Pro Tools Keyboards

[BLuEWeed]

I am running Pro Tools on a PC and was looking into getting a Pro Tools custom keyboard and wanted to know what would be the best the one for windows or the one for macintosh.. the macintosh keyboards work with pc's and windows but i just dont know the downsides of getting a macintosh keyboard or the good sides of it.. please weigh in i need to know by friday

[Joseph Hanna]

The key commands are different!

If you're on a PC there is only one choice.

[BLuEWeed]

well i know that the windows key becomes the command key and the alt key becomes the option key and insert becomes help.. but i want to know if there is any downsides of getting a mac Keyboard instead.. i plan on switching to Mac somtime in the future

[Joseph Hanna]

Well...I guess it would depend on your point of view. The color coded Pro Tools keyboards are meant to be navigational tools. A visual guide to shortcuts. If those visual guides no longer applied to the intended purpose I can't imagine what use they would provide over any standard Mac or PC keyboard.

Maybe I don't understand the question??

[BLuEWeed]

well the way i understand it is that the shortcut keys on the boards are the same.. i could be wrong but im going to check into that thank you

[dpd]

there is at least one company (in the UK, IIRC) that makes nifty little key stickers for ProTools and other DAW applications for cheaps - I'm thinking $15-$25? Try a Google search. Inexpensive way to find out if you want to spend the $100+ on a custom keyboard.