@renatoram IMO macropads are most useful for applications where you want to input a small range of specific commands, hence they’re probably most popular for art and video editing. For other things it’s better to integrate those into normal typing (which is the whole premise of my Lexicon keyboard).
@nekoewen yeah I'm starting to dabble in DAWs and a macropad with rotary encoder would probably be neat to do stuff like volumes, muting, or whatever
... that's what MIDI controllers are for, after all (and in that context, maybe they're a better fit)
@renatoram There's some overlap, since the major keyboard firmware package supports MIDI. :)
@nekoewen oh yeah, I saw QMK has MIDI support... Does this mean one of these macropads could be flashed to act as a USB midi device, basically?
@nekoewen fascinating... Would QMK support something like... A MIDI layer and a "normal" one? Probably not, but I'm really clueless in this area
@renatoram As far as QMK is concerned, MIDI inputs are just another kind of keycode, so you can freely mix them with others on different layers or otherwise.