chuckebaby
That Contour Designs Shuttle Pro 2 and the ShuttleXpress (the smaller one) Looks intriguing to me.
Can you use it as a midi controller to shuttle within Sonar ? 

I took a quick look at some of the videos for the CDSP 2 and I'm considering one for one of my other computers that I use for Photoshop and Video Editing. One of the videos gave a code DVZN20 that if you order from Contour Design with get you a 20% discount. Not sure if it's still valid, but worth giving it a shot if you're going to purchase.
 
Also found some comments in the Sonar forum dating back to 2008 with Scott G giving reviews on the Shuttle Pro.
 
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I missed this, probably because I use a trackball that has no scroll button. But I use the keyboard all the time for shortcuts anyway. I also have ergonomic concerns so I have both the keyboard and trackball on drawers/platforms mounted lower than the desk surface.
 
I did have the ShuttleXpress for years and really liked it. I only dropped it when I got better with keyboard shortcuts (LOL go figure). I also needed the real estate on my desktop to make way for a MIDI keyboard controller.

Just been using the click-mouse-wheel shortcut... so speedy! Click- tools module appears at cursor. Click on tool, module disappears. So slick! Thank you, Bakers and buddies!

Thanks for the scroll wheel tip. I can't say I've read all the SONAR documentation, but I've been through enough of it to wonder why I hadn't seen this before. Just now I did a search to see how this feature is described. Here's one of the references: "You can press the middle mouse button to open the Tools HUD." I think I may have read this before and thought "my mouse doesn't have a middle button -- that's where the scroll wheel is." 

I realized a LOOOOONG time ago that I only scratch the surface of SONAR's capabilites.  I used to faithfully by Scott Garrius' books, but then I realized I was only scratching the the surface of them as well, so stuff like this is always welcome.
 
Thanks to both you and chuckebaby.

chuckebaby That Contour Designs Shuttle Pro 2 and the ShuttleXpress (the smaller one) Looks intriguing to me.  Can you use it as a midi controller to shuttle within Sonar ?

That reminds me, one of last Sonar updates included support for the Microsoft Dial, https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/surface-dial.  It was introduced at the same time the latest Surface Pro was.