Desk 1.0.0
The first public release of Desk — a MIDI-to-shortcut mapper that brings your control surface onto the desktop.
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Draw the desk that matches your hardware: drag eight control families — Soft Keys, Faders, Pots, Jog Dials, Rotary Encoders, Pads, Keys, and the Pager — from the Desk Palette onto the surface
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Learn controls straight from the hardware: press the button, move the fader, turn the knob, and Desk captures the MIDI message and maps it — deduped, so the same control is never mapped twice
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Each control fires the keyboard shortcut you assign, at the app you choose — anything a shortcut can do, your surface can do
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Works from wherever you are — Desk doesn't need to be in the foreground, and nothing steals focus from the app you're working in
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Pads and Keys arrays: a pad grid that reflows as you resize it, and a piano keyboard that scales as one — and may hang right over the edge of the desk
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Pages: one desk, many pages, each with its own controls and mappings — flip them from the Pager on the surface or the Page menu
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Edit Mode to design, Control Mode to perform — pin a performing desk over your other apps, and gate the mappings with one button while you arrange
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Begin from a template — Basic, MPC, or LaunchKey — or from a blank surface of any size
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Maps are plain
.deskdocuments — New, Open, Save, and share setups between machines; learned mappings travel with the file -
A Message Log window shows every MIDI message Desk receives
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Built-in help book, and automatic updates via Sparkle
Thanks for being an early adopter.