I personally never use these wrist rests (the Kensington Expert comes with one as well) but you should try it to see what works better for you. This makes the overall length much bigger of course, but some people prefer the support. If you prefer extra support under your wrist, the Orbit comes with a removable wrist rest that can easily be attached or removed. The ball is held in place by the body, so during transport or if you hold it upside down, the ball won’t fall out. The ball is placed solidly in the device, and can easily be popped out for cleaning purposes. The Orbit with Scroll Ring has a medium sized ball: not as large as the Kensington Expert and SlimBlade, but bigger than the Kensington Orbit Optical. If you have never used a trackball, I would recommend a finger-operated one (see the list of other finger-operated trackball here). I prefer this kind of ‘finger operated’ trackball, but as I mention in other trackball reviews as well, this is a personal preference and if you are used to a thumb-operated trackball you might argue differently. With this Kensington Orbit, you can use your thumb for the left-click, index and middle finger for the trackball, ring finger for the scroll ring and pinkie for the right-click – that is in my opinion a great set-up which allows for much speed and accuracy. As a bonus, you can program an action for when you press the left and right button at the same time, making this a hidden ‘third button’. With the TrackballWorks you can program each button, for example if you are left-handed and want the right-click on the left. I got used to it after a while, but if you’re just switching to this trackball you will feel the difference. The buttons are large but compared to most trackballs are a bit too sturdy: it takes some pressure to click. Especially the scroll ring and trackball are both working very smoothly and are accurate. Installing Kensington’s TrackballWorks software (available for download on the Kensington website) is recommended though, since it gives you options to program the buttons and speed and direction of the scroll ring.Īfter using the Orbit for just a few minutes I was really impressed with the comfort and precision. Like all modern trackball mice, this trackball immediately works without any driver installation when the typical Kensington USB plug is connected to my computer. The materials are nice: solid plastic in a matte dark-grey, with the ‘metallic’ blue ball as a stark contrast sticking out on top. On each side of the body there are two large buttons. Around the ball there is a grey rubber ring that acts as the scroll ring. The body is very small and low, and the ball is held in place by a shiny plastic ring. The design is perfectly symmetric, so can be used by both left and right-handed users. When I opened the box, took out the device, and placed the blue, medium sized ball in the body I immediately felt that this is actually a nice device. On photos it doesn’t look that impressive. I wasn’t expecting much of the Kensington Orbit trackball with Scroll Ring, but was positively surprised. Kensington Pro Fit Ergo Vertical Wireless Trackball.Kensington Orbit Fusion Wireless Trackball.I just found it on my internet travels and decided to use it. I am in no way connected to the author of this software. You can read about it’s functionality here. X-Mouse Button Control appears to be quite sophisticated in that you can set trackball button behaviour on a per application basis (via “profiles”) and within each profile up to five separate layers of button definitions can be navigated. Unfortunately, you can’t use the “chord” facility where you hold two buttons at the same time to get a further function. In the config GUI, “Middle button” refers to upper left trackball button, and “Mouse button 4” refers to the upper right. If you want to regain the use of the upper buttons, then one answer is to use X-Mouse Button Control (free software). Whilst the new Kensington Trackballworks software is Win 7 64-bit and allows easy redefinition of each trackball button, and the two upper buttons work fine in most Windows applications, nevertheless they are steadfastly ignored by Cubase 6.
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