I've discovered that I don't have enough right hands to use X2 efficiently.  I need one for my mouse, one for the pc keyboard and one for my midi keyboard.  Since I seem to need to keep my right hand on my mouse a lot of the time I end up playing the keyboard with my left hand crossed over my right and I get all tangled up...
 
I'm wondering how you guys are set up.  Do you (righthanders) end up using the pc keyboard with your left hand more or less exclusively ?
 
I've just come across what looks to be a neat solution, the Sonar X2 keyboard from logickeyboard :
 
   http://www.logickeyboard.com/shop/cakewalk-sonar-x2-2445p.html  100$ from the Cakewalk store.
 
Any of you use this ?  Is it possible to use this keyboard and the regular keyboard at the same time ?  I could see placing this Sonar keyboard on my desk to the left of me, just for the keyboard shortcuts.  The colour coding would help a lot to find the proper key quickly.   I need my regular pc keyboard in the middle since it's a 5-level multilingual keyboard.
 
I've been thinking that it would be nice to have some sort of X2-specific left-hand device, not necessarily a keyboard, that would make things easier.  I have no idea what it might be though.  This keyboard certainly seems to be a possiblity.
 
 

I am a keyboard player, who ended up ambidextrous, as I started life left handed.

I have my 2 keyboard controllers on my left, and my computer display on the right, along with my mouse.

For many things, I keep the computer keyboard on my lap.  For tricky parts, I will kick things off with the mouse on my right, and sit up and play 2-handed on the keyboards.

My only real issue is that anytime I have the headphones, the cat keeps biting at the curly cord, and it pulls the headphones off my head in the middle of takes.

I think a bigger MOUSE might give the cat pause.......

Bob Bone

Have you seen the new Sonar X2 Keyboard from Editors Keys? Quite a bit cheaper than past versions: (just google Editors Keys Sonar X2 Keyboard.)
 
 
 

I might be easier to use your mouse left-handed instead of all that cross-handed stuff. Most mouses allow you to configure them both ways. 

I am using a new $10 keyboard and the sticker set for the Sonar X series from Amazon for $7 instead of paying $100 for a special keyboard.  It works great.  I also have setups for Sound Forge 10 and Vegas 11

If you're doing professional work stickers just don't cut it. Invest in your trade and you'll better with your clients too

I have 3 monitors and have my main keyboard and mouse facing my main monitor, my third monitor is to my right but has in front of it, my controller keyboard, a wireless keyboard with a built in mouse to it so I can switch easily from left to right without having to "cross streams"

also, sometimes I use my mobile phone to start/stop/record over wireless, this helps.

markb06
If you're doing professional work stickers just don't cut it. Invest in your trade and you'll better with your clients too

It's nice you would have over a hundred bucks to burn on a keyboard.  I am using 3 different boards, for Sonar X2, Sound Forge 10 Pro and Vegas Pro 11.  My clients like how they look as they save time as well. 
To each their own.
 

I'm left handed and play my keyboard controller with my right hand while mousing with the left. Obviously that's more for leads than basslines but I could drop the octaves on my controller and play basslines with my right if needed. Of course I use two hands on the midi keyboard when playing demands call for it. I always keep my midi keyboard right in front of me and at a level for comfortable play even if that means the qwerty keyboard is off to the side or higher up out of comfortable reach. I don't use key modifiers so I don't have to worry about Ctrl + this or Shift +that. I have all the functions critical to me set up with single key bindings easily reached by my right hand while the left stays on the mouse and several functions like Transport and Scene Changes mapped to my Axiom controller.....
 
The custom keyboard looks like a good idea...if you don't use your own key bindings but does it have to look like it was made by Fisher Price ?