Not only what you noticed but many games eat all the keystrokes and the sound will not play.
So this area is a royal mess. You must try what you have. Then you find it fails when gaming.
I'm looking to set up a soundboard of sorts, with little audio clips hot keyed but don't want to bind them to keys I use regularly. On my keyboard I have 22 macro keys but when looking in the driver software, it seems I can only set them to already existing keys. Is it possible to make it its one custom key so it doesn't interfere with anything else?

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