Paper controls

What it is

Paper controls turn a printed sheet into a controller. Print a stream deck, a keyboard or a DJ controller, lay it on your desk, the floor or a shelf where your webcam sees it, and tap it: Aden sees the tap and does what that pad is set to do on your computer.

• Stream deck: fifteen pads. Each one presses a shortcut, plays or skips music, changes the volume, opens a link or an app, or sends MIDI. Set a pad to OBS's scene shortcut and switch scenes from paper.
• Keys: two octaves, C3 to C5, that play MIDI notes in your music app.
• DJ: two decks with four hot cues, sync, cue and play, and a crossfader between them, all MIDI for your DJ app to learn.

Several sheets can lie in view at once: each one has its own markers.

Set it up

1. Search Paper controls in ⌘K, or New paper stream deck, New paper keyboard or New paper DJ controller.
2. Click a pad on the sheet to choose what it does. Search the list, or pick Shortcut… and press the keys.
3. Print. The PDF opens ready to print, and stays in Downloads. Print at actual size (100%).
4. Lay the sheet flat, all four corners in view, and press Start.

Name the sheet, switch between Letter and A4, pick the MIDI output or delete the sheet with the settings button.

MIDI

MIDI pads send to the output you pick in the sheet's settings. On a Mac, turn on the IAC Driver in Audio MIDI Setup (Window, Show MIDI Studio, IAC Driver, Device is online) and pick its bus: every music and DJ app can listen to it. A connected MIDI device works too. A key sends its note while your finger is down; the crossfader follows your finger.

Keys and media keys

Shortcut and media pads need your Mac to allow Aden in **System Settings

Privacy & Security > Accessibility**. The window asks with Allow.

The camera picture never leaves your computer.