I have one standing next to my keyboard as well. It is one of those things that bring un the proverbial "Swiss Army knife" definition. It takes about five seconds to change al port numbers. I've assigned it to the jog wheel and I just need to select the first port field and scroll down the list of 400 sysex banks with the wheel.
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I have programmed a macro in the Shuttle Pro that presses "P", for port, types the selected number, presses "enter", and then hits "down arrow" to jump to the next sysex bank. To name one silly application I've come up with, I haven't found a way to send midi bank dumps to my Waldorf MicroQ, because Sonar puts patches in Sysex View and the midi port defaults to 1, while the synth is always in another. You can reprogram it on the fly, without closing Sonar, and even have several different presets and choose them, and it keeps a macro library so it is very fast to assign one to a button if you have some infrequent task that would require it. I like it very much, but I do not really see it as a control surface, but rather a device to program sequences of keyboard shortcuts and key macros. I like it because you can program key macros, and you can program buttons to cycle through them as you press, so one, for instance, brings track view, and each time you press the button shows a different panel tab. I have one, I use it mostly to navigate through screen layouts, zooming and such.