Metagrid seems rather expensive to me. I’d appreciate it, @MacSparky, if you give us a longer take on it some time. (As you probably know) I’m a big Streamdeck user - but could use more buttons and I have an original 12.9” iPad Pro sat next to my Mac. This might be ideal but it is quite a lot of money.
One of my favorite episodes so far. It probably helps I’m a music teacher.
It seems a rare occurance where a guest gets @MacSparky to spend money, especially in real time!
This was a really interesting episode and I really enjoyed his personality.
Just want to say how happy I was to get this episode in my feed (as a composer-musician myself). Top notch guest MPU! Great episode. Also glad I fall in the middle of the same Venn diagram as @MacSparky – people who love Macs : people who love jazz
Really good episode. Thank you.
This was one of my favorite episodes I love hearing from guests who work in fields that are not obviously related to computers, but really benefit from them.
Wonderful episode! Wow!
(Tried Metagrid, works great on iPadOS 13, crashes on 14.)
But did you get $21 of value with it?
absolutely, I put this against buying a streamdeck.
To play with, and decide if I want to add a streamdeck later on I think the price is fine.
With KM native integration it’s absolutely perfect to automate your workflow.
Thank you very much for one of the best MPU ever. I especially love the passion and kindness of David Metzger!
So it was ÂŁ29 but can see this could be good value.
I set up a button for PowerPoint and one for BBEdit. Three-finger swiping left and right between the apps brought up the respective pages.
On WiFi it was slow but I plugged in via USB and that was much faster. I’d probably recommend USB for another two reasons:
- I can charge my iPad reliably.
- I won’t be messing with networking.
So I would give Metagrid a thumbs up, too.
I love the auto sync with keyboard maestro.
Create a Macro -> go to iPad; create button, done!
Agreed. David was a great guest we’ll have him back at some point in the future to catch up. I bought meta grid only to find the host app crashes on my Big Sur beta machine. Sad trombone. Hopefully they’ll get it updated soon.
I’ve been in contact with the dev. And they’re working on it.
They’re very responsive, so that’s a good sign.
In “squee mode” 
with Metagrid:
Out of the box there’s a Finder profile. It mostly does what I would want it to do.
Of course, I’ve gone for the 11 x 10 grid size - as I have with all the app-specific profiles. (Having an original 12.9” iPad Pro.)
Such a good episode! Thanks to all involved.
This was a really fantastic episode! Thank you to all involved in getting this out there. I am a nerd and have messed around with audio equipment a little bit here and there, but my sister works in the music/film industry and this episode was a great jumping off point for me to understand her work a little more and have some great conversations!
I really appreciated all of the talk about the duplicate setups, the software in use, and how it really is difficult to make a transition when things are in progress. It makes so much more sense to me know why some people wait a little bit to upgrade. Thank you again!
This was definitely a great episode. Thanks, guys!
I took a quick look at MetaGrid. I can see if I were a composer how useful it would be, especially with the built-in Cubase setup.
However, it’s a bit kludgy to have to go through Keyboard Maestro for anything more complex thank key presses and text and MIDI notes. It would be great if they added native support for running AppleScript, for example, as @MartinPacker already suggested on their forums.
I wonder if sticking with the idea of using the accessibility keyboards as described in much detail on an MPU episode a few months ago is a better choice - although there are issues there as well. That approach has more flexibility (variable button sizes on one layout, for example) and more actions, but the editor is not very user-friendly.