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Question

Macro Key Problems

Aug 22, 2017 11:57AM PDT

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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So far, a tar pit of issues.
Aug 22, 2017 12:08PM PDT

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.

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Wew
Aug 22, 2017 12:51PM PDT

So there's no way to make a macro its own button then?

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You're back.
Aug 22, 2017 12:59PM PDT

OK, I checked our prior conversation and I'd be repeating a lot here. On the usual games, they block macros to level the playing field so that kills a lot of soundboard macros. Also keeps folk from spamming in games.

That doesn't mean there isn't a hardware way around it. Such as the Line-In jack on the PC and something like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gN_d-1OVwoU and instead of the Mic app you use any of the 100+ soundboard apps.

Now mix that into your audio and you have a soundboard in any game.