Shortcuts are
personal things.
A standard keyboard handles everything the same way. It does not know that you reach for Undo fifty times an hour, or that zooming in and out is a constant unconscious gesture, or that brush size is something you adjust by feel rather than by sight.
Macropad1 knows. The layout was designed around Jacobo's actual workflow. The large encoder handles continuous parameters. The indicator strip gives ambient feedback without demanding attention.
Dedicated physical buttons build a different kind of muscle memory. The hand does not leave the mouse. There is no chance of misfiring a modifier combination mid-stroke.
Dragging a slider with a mouse requires precision. Turning a physical encoder is effortless. For brush size, opacity, zoom — continuous rotation is the right input for the task.
Turning the encoder shifts the light bar. You know where you are without looking away from the canvas. Peripheral vision does the work.
