Loupedeck Live Review – Streamdeck competitor?

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As we’ve seen pretty clearly from the CPU market, the more competition there is, the better deal we as consumers get. That rings true for streaming accessories like the Elgato Streamdeck, and this, the Loupedeck Live. Much like the streamdeck, it features miniature displays that you can customise actions for, although unlikely the streamdeck, also features hardware dials and buttons to allow for extra functions. Let me take you through the hardware, software, and if you should buy one of these over the ever-popular Elgato option instead. But first, if you haven’t already, consider subscribing for more videos every Monday, Wednesday and Friday!

Hardware wise, Loupedeck has smashed it with the quality. It’s solid, with a quality feel, braided right angle USB Type C cable, and my god when you feel the dials… It’s genuinely pleasurable to use them, so solid with a subtle notchy feel. Even the buttons along the bottom feel nice and tactile. The included stand is pretty minimal, and doesn’t lift it overly high, but it’s not too bad.

Unfortunately, that’s about all I can say that is, well, positive about the live, because now I need to tell you about the software. I should note that I’ve been on “beta” software for a number of weeks at this point, trialing various versions, so some things may be classed as bugs and could be fixed by the time you get one. With that said, the bigger brother to the Live, the CT, is still rife with bugs according to it’s owners and seeing as Taran from Linus Tech Tips already reviewed the CT and the software still has pretty much all the same issues 6 months later, I’m not overly hopeful.

Anyway, here it is. Let me walk you through it. In the center, you have the main area that shows what the device will show. On the left you’ve got all possible actions you can put on, and the right has all the options for places to put those actions. The round buttons on the bottom are a separate option and page from the main screen buttons, of which you can have various workspaces – or pages which as far as I can tell are the same thing but with different ways of accessing them – and the dial pages which are separate from the touch screen pages, but included in each workspace.

Are you confused yet? Yeah, me too, but we aren’t done yet.

The actions on the left, while they are searchable, are application specific, as are the workspaces. You can only access actions for, say, OBS, when OBS is open and your selected window. You can’t control say system volume while in photoshop, or pause your music while in Premiere. Some programs, actually it’s just Spotify, do transcend application specific and can be used from outside the Spotify application profile but only when using OBS or SLOBS. What makes it worse is when you don’t have a program selected, say you click a file explorer window to drag some footage into Premiere, you lose all your Premiere options and pages until you click on the window again.

They’ve hacked a way to stop that happening with OBS which is a “lock” button that I think has the diagram the wrong way around, showing you what will happen when you press it, rather than what state it is currently in, but apparently they want to work a better way to lock you in an application in the future. I feel like that’s the wrong mentality though, as not being able to even have basic options like start/stop streaming on any page feels really limiting.

What is so monumentally frustrating about the Loupedeck Live is that it’s clear that with good software, this could be a truly phenomenal, must have device. The dials, when they work, are so much nicer and more convenient to alter audio levels mid-stream. The native API integration with not only OBS and Streamlabs OBS, but with the Adobe CC suite make it the ultimate content creator tool, if it worked.

Loupedeck have some real guts to charge a whopping £229 for this, considering most of the features either don’t work or are buggy as hell. Oh, and that’s £20 more than the massive streamdeck XL which at least at the moment, has way, way more useful integrations including with their own lights, plugins for things like your CPU and GPU temps, saving clips through Geforce experience, and live viewer counts for not just Twitch but Youtube too. Oh, and has 28 touchscreen buttons, not 12.

I really want the Loupedeck to be great, it shows real promise, but needs a serious overhaul of their software to work well, and if the Loupedeck CT is anything to go by it’s going to be a long long time before that happens. Until then, the Streamdeck is going to keep its place on my desk, as my main streaming controller, and the Loupedeck is going back in its box until it gets a lot more updates.