MX Creative Console: setup, profiles, plugins and agents

The Logitech MX Creative Console is an advanced dialpad and keypad for creative apps such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro and Lightroom. The MX Creative Keypad has customisable LCD display keys, and the wireless MX Creative Dialpad has an analogue dial, a roller and keys. You set both up in Logi Options+, which Logitech offers for Windows 10 or later and macOS 14 or later. There you assign Press actions to keys and buttons, map Rotate actions to the dial and roller, and let profiles switch with the app in the foreground. The keypad also works on its own, for example as a live status pad for AI coding agents with Orbtile.

Keypad and dialpad controls in Logi Options+

The console is two devices: the MX Creative Keypad and the MX Creative Dialpad. Logitech's support documentation says each one works on its own, and that the two give the most value together.

Logi Options+ sorts actions into two kinds:

• Press actions: single events, such as saving a file or opening an application, assigned to a key or button.
• Rotate actions: progressive changes, such as volume or layer opacity, assigned to the dial or the roller.

To configure a key, button, dial or roller:

• Select your device on the Logi Options+ home screen.
• Open the KEYS or BUTTON tab and click the CUSTOMIZE icon.
• Drag an action from the right panel onto a key, button, dial or roller.

The dialpad has two extra settings:

• Dial and roller speed and direction: select the MX Creative Dialpad, click DIAL and ROLLER in the left panel, then set the direction and move the speed slider.
• Contextual dial: the dial temporarily adjusts a tool you selected on the keypad, such as brush size, then returns to its default function.

Profiles, file imports and automatic app switching

Profiles change what the console does as you move between programs. To add one, click the + button on the profile bar at the top of the device's configuration page:

• General Profile: holds actions not tied to an app. It is active when no application profile is active.
• Application Profile: a layout for one app, starting from the Default profile or START WITH A BLANK TEMPLATE.
• Import Profile: loads a saved profile from a *.lp4 or *.lp5 file.

How profiles behave:

• Adapt to App: Logi Options+ switches to an app's profile when that app opens or comes to the foreground. It is on by default.
• Export: automatic backup and restore is not available for MX Creative Console devices. To save or share a layout, open the three-dot menu on a profile icon and choose Export.
• Plugins follow the active profile: with a Photoshop profile active, for example, Premiere Pro plugin actions may be unavailable.

Marketplace plugins, the Actions SDK and version requirements

To find plugins in Logi Options+, click All Actions in the right panel to reach the plugin section. Then choose the option at the bottom to find more from the Marketplace. Options+ also installs a plugin automatically when you create a profile for an app that has one. On the Logi Marketplace page, developers can use the Logi Actions SDK to build custom plugins for their most-used apps.

Logitech recommends the latest release of each app and cannot guarantee compatibility with older versions. Its plugin page lists these minimum versions for MX Creative Console plugins:

Setting up Adobe Creative Cloud plugins

Adobe plugins have extra requirements in Logi Options+:

• Creative Cloud installation required: Adobe plugins work only with applications installed via Creative Cloud.
• Installation order: install the Adobe application first. If you installed the plugin before the application, reinstall the plugin.
• Photoshop user actions (macros): Logi Options+ lists them only while Photoshop is open. Keep Photoshop open while you assign them to keys.
• Premiere Pro control surface: open Premiere > SETTINGS > CONTROL SURFACE on a Mac or EDIT > PREFERENCES > CONTROL SURFACE on Windows. Click ADD, select LogiPlugin, then click OK.
• Lightroom pairing: open Edit > Preferences > Interface, enable external controllers, restart Lightroom, and click Pair.

Show coding-agent sessions on the MX Creative Keypad with Orbtile

Because the keypad works on its own, you can use it as a live status pad for AI coding agents while the dialpad stays with Logi Options+. Orbtile drives the keypad's nine LCD keys and two page buttons over its USB-C cable. It runs on a computer with macOS 14.0 Sonoma or later on Apple silicon, or Windows 11 (x64).

• One key per session: keys 1 to 8 show Claude Code, Codex, ZCode and Antigravity desktop sessions, scripts connected through the Adapter API, and remote sessions over SSH. Each key shows the session's name, state and, where supported, its latest words. Waiting sessions move to the front, and a tap on key 9 opens the first waiting session.
• Answers on the keys: for supported agents, hold a waiting key to open Focus mode, then press Deny once or hold Allow for 0.6 seconds. Supported multiple-choice questions can be answered on the keys too. Typed answers, unsupported requests and remote sessions stay on the computer or host.
• Options+ when you need it: Orbtile does not need Logi Options+ and never modifies it. Your Options+ keypad profile pauses while Orbtile holds the keypad. It comes back at once when you switch in Orbtile's menu, press Control-Option-Command-K on a Mac, hold both page buttons for 1.5 seconds, or quit Orbtile.

See The Logitech MX Keypad for developers, with and without Options+ and Use the Logitech MX Creative Keypad without Logi Options+ for how both setups work together.