Stream Deck +, Audio Mixer, Production Console and Studio Controller for Content Creators, Streaming, Gaming, with customizable touch strip dials and LCD keys, works with Mac and PC

The Elgato Stream Deck + in White is an absolute upgrade for anyone who wants more intuitive control over their workflow. The build quality is top-notch as always solid, premium, and the white finish looks stunning on a clean desk setup. The combination of customizable buttons, touch strip, and rotary dials makes it incredibly versatile. Assigning actions is super easy through the Elgato software, and the dials are surprisingly useful for adjusting volume, switching scenes, or controlling lighting with real-time precision. Everything feels smooth and responsive. What I really appreciate is how well it integrates with OBS, audio mixers, and productivity apps. Whether you're streaming, video editing, or just want quick shortcuts for daily tasks, it adds genuine efficiency. A bit pricey, yes but you can feel where the money goes. If you want both functionality and aesthetics, this is one of the best tools you can put on your desk. Highly recommended.

Benefits for Video Editing: Efficiency: Video editors can dramatically speed up their workflow by assigning common tasks to the Stream Deck+ buttons and dials, cutting down the time spent navigating menus or remembering keyboard shortcuts. Tactile Feedback: The physical buttons and dials provide a satisfying tactile experience that keyboard shortcuts lack. This allows editors to focus more on their project and less on hunting for commands or settings. Multi-functionality: The ability to customize each key and dial for specific software allows editors to create highly specialized setups, saving time and ensuring that all necessary tools are readily available. Enhanced Focus: By centralizing control on a single device, editors can maintain focus on the creative aspects of video production without being distracted by software navigation. Conclusion: The Elgato Stream Deck+ is a valuable asset for video editors, offering a high degree of customization and control. Its integration with popular editing software, combined with its tactile input options, makes it a powerful tool to enhance workflow, save time, and improve precision in editing tasks. Whether you're an amateur or a professional, the Stream Deck+ can significantly elevate your editing efficiency and creativity.

A beautifully engineered product. The rotary encoders are solid and precise and the touchscreen works very well. To really get the best out of the Streamdeck range, you should augment Elgato's own software with the free open source Bitfocus Companion product. This adds enormous power and flexibility to these products and overcomes many of the issues that others have reported. It works alongside Elgato's own software and allows you to do amazing things like define separate actions for rotating the encoders left or right, provides feedback so that the button states always reflect the active state on the controlled device, and many other things, including live VU meters back from a Yamaha mixing desk.

I don’t really use this for software like photoshop etc. But I do have several profiles and find it to be very useful for average computing tasks. So far I use it for spotify, to change vol, song, pause etc. Discord, to mute, deafen, and change vol of specific people with especially erratic microphone volumes. Some video games like MMOs to swap class at the touch of a button. And to change my own microphone on the fly. All these basic things that may require an alt tab or fiddling with an application. It streamlines the process of using other programs. Its not really affordable and definitely a luxury item, for what it does it could be much cheaper. However it is a very beautiful and sturdy piece of machine, and also has a vast amount of readily made plugins and support which make it reliable. These things make it worth it in my opinion over something much cheaper. The small screens make it seem so much more refined. I was debating going for the XL with all the buttons but I’m glad i went for this, the dials are very useful and since you can make endless profiles, you can in theory have endless buttons macroed and its not nearly as large. You’d simply see more on the XL. But you have swipe features on the dial version which makes it even easier to use.

Bought as a present for my partner and he loves it, he has found it extremely easy to set up and use. It has great customisability and works greta either way his pc set up

A great piece of equipment for controlling many things on my PC or Mac. Not just for stream controls but great for productivity and even smart home controls like Home Assistant.

Had this a few months and use it mainly in Flight Sim 2024. I was a little sceptical regarding the limited number of buttons and would I use the knobs? Both proved to be groundless concerns. You do need to plan your screens to maximise efficiently, but, that probably is a good thing, as the end result will be better. The knobs have been very useful in VR to move around the cockpit - left -right, closer - further and up and down. The ability to click on the knob(s) provides me with a quick method to recentre my view in VR. The lower display is a good aid to memory and again within the flight sim I have a knob set to scroll thru the cockpit panels and as I do so the panel number appears on the screen. Essential? No, but nice touch. Oh, and talking of nice touches the wallpaper feature ( if you pick the right image, I would suggest an abstract ) is cool. So for myself its been good but your milage may vary.

Where to start with this? So, it takes a bit of time to figure out the best use cases and how to make it do what you want it to do, but it is an absolute game changer when you get it figured out and dialled in. I work from home and spend a lot of time in Teams/Zooms calls and a lot of that is for presentations and training - I'm honestly wondering how I managed before I got this thing and that's before I take into account the XLR input, which honestly makes it worth it on its own. My initial experience with it was a bit of a mixed bag. It's easy to add to your PC out of the box, and the Stream Deck store is super helpful and useful. Like all new things you have to figure them out and I didn't find it enormously intuitive, but once you get over the initial teething issues this thing (and its big brother the XL) is a beast. Using it is a positive experience, the buttons have a great feel to them, the swipe panel is handy and the multi-function knobs are great - they feel awesome, and their ability to both turn and be pressed for functions like muting or switching inputs is fantastic, especially if you need to change audio feeds on the fly. Now lets talk about the clever bit - I use a Shure XLR mike and I've experimented with a couple of different phantom power solutions, but they took up a ton of space and honestly the results were a bit hit and miss - and you can see that my desktop is a pretty crowded place. Pop the XLR dock into the back and suddenly not only have a freed up a bit of real estate but, and this is the good bit, it just works... (once you've updated to the latest version of the app). Need to adjust your mic gain - add a gain control to any of the open dials, need to mute yourself - assign a button or a dial.