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Make The Surface Dial Do More Things, Such As MIDI

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The Surface Dial is a $100+ rotary control. You can turn it, and it’ll make some basic stuff happen on your Microsoft Surface. It’s silver and sleek and elegant but fundamentally, it just works via emulated keyboard shortcuts. This doesn’t really do much for translating analog rotational motion into digital feedback in a nice way, so [SaveTheHuman5] created Elephant to fix this issue.

As standard, there are two ways to work with the Surface Dial as an end-user. The easiest way is to use existing utilities to map dial actions to shortcut keys. However, for interfacing with knobs and sliders …read more

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Microsoft Expands Availability of Newest Surface Devices

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Microsoft will bring Surface Studio, Surface Dial, and Surface Book with Performance Base to more markets in April. So none of these devices will be updated anytime soon.
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Surface Book with Performance Base and Surface Dial are Now Available

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Microsoft’s Surface Book with Performance Base and Surface Dial are now available for purchase. But Surface Dial is already sold out.
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Dial It Up: This is the Most Innovative Surface Product Yet (Premium)

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Microsoft enthusiasts are understandably going ga-ga over the expensive Surface Studio. But in doing so, they’re missing out on the bigger Surface innovation: Surface Dial.
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