Comments on: Why All DAW Users Should Use a Kensington Expert Mouse

By: Mike Kravets

Mike Kravets — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:10:22 +0000

Use Kensingtone slimblade trackball, Win 7×64, Presonus Studio One 2 – any problems with driver, all is working great & much more comfortable than mouse.

By: Rudy Cordova

Rudy Cordova — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:00:48 +0000

where did the swap scrolling function go?!?!

By: Mike Kravets

Mike Kravets — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 00:12:53 +0000

Yeah, it’s strange Kensington strategy about drivers… Maybe you tell me some alternatives? I would appreciate any information on choosing a trackball for use with DAW

By: Glenn R

Glenn R — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:22:40 +0000

Sorry Mike, I can’t answer your question since I have not tried the Slimblade. But after Kensington completely abandoned Mouseworks, I would not recommend anyone to buy anything they make. You just cannot be sure they will keep up with the OS updates.

@Lukas and Vinny – re: SwapScroll:
When Kensington’s own support can’t answer that question you can be sure they are not an outfit worth your business.

By: Glenn R

Glenn R — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 23:10:20 +0000

By: Mike Kravets

Mike Kravets — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:39:50 +0000

Which trackball is better – Kensington Expert Mouse, or Slimblade ?
I plane to buy one of them, but in Ukraine there is no this brand on market, so I can’nt try before buy.Interesting some problems with scrolling, because Slimblade has no horizontal scrolling mode, is it true ?
For me is not a problem to push shift button to switch between scrolling modes, but I wanna hear someones opinion, who have tested both of that devices. THANKS !)

By: Vinny

Vinny — Sat, 12 Oct 2013 13:54:38 +0000

I second Lukas’ question.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:19:31 +0000

How did you get it to swap scrolling?

I can’t make it work, I even called support and they didn’t know!

Please if you can help me

Regards Lukas

By: Glenn R

Glenn R — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:19:17 +0000

I could not agree more with your recommendation for using the Kensington 4 button trackball with DAWs. In my case it was Logic Pro. Alas, since upgrading to Lion and replacing my system hard drive it no longer functions. Aa noted above, there’s no workaround for this.

I’d be interested to know if you have found anything that might replace this wonderful tool. I’m still amazed that Kensington don’t offer their programmable Mouseworks software for their newer devices; I’d be happy to buy the new model but for the fact that they have ceased to include these incredibly useful user-programmable buttons.

Thinking now of trying a DAW transport device such as Presonus Faderport or the (discontinued) Alphatrack by Frontier Designs.

Cheers,
GRR

By: RobK

RobK — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:03:10 +0000

Love Kensington but the latest Expert Mouse does NOT work for me with PT9.1, completely unreliable. I’ve been using Kensington trackballs for many many years prior to this.

By: Nhmorgan01

Nhmorgan01 — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:26:15 +0000

Those with newer Macs beware, though. Kensington doesn’t offer, nor does it have plans to offer, a compatible version of Mouseworks. They instead only offer the far more inferior Trackballworks which lacks much of the functionality and customization described in the article. Shame on Kensington for dropping Mac support….

By: Joe Chase

Joe Chase — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 13:14:35 +0000

I’ve used a track ball for years even before I started with PT. Sadly, my last track ball (Logitec marble) isn’t nearly as posh with programmable buttons as my old Kensington. I will replace soon.

By: ConnorSmith

ConnorSmith — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:05:37 +0000

^^Seems very cool, although I’m hooked on trackballs myself. I found that long editing sessions on traditional mice were really killing my wrist.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:01:08 +0000

That one seems to be popular with PT Gurus. I’m not a fan of trackballs though. the one on the ICON is horrid.

I use the Logitech MX Revolution
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/130&cl=ca,en
Not cheap but I like it a lot.

7 customizable buttons, I use some for zooming, play, shift, ctrl+0 (snap to nearest grid line)
Holding shift (custom thumb button) and scroll wheel moves horizontally.
I can do most of my beat detective work single handed.
The scroll wheel is cool, it has a stepped mode, and if you spin it fast it switches to a free spinning mode.