HUION H420 OSU Graphics Drawing Tablet Signature Pad with Digital Stylus and 3 Express Keys Black

I've used this tablet on Photoshop CS5, Corel Painter 12, Corel Painter Essentials 5, and even Microsoft Paint! And this tablet works flawlessly on all of them. The pen is pressure sensitive. In Corel Painter, the harder you press, the broader the brushstrokes or pen strokes. The pressure can be adjusted in settings.The pen can also be used as a mouse. The cursor moves in response to movement of the pen when the pen is hovered over the pad. Touch the pen to the pad for left-click. You can drag and drop windows, re-size windows, and perform other functions as easily with the pen as with a mouse. The tablet is compatible with a multi-monitor setup. I have no problem mapping the tablet to my dual monitors. You can also map your tablet to just one monitor or a PORTION of the monitor (by specifying the x-y coordinates). Nifty!Installation is easy. Important: BEFORE you connect the tablet to the USB port on your computer, you want to install the driver FIRST, and THEN connect the tablet to the computer. The driver is located on the CD (the Huiontablet Website was down when this review was written, so I was unable to access the latest driver on the Website). If Autorun doesn't kick in to auto-launch the setup program when you insert the CD, here's what you do on a PC: Navigate to [CD Drive]\Windows Driver\Driver for 680S_H420_420_H58L_H690 and double-click on Setup. (On a Mac, the installation files are located in [CD Drive]\Mac Driver\H690_H420_420_PenTablet setup.mpkg).The only thing I dislike about the tablet is you can't change its orientation for lefties like myself i.e. orient the tablet so the 3 shortcut buttons are on the right, not the left. Still, despite the downside, this tablet has exceeded all of my expectations. In fact, it is light years ahead of my antiquated Wacom Graphire "Steel-Blue" Tablet. I don't know this tablet compares with a modern Wacom tablet, but I'm pretty sure it's a safe bet to say this tablet is a very, very good alternative, especially if you're on a tight budget.

For the price, this tablet is great. For those of you who want to test the waters and see if the tablet play-style is better for you, you may have found the tablet you've been looking for.I was a mouse player at first, but felt restricted due to the amount of wrist movement involved in completing large jumps or going through fast-paced songs. There was a lot of friction/drag that I was dealing with and it was recommended that I play on a low mouse sensitivity (800-1k) even though I thought higher sensitivity reduced the amount of effort involved in completing a song. I saw that a friend of mine had this tablet and he said he had noticed an improvement over mouse, so I pulled the trigger. I thought, why not see what this is like.Upon receiving the tablet, I plugged it in and instead of using the (possibly older) drivers that came with it on the CD, I downloaded the latest drivers from Huion's website. The install went through and allowed me to configure the tablet. First thing I did was change the screen to match my osu! Unchecked "Support TabletPC". Went into advanced settings and selected "Screen ratio" so that the tablet area 1:1 matches what you're seeing in game. Make sure the "Control cursor" option is checked.Next, press start and search for the "Pen and Touch" setting (Win10). Double click the "Press and hold" option, uncheck the box. Click on flicks, make sure that these are unchecked. Having these checked will cause any fast movement of the pen to preform an action, which we don't want to happen in this case. Click apply.-----osu! settings:Settings\mouse :**Raw input enabled**Map absolute raw input to the osu! window: Disabled (optional, but theres no need for this to be enabled since we have this configured in the drivers).**Disable mouse buttons in play mode : Enabled (Not optional. If you don't have mouse buttons disabled, when you press the pen to the tablet it will count as you holding left click. Since you're already pressing left click, it won't let you use Z/X to hit notes and you'll miss everything. F10 is the hotkey to disable or enable these, so be careful if you use the other F keys.:Settings\Other :**OS TabletPC support : Enabled(Optional) I used a small knife to pry the button off of the side of the pen. If these buttons are pressed they will stop the movement of the cursor in-game, even if you have them set to do nothing in the driver. I kept accidentally pressing these and i decided that they HAD to GO lol. The button will come off easily and is not held in there by any wires. The good thing about this is that if you ever want to have the side button back, you can simply put it back in. Just don't lose it ;)That should be all of the settings that you need to configure. Seems like a lot but it doesn't take long and once you do it you're set and only need to open the driver again to switch the monitors that the pen is active on.Onto the actual review. When I first started trying to play on the tablet there was a bit of a learning curve. I had never used a pen before and wasn't sure on how I should grip the pen or where I should keep the tablet itself. I am also left handed, so I had to switch hands (left for the pen, right for tapping num keys). Within a couple of days though I had this thing down. I was going all over the screen easily without any friction and found that I could now keep up with long jumps and fast paced songs. Before I would fail spinners, causing me to lose my FC, and I had a tough time going from a spinner to immediate next note whereas now I can get additional points from spinning so fast. This seems to have resolved the issues I had with a mouse. Once you get past the learning curve I feel that the improvement is very noticeable. To me this is the best way to play osu! Yes there are pro mouse players out there, not hating on mouse players (tablets aren't for everyone) but for me I was able to exceed the amount of skill that I had with the mouse in a very short amount of time. If you regularly play osu!, then I would recommend trying a tablet and seeing if it improves your experience.This tablet has not given me any issues5/5