Editing with an external control board

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This panel would be something to get going with DT.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/intechstudio/vsn1-the-visionary-controlling-tool?

Once upon a time I did a lot of CAD/CAM and used an external control board for visuals like rotating and zooming (good ol’ Silicone Graphics days). Once you get used to it, the speed boost is amazing. I do a lot of repeated tasks for 300ish images and it takes time to fling around with the mouse. A panel like the one above, shortcutting things like exposure, tone eq, sigmoid etc…

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that is a very long line of controllers like this. see e.g. loupedeck, there has been work on midi support in the past.

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Start with reading this in the manual:
https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.6/en/special-topics/midi-device-support/

Then do as darix indicated and search the forum for loupdeck and MIDI. As far as I remember the latest with substance on this topic has been the loupdeck settings from @hannoschwalm.

EDIT: You find the latter here: Midi Controller for Darktable - #103 by hannoschwalm

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Oooooh… Nice! It already exists, I’m digging already!

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also in the lighttable view you can copy paste stacks from one image to others.

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Dang that thing is pricy!

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Well, you might have a look at the Behringer X-touch mini, which works out of the box with darktable (at least under OpenSuse Tumbleweed). You just have to set up the short-cuts

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It is - but it’s worth every penny for dt usage.

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And can be had for £50

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to which device do you refer to?

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Sorry - loupdeck

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This kickstarter thing starts at $300 USD and goes up to almost $1000 USD… and its a kickstarter so they don’t even have to actually give you the hardware…

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I trust Behringher to still be around in six months

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I i meant the years-old loupedeck+, that was ~200€, sorry

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