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Elgato Stream Deck+, much more control

The different Stream Deck models are enormously popular among content creators, but also among many other user profiles such as gamers, video editors, graphic designers, etc. either in your standard 15-key modelthe tiny and very practical Stream Deck Mini with six keys, or at the opposite end the opulent Stream Deck XL with its 32 keys, this device has managed to hit the mark by fulfilling a function that has become essential for many of these creators, thanks to the precise and simple control it provides them.

If you don’t know Stream Deck, you should know what it is a console with several buttons (6, 15 or 32) that, through its management software, allows you to program them for the functions you want (both simple and macros), both from the operating system itself and, and this is the most important point, from the applications that we have installed. Thus, during a live show, creators can select scenes, settings, video bumpers and other elements that they have previously configured in the software they use for their broadcasts.

And if the existing models up to now were already tremendously practical, the presentation of the new Stream Deck+ It’s not that it goes one step further in that sense, it’s that it concatenates a good handful of them, going on to provide much, much more precise control. And how do you get it? Well, offering a control console made up of eight programmable buttons, four infinity dials, and a multi-function touchscreen.

Elgato Stream Deck+, much more control

Regarding the buttons, its operation is similar to what we already know from previous versions, the great novelty is the four dials and the screen. With respect to the former, and as with the buttons, we can assign them the function we want through the software and, thanks to its infinite rotation, we will have very precise control over the level of adjustment of what we are controlling with them. . To find out what role each one of them has been assigned and at any given time, the touch screen shows us both what we are adjusting, as well as the adjustment level itself.

For this function alone, the Stream Dock+ screen would already be most practical, but it can also be used for switch, simply by dragging your finger, from one profile to another, of how many we have configured in the management software. Thus, for example, we can have a “page” with the video settings, another with the sound settings, a third with the lighting settings, a fourth dedicated to the visual effects… and so on as many as we may need. This feature was already available on previous Stream Deck models, but now that switching between them is as easy as sliding your finger across the touch screen makes it much, much more convenient.

As we have already commented on more than one occasion, the different Stream Deck models are an excellent tool for content creators, but this does not mean that this is the only user profile to which it is directed and who can take advantage of a streaming device. these characteristics. In reality, practically anyone can find a large number of uses for it in their day to day, from the applications and games they use regularly, even to control home automation elements.

The Elgato Stream Dock+ console is already on sale on its manufacturer’s website, and its price is €229.99.

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