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ControllerMate is a practical and very useful Mac OS X application that you can use to configure various buttons, hat switches and axes on HID devices
to perform the desired mouse, keyboard or Finder action.

ControllerMate building blocks are triggered by controls on devices or MIDI messages. Each type of building block performs a small task. Building blocks can be combined to perform complex functions.

ControllerMate’s built-in helper is designed to run in the background and monitor that attached controllers in order to perform the current programming when the application is not running. In other words, you can quit ControllerMate after you finished setting it up and let the background app take over. Thanks to ControllerMate, you can reconfigure drivers and personalize the default behavior of a mouse or keyboard that uses the ControllerMate driver.

Hence, by using a driver configuration, you can enable or disable buttons, or change their function altogether. MIDI messages can be used to trigger building blocks just like you would do with a joystick, mouse or keyboard. You also have the option to use ControllerMate and create, and send MIDI messages via MIDI sources.

Driver configurations can be used to change the default behavior of a keyboard or mouse that uses ControllerMate's driver.

All buttons on a keyboard have some default function or another. Most are useful, some are not. A driver configuration allows one button on a keyboard act like another, or can turn a button off completely. Buttons that have been turned off can still be used to trigger building blocks.

A driver configuration for a mouse can include a custom acceleration curve. This curve can be one of the standard curves, a standard curve with an adjusted speed or sensitivity, or an entirely custom curve created point by point.

Multiple configurations can be created for the same keyboard or mouse — use building blocks to control when a configuration is active.