change them all so you can't change the RGB of

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any of the buttons at all the physical buttons know they're stuck with the

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default colors honestly for most of the stuff that this thing can do it's

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usually better to just use the keyboard honestly because your hand is already on

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the keyboard you already have all the muscle memory and like the physical

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feedback of pressing a key releasing a key and you know that an action has been

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sent that's better than the haptic feedback on the loop decks et cuz get

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this when you we need at all you just touch it listen it makes

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a vibration but that doesn't mean that it's done anything it's done nothing

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it always vibrates when you touch it even though the action only happens when

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you release so the vibration is doubly useless is telling you something that's

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happened when nothing's happened and then it tells me that something's happened when it has happened but I

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can't feel it it's even worse on this thing here I

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don't know what it's trying to tell me listen what is it doing at least when I

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double tap it I get back to normal but like when I move my finger here and then

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back I'm not back where I started

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so the shuttle command is garbage

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it's kind of ok when you're going slow if you go fast it whoa it teleports

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around seemingly at random I think what

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they did is they tried to get it to like skip over gaps the best one I've ever

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used is on the Logitech craft keyboard

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to the point where I just want to cut it off of that keyboard and just put it

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down here and use only the dial I feel like what they really should have done

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is just talk to the users people who

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actually use premiere go on user voice and find stuff that you can fix with the

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looped xct and here's a perfect example keyboard shortcuts for effects and

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presets they don't have it I have it because I did it without a hotkey nobody

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else has it and this would be perfect perfect for the loop deck you just press

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one key and all of a sudden you have access to whichever one of your presets

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you want look at all these there is one command I found that works better on the

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loop Dex ET than it does on the keyboard select a clip

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if you click on a different row then

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it'll select on that row oh that's so cool look at that and then the other

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really good things to have on dials and sliders are color correction controls

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for which it's okay on the loop deck but honestly if you really want a color

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correction in premiere on a control surface use the ripple tangent it is

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magnificent I love this thing I use it every day increase and decrease the

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exposure I can change the saturation make it really high make it really low

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change the color temperature this is the kind of thing they should have tried to

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emulate with the loop deck and it just doesn't work nearly as well as a real

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physical ball the Photoshop integration is a little better they put more thought

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into it I think except that I can't always get it to work I'm in Photoshop

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I'm gonna click on the brush tool nothing's happened oh gosh

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type tool nope that's nothing nothing's happened I think I have to close out of

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Photoshop and reopen it there we go we got the brush tool okay and I can change

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my foreground and my background color except did you literally only have these

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ones to choose from what if you want brown or grey too bad there are not

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swatches for that and even if there were there would be no icons for them and

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then you can't make your own icons so whatever you don't even have i conce for

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white and black okay brush size opacity and hardness okay great brush to make

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the size smaller brush okay okay and I can also change the hardness this way

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come on here's the problem you can do

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that way faster with keyboard shortcuts if you don't know about this one it's

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great so brush tool just hit alt right

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click and then you have access to both hardness and diameter and then of course

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because I'm the macro King I bound this all to a single button so and then they

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also have for example zoom guys the zoom

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guess what look at how slow and laggy it is compare

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that to the built-in photoshop feature where you press control space left flick

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which is instantaneous work so much better I put it on single button because

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you know I can this thing is not worth the 500 something

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dollars that they're asking for they tried to do too many things they tried

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to support too many different pieces of software whereas a a focused approach

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like the stream deck where it's like we're gonna make this just for streaming

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to start with get it really good for that and then expand out from there or

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with the ripple tangent where they're like this is just for color correction

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that's so much of a better approach you know it's all beauty and and very little

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brains like this thing looks great it looks very impressive and the hardware

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is fine like if they had the integration working really well I could see myself

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using this but at the moment the only thing the only thing that I might use it

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for is Photoshop actions guys this is

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this is great mmm let me show you these are all my own

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custom actions that I have built and the

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problem with Photoshop is that you can only ever assign 44 actions to different

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shortcuts whereas because the loop Dex et has API access to photoshop they are

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directly integrated there's no need to go through a shortcut I can have

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unlimited actions on here check it out 50% smaller and here's neighbor

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oh is it not working oh there we go if there's just a delay cuz of course

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there's a delay it's a whole group of fish called delay fish like I can do it

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with that twelve or whatever but I only have so many keys and if they had only

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done that for premiere for prim your presets then that's another great reason

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to use this thing all right Oh some things that I do like about it it does have access to F 24

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through F 13 let me see here

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so I was experimenting with that here you can create macros of sorts they're

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called custom actions anything that's in here yet you can add to a custom action

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that's great that's perfect thank you and I like the consistent use of colors

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for workspaces versus pages versus of whatever and it does look cool and those

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are the only things that I like about it just from what I've seen so far look I'm

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just I'm so not impressed I want to encourage products like this I wanted

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this to be great I wanted to like this but I don't because we need more stuff

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like this we need more stuff like the ripple tangent Oh get one of these if

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you want to do color correction in Premiere get a stream deck this doesn't have

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integration with premier but watch my review they added all the features that

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I requested in my review but don't get a loop deck CT maybe maybe when they fix

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the software but oh I just I've been waiting I've been waiting for the power

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guys to fix their software and make it a lot better

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I've been waiting for years I don't use these things because it has a lot of

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similar problems to the loop deck CT they tried to bite off more than they

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can chew however they do have a brand new system

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coming out soon which maybe I will get

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to review on ShortCircuit we will see so make sure you subscribe