One Key, One Action, No Hunting for a Hotkey

A stream deck replaces memorised keyboard shortcuts with a grid of small LCD keys that show what they do. Press one and a scene changes, a clip records, a light dims or a chat command fires. Because every key is a screen rather than a printed legend, the surface relabels itself when you switch from streaming to editing.

Elgato, part of Corsair, defines this category. The range runs from an eight-key entry unit through the fifteen-key standard to a thirty-two-key grid, alongside models that add rotary dials and a touch strip for values a button cannot express.