After acquiring Steam Deck rival Loupedeck last year, Logitech is launching a $199.99 MX Creative Console that’s designed to control Adobe Photoshop and Premiere Pro. The control panel includes a Stream Deck-like keypad and a dialpad that has an analog dial and plenty of buttons to speed up creative tasks.
Logitech has created custom plugins for Adobe apps like Photoshop, Lightroom Classic, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Audition, and Illustrator for its MX Creative Console. In Premiere Pro you can use the dial to scrub through a timeline, and there are four buttons around the dial to activate functions like undo.
There’s also a roller for navigation, allowing you to easily adjust the level of zoom on a Premiere Pro timeline for more precise edits. In Photoshop you can twist the main dial to adjust brush sizes, or zoom in and out using the roller.
The main keypad works much like a Stream Deck, with nine customizable LCD keys that can be used to launch apps or control different features inside apps like Photoshop or Premiere Pro. There are also two page buttons at the bottom so you can create 15 pages of keys for each app.
All of the controls are fully customizable through Logitech’s app, with presets you can drag and drop onto the buttons for each app. It helps automate repetitive tasks into a single button press that usually require a few clicks or memorizing numerous keyboard shortcuts.
While this type of hardware combination will certainly speed up creative tasks in apps, if you already have the muscle memory of knowing a variety of keyboard shortcuts then the Creative Console might be slightly less useful. The dialpad alone could make this $199.99 device worth it for some though, thanks to the dial and roller precision tools that are unlike controlling apps using a mouse or keyboard.
Logitech is launching the MX Creative Console in pale grey and graphite models, and it’s even bundling three months of Adobe’s Creative Cloud membership. The main keypad connects to a PC or Mac through USB-C, and the dialpad connects via Bluetooth or Logitech’s Bolt dongle (sold separately).
The MX Creative Console enters a crowded market, going up against editing consoles like the TourBox Elite, Loupedeck Creative Tool, DaVinci Resolve editing keyboards, and even Elgato’s Stream Deck. Logitech will start shipping the MX Creative Console for $199.99 on October 14th, with preorders beginning today.
