![]() On devices which don’t have motorized faders, such as the nanoKONTROL2, you can use a button to enable “pickup mode”. This can be quite disconcerting, and is hopeless if you’re trying to tweak photos that you’ve already edited. This can be avoided by using devices such as the Behringer XTouch Mini, with its endless encoders (dials), or the Behringer BCF2000 with its motorized faders that automatically move to match the Lightroom settings for the selected photo. If you moved the Exposure fader right to the bottom on the previous photo, when you start to move it on the next photo, Lightroom’s Exposure slider jumps to -5 and the picture goes dark. This means that the fader position doesn’t match the slider position when you switch photos. This means a huge number of controls can be fitted into a small space on your desk. Press another button, and the faders change the Effects panel sliders (and LrControl very helpfully opens the applicable panel too, so you can see what you’re doing). When you press one button, the faders affect the Basic sliders. Hardly ideal! To solve this issue, midi controllers use the concept of layers – essentially switching sets of controls, like a modifier key. If you had a fader for every slider in the Develop module, you’d need a controller that took up your entire desk, and you’d need very long arms. ![]() At the time of writing, LrControl can affect about 160 different Lightroom sliders/buttons, depending on the number of buttons, dials (encoders) and sliders (faders) on your midi controller. The LrControl functions are almost entirely focused on the Develop module, apart from star ratings and flags. ![]() The new kid on the block, LrControl from Peltmade, is looking like a very promising and economical option for midi controllers on both Windows and Mac. ![]()
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