Miss your mark with a button press and instead of changing scene you’ve fired off an air horn sound effect. There’s no margin for error, no chance to feel your way to your goal before triggering an action. While using a grid of touch screens (that actually form one giant touch screen for swipe gestures, which is nifty) feels like a more modern solution, the result is actually trickier to use. The difference here though is that the Loupedeck Live’s primary buttons aren’t actually buttons.
On paper they achieve the same thing, putting a plethora of shortcuts and actions at your fingertips ready to be fired off at a moment’s notice.
I’ve made the most of an Elgato Stream Deck almost daily for live streaming over the last five years and yet found the transition to the Loupedeck a tricky one to make. When it comes to actually using the Loupedeck Live it’s a slightly peculiar experience. (Image credit: Future/Alex Berry) Performance The same could be said of the included USB cable, it’s a nice braided cable but it’s just too short and this seriously limited the choices I had of where to sit it on my desk. It’s more an annoyance than a dealbreaker and I’m sure a lot of users will go without the stand entirely but it’s a really inelegant solution to a pretty basic problem and feels like an afterthought. This means there’s just one angle setting possible and unlike the four large rubber feet on the unit itself, there’s only a tiny amount of rubber strip on each corner which leaves it prone to sliding about your desktop. The stand is a rather flimsy feeling plastic bar that awkwardly clips into holes on the back. While the front is high-end metal, the back is plastic with a hollow feel which is at odds with the $269/£229 price point. Looking behind the walls of the magic castle though and it’s a slightly disappointing story. Whether or not this is a side effect of the Stream Deck’s screens being covered by a slab of clear resin though it’s hard to tell. They’re almost exactly the same size as the buttons on an Elgato Stream Deck but do seem slightly higher resolution. The touchscreens are sharp and colourful with a punchy backlight.
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