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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago +1
    I would use the pedals as a video editing controller to do common things in Premiere Pro such as playing the video and trimming video.
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago +1
    I would use one pedal for copy/paste (very usefull) and the other to access to Element 14 and Ben's youtube channel (also useful ) faster !
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago +1
    i would use it for minecraft duhhh
  • danielncharlton
    danielncharlton over 11 years ago

    I would use this controller for my mac and minecraft of course and on my pc for goat simulator and playing pokemon on a gba emulator.

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    What i would do with these pedals is manly gaming(minecraft, tf2, maybe even civilization, etc.). But as i am getting into video editing and music mixing it could help. I could see these pedals to emulate a bass drum and hi hat of a drum kit or create a tempo for the Music

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    I would use it for shortcuts in Maya and Zbrush. It gets very difficult to hold ctrl+alt+shift for 20 minutes at a time while making brush strokes. it's surprising how often you have to take breaks because your pinky finger feels like it's going to fall off, and it's really killing my workflow. When I wasn't working I would rig it up to various video games and maybe even rig them up as shortcuts to things.

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  • Dumplingman125
    Dumplingman125 over 11 years ago

    There's so many ways to use these image I think the first way I would use them would be with the upcoming Star Citizen Dogfighting Module, to control the spaceship. After that, I could easily remap them to rotate creations in Inventor, or alter the code and set them up as macros for ejecting in Titanfall.

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    Use to have a new gaming style for minecraft pc.

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    i would use them to conquer the world,

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    I would use the controls for my soon to be cockpit for controlling my DIY drones.

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  • Former Member
    Former Member over 11 years ago

    i wanna win, and i tried doing that split controller and epic failed.!

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    Former Member over 11 years ago

    There are so many ways I can use them.  My primary use will be for flight simulator.  I build myself a 4 throttle control with alpha range (one for each engine on 747), flag selector and trim wheel (it wasn't pretty plain wood only but worked perfect) and I used this in conjunction with my yoke and G25 logitech racing wheel (used 2 of the 3 pedals as rudder control).  Fortunately for us we immigrated to NA but unfortunately immigration is expensive so I could only airfreight few boxes and the only thing I kept was the yoke.  I am using the keyboard, yoke and joystick to fly and not having foot rudder using makes for difficult flying especially with the helicopters.  I could extend the teensy to include other inputs as well to some trim wheels, etc.  Multiple other gaming use my main gaming is FPS so can definitely use it there.  Other uses I can see is with my video editing.

     

    I forgot to mention I want to use it in my Kerbal space ship especially those moon landing and docking where you need to apply power.

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  • k1sul1
    k1sul1 over 11 years ago

    Well, obviously I would use it for gaming, but also for programming.

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