Seeking Mac Friendly Triple Foot Pedal

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Jonathanl

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Can anyone recommend a good quality triple foot pedal that will easily be set up to work in conjunction with my iMac, which is set up with integrated OBS, Zoom snd Stream Deck?
The only good ones I have found so far require the initial programming to be done on a PC —and I only have a Mac.
 
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StreamPanel

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Im guessing you mean a midi device? There should be apps that translate midi to keyboard keys. If it doesn't exist, I can make it, but Id be surprised if it didn't.
 
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Markium

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May I suggest a pedal with more than 3 buttons? You will be wanting more as soon as you get it working, guaranteed. Find any midi pedal, there are so many to choose from, you can have different banks giving you dozens of buttons. After that you need a way to convert to instructions to OBS. I struggled with this for a long time, I tried AppleScript, controller mate, midistroke (which was very good).. but the ultimate for iMac is the midi functions of Better touch tool. Once I found that my troubles were over. You can have it send specific commands to specific apps ONLY. That is huge.
And a new plugin called OBS-midi is now working for Mac since March which is an amazing compliment to that. The developer is very helpful too. Hope that helps.
 
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Markium

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obs-midi

Use MIDI devices to trigger events in OBS and visa versa. This has been tested working on Windows, and Linux. The current build for mac has many issues which seem to result in OBS crashing, OBS MIDI is currently going through a complete...
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MIDI Foot Controller with 2 Expression Pedals and MIDI Merge Function: Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio

MIDI Foot Controller with 2 Expression Pedals and MIDI Merge Function: Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio
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Jonathanl

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Markium said:
May I suggest a pedal with more than 3 buttons? You will be wanting more as soon as you get it working, guaranteed. Find any midi pedal, there are so many to choose from, you can have different banks giving you dozens of buttons. After that you need a way to convert to instructions to OBS. I struggled with this for a long time, I tried AppleScript, controller mate, midistroke (which was very good).. but the ultimate for iMac is the midi functions of Better touch tool. Once I found that my troubles were over. You can have it send specific commands to specific apps ONLY. That is huge.
And a new plugin called OBS-midi is now working for Mac since March which is an amazing compliment to that. The developer is very helpful too. Hope that helps.
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Thank you for taking time and thought to reoly and post your suggestions, Markium. What I did not mention is that I use and enjoy a 32 button Steam Deck unit filled with lots of great hot keys and it works smoothly.
I just want a simple triple foot pedal with usb cable that can switch between two cameras, and perhaps play a simple sound effect at the right time. That’s it. :)
 
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Markium

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my pleasure. Then something like the iRig BlueBoard with Better Touch Tool. 4 buttons, easy setup. You plug it in, open the app, press down the button you want to configure and assign it a command. ‘Send command to a specific app’ is so nice because it doesn’t matter what app you have open or what the current focus is on; your game, browser etc, OBS will get the command regardless.
 
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Jonathanl

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Thanks. I will look into this device. I almost bought Airturn quad pedal as I heard great things about it. However, I have an older Mac and cannot update past its current macOS 10.13.6 High Sierra, Plus my iMac has no blue tooth. :(
 
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Jonathanl

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Markium said:

obs-midi

Use MIDI devices to trigger events in OBS and visa versa. This has been tested working on Windows, and Linux. The current build for mac has many issues which seem to result in OBS crashing, OBS MIDI is currently going through a complete...
obsproject.com obsproject.com

MIDI Foot Controller with 2 Expression Pedals and MIDI Merge Function: Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio

MIDI Foot Controller with 2 Expression Pedals and MIDI Merge Function: Amazon.ca: Musical Instruments, Stage & Studio
www.amazon.ca

folivora.ai - Great Tools for your Mac!

folivora.ai folivora.ai
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Thanks fir this added info. Just to clarify... I use (and enjoy using without incident) a 32 key Stream Deck to trigger my OBS scenes, etc. Works like a charm. But I would still like a multi foot pedal that works with my older Mac.
 
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