Griffin 1040-PMT PowerMate - USB Programmable Multimedia Controller

I use my Griffin Powermate with an Intel Mac, both under OSX Leopard and Windows XP.It is a quick and easy way to control your volume, scrolling or pretty much anything else you can access using key commands.For me, its a volume control, as I use active speakers and its far cheaper than buying an analogue device to go in the physical signal chain, such as the Mackie Big Nob.Hope this is of some use to someone!

I had high hopes for the Powermate, but it's nowhere near as useful as you'd think. The push down action action is too stiff to use repeatedly, and without any buttons you can't do much with it. After about 30 minutes, I found myself ignoring it for all but scrolling in a web browser. What's worse, the top came loose, and a new Dell PC at work could not wake up the Powermate when plugged into most of its USB ports.The Powermate has its uses, and may prove very desirable as a novelty controller, but the Contour Design ShuttleXpress Controller USB Mac/PC Black is a much better idea. With five buttons and two jog/shuttle dials, it's far more practical as it can operate a whole range of shortcuts for you. The configuration software is better, and it has been perfectly reliable in operation. The Shuttle Xpress is much better value, and a genuinely useful device.

The sensitivity control does nothing, the Help button on the control panel ditto. No reply to an email to Griffin customer support.Buy a different product. I should have spent a bit more and bought the ShuttlePro 2. As my old granddad used to say, buy cheap buy twice :-((((((Disappointed that I couldn't give it zero!

...the blue light failed within a few months of use. Other than that it's a nicely made bit of kit and looks the part. Very expensive for the limited functionality though and due to the light failing in mine I can't really say I'd recommend it!

This is a discontinued product. The drivers are almost 5 years old. When I wrote to Griffin, here's what they wrote back: "Thank you for contacting us today. Sadly the PowerMate USB has not been tested to work with Windows 10. We currently have no plans to expand the compatibility of the PowerMate to Windows 10."

Great for those that make music with a DAW. I use it to control Logic X and my 3rd party plugins.

in photo looks bigger and much better manufacturedit is small, it is lightweight, it waves when you revolve it.looks very chinesse.i bought it to control dial in an software defined radio and OK, works, but not in the fashion and nice way i dreamed (it small and seedy to be the knob for a superb SWL device)what a pitty!

The item was nicely made but simply did not work with my Windows 8 system. It should have been stated that it was incompatible with W8, which would have been the honest policy.