I would love to have a lower screen section have a softkey page. Obviously would never want to give up physical buttons. But being able to have some utility buttons that I can label on that lower screen section could be handy.
Having “Virtual SoftKeys” would be great. Then they could be represented in a few possible locations:
- The SoftKeys configuration page. They could add the ability to trigger SoftKeys from this screen.
- A new configurable South Area View.
- A new configurable Soft Rotaries panel. I use a C3500 and don’t have any panels configured for the Soft Rotaries area on the right screen, since there aren’t any rotaries there to turn. This would be my top choice for where to add “Virtual SoftKeys”.
Realistically, Allen&Heath would probably be cautious to implement this as it might reduce compelling reasons to choose their larger surfaces.
That said, I’ll bet a non-zero number of customers would be interested in a first-party Streamdeck-esque device. Imagine something along the lines of the IP6, but just Soft Keys and maybe small displays for digital labels.
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Not exactly the same thing, but with Custom Control version 1.5 you can now trigger Actions on dLive. With this functionality, you could create a custom layout for a given touchscreen device get functionality similar to a Soft Key. Unfortunately, Action don’t have feature parity with the functions available in the Soft Key configurations.
Here is the relevant post: Custom Control V1.5 and AHM V1.52