Contour
Contour is a driver and control software for Contour Design's hardware products—programmable input devices like the Shuttle Pro V2 and various ergonomic mice and keyboards. The software lets users customize button mappings and control settings to streamline workflows in professional creative applications including Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, and music production tools like Logic Pro and Cubase. It is widely used by video editors, motion graphics artists, audio engineers, photographers, and other creatives who rely on hardware controllers to accelerate repetitive tasks without leaving their main timeline or canvas.
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1 suggestionThe search results confirm that Contour's macOS driver is currently Intel-only and requires Rosetta 2 to run on Apple Silicon Macs. Contour Design's own support documentation explicitly references Rosetta 2 as essential and provides a Rosetta 2 installation guide for macOS Tahoe (OS 26, released September 2024), which indicates they are aware of the dependency but have not yet shipped a native Apple Silicon build. The vendor is clearly still actively maintaining the driver (version 4.0 and recent documentation updates), but no native ARM64 build has appeared in the search results. Contact Contour Design directly through their support page at contourdesign.com/support to ask whether a native Apple Silicon build is planned. Given the September 2028 deadline when Apple removes Rosetta 2, this is worth asking about sooner rather than later so you can plan your hardware ecosystem accordingly. In the meantime, the driver continues to work under Rosetta 2 on current macOS versions, but that compatibility will end when macOS 28 ships.
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