10. Summary

Simplify your life as a musician. Modern hardawre controllers should achieve a simplified workflow within a computer-based studio or stage environment. This means mental and spatial concentration on a single controller for as many hardware and software instruments as possible within a studio. Of course, you must realise that using a controller requires some getting used to and that users have to learn to find their way around it once it has been acquired.

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Hoewever, once this hurdle has been taken, volumes can be more precisely set, sound selection and changes can proceed more smoothly, and the creative element is given a completely new dynamism. If you're tired of always finding yourself just on the cusp of acute tenosynovitis or repetitive strain injury while moving the computer mouse around, a hardware controller may be the solution for you. An enormous range of controller hardware is already available, and everyone should be able to find the device of their dreams.