I'm thinking there's got to be something better than the standard scoot across the table mouse for music production. Something about reaching for that mouse rubs me the wrong way.
What are you using? Trackpad? Trackball?
What are you using for a mouse?
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- KVRist
- 78 posts since 23 Oct, 2003 from Port Arthur, TX
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- KVRist
- 435 posts since 6 May, 2004 from Land of a million drums
I had been using the same Microsoft wired compact mouse since 2008. When I got a new PC in May I decided it was time for me to go wireless (very scary indeed) and I got a Logitech M220 Silent mouse with a Logitech studio series mouse pad. It seems to be working alright but every now and then it bugs out on me and acts jittery until I switch it off and turn it back on again. MODERN TIMES.
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- KVRist
- Topic Starter
- 78 posts since 23 Oct, 2003 from Port Arthur, TX
This sounds interesting. Can you elaborate? Does it make anything in particular easier? Or make more sense?
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- KVRist
- 72 posts since 7 Dec, 2019
I love this mouse:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN7W49PL
I also use a touch-screen monitor with my desktop, which is great for real-time knob twiddling. I have a HUION tablet, which is fine for art, but doesn't quite work for me in music. I wish it did, because regular mice give me tendonitis. The ergo mouse helps a lot, as does the touch-screen, but the pen requires no flexion of the index finger.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN7W49PL
I also use a touch-screen monitor with my desktop, which is great for real-time knob twiddling. I have a HUION tablet, which is fine for art, but doesn't quite work for me in music. I wish it did, because regular mice give me tendonitis. The ergo mouse helps a lot, as does the touch-screen, but the pen requires no flexion of the index finger.
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- KVRAF
- 12239 posts since 7 Sep, 2006 from Roseville, CA
Apple Magic Mouse (80%) and Magic Trackpad (20%). I also use an SSL UF1 with custom maps for my main DAWs, which has become part of my muscle memory for music production.
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- KVRist
- 490 posts since 14 Jan, 2026 from United Kingdom
A generic Dell mouse, paired with a generic WinXP/7 Dell keyboard.
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- KVRAF
- 37508 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Ditto - trackpad also functions as XY pad
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- KVRist
- 375 posts since 13 Jul, 2003 from Berlin
Apple Trackpads one on the left and one on the right to balance and try to avoid RSI... disclaimer: it's not working, I still have RSI in both hands 
Sometimes a wired Logictech m500
Sometimes a wired Logictech m500
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- KVRian
- 883 posts since 26 Aug, 2005 from Oregon, USA
I've gone through various mouse and trackpad devices and I always end up back with an Apple Magic Mouse, but we all are different. Now I place my laptop to the right of my main monitor so I could use it's trackpad from time to time so that's another combo solution. But I'm trying to use keyboard shortcuts as much as possible as that is IMHO the fastest way to interact with a UI.
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- KVRian
- 649 posts since 10 Jan, 2026
The one that came with my old pc.
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- KVRAF
- 8141 posts since 13 Jan, 2003 from Darkest Kent, UK
Some chunky logitech (650?) that fills my hand nicely.
Alternated with a trackball for a long time to help finger pains i had but those seem to have gone so just the mouse now. Was never as precise with the trackball for some reason, especially in graphic programs.
I think it's literally decades of muscle memory but can't get on with trackpads at all, holding down modifiers while right-click dragging or whatever is just not a doable thing for me
Alternated with a trackball for a long time to help finger pains i had but those seem to have gone so just the mouse now. Was never as precise with the trackball for some reason, especially in graphic programs.
I think it's literally decades of muscle memory but can't get on with trackpads at all, holding down modifiers while right-click dragging or whatever is just not a doable thing for me
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- KVRian
- 595 posts since 20 Jun, 2005
I've always used a wired gaming mouse because of it's precision and predictability.
From G300s to G302 to G502 (with it's remappable extra buttons), they were all great.
As I've aged, heavy mouses became a problem. G502 weights 121 grams, so my fingers started to hurt (I use my fingertips to move the mouse).
So I've bought a lighter wired mouse, Pulsefire Haste 2. Perfect mouse, 54 grams, easy to click middle-click, soft cord that didn't get in the way too much.
Then that cord started to get in the way too much, so last prime day I got a Keychron M3 mini wireless. Perfect mouse, 54 grams, easy to click middle-click, 2.4 GHz + Bluetooth + USB A dongle + USB C dongle + web based configurations (no bloatware). Perfection! So far...
So now is Keychron M3 mini wireless + (essential) Linearmouse app on mac.
From G300s to G302 to G502 (with it's remappable extra buttons), they were all great.
As I've aged, heavy mouses became a problem. G502 weights 121 grams, so my fingers started to hurt (I use my fingertips to move the mouse).
So I've bought a lighter wired mouse, Pulsefire Haste 2. Perfect mouse, 54 grams, easy to click middle-click, soft cord that didn't get in the way too much.
Then that cord started to get in the way too much, so last prime day I got a Keychron M3 mini wireless. Perfect mouse, 54 grams, easy to click middle-click, 2.4 GHz + Bluetooth + USB A dongle + USB C dongle + web based configurations (no bloatware). Perfection! So far...
So now is Keychron M3 mini wireless + (essential) Linearmouse app on mac.