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what's up guys Kyle here with awesomesauce Network welcome back to the channel today I'm going to be doing a thorough unboxing and overview of this gaming keyboard from Corsair this is their RGB I'm sorry they're k70 RGB gaming mechanical keyboard in Cherry MX red switches now there's been a lot of hype around the k70 RGB that being said I was going to do a thorough unboxing and overview for you guys today because I know a lot of you are very interested in it and have been following the whereabouts and all of the updates that Corsair has been releasing on this keyboard so now that it's finally out on the market I'm going to do a thorough walkthrough of the keyboard itself as well as the software because honestly 90% of this keyboard and what makes it special is the software so please forgive this extremely long video it's a lot longer than my average videos but I think you guys are going to benefit from it especially if you're thinking about dropping 170 bucks on this thing I'm sure you want to know as much as there is to know about it so on that note I'm going to take it out of the box and we're gonna have a closer look all right so really quickly guys inside the box you get a warranty guide as well as a handy-dandy wrist rest for economic comfort if you guys are familiar at all with the original K 70 this is pretty much the exact same wrist rest just snaps onto the bottom like so it also has these rubber pads to keep your keyboard from sliding around other than that you'll notice that I actually have two keyboards out here the bottom which of which is the k70 RGB and the top one is a regular k70 keyboard non RGB so i just wanted to pull them out really quick to give you a reference of comparison between the two and you'll notice right off the bat they're pretty much exactly identical in physicality with a couple exceptions the first of which is that the K 17 on RGB has this WASD button which basically lights up the WASD and arrow keys in red whereas that button is completely omitted on the RGB bottle because of course you'll be able to configure all of that within the software itself another physical difference you'll notice between these two keyboards is that the non RGB K 70 actually has a USB 2.0 pass-through on it where the RGB version does not and you're probably wondering why does this $170 more updated recent keyboard not have a USB 2.0 pass-through and I really haven't done too much research myself I still am wanting to reach out to Corsair to find out an actual answer to this question but my right now is that they had to make some extra room for whatever led controller is powering this RGB keyboard and as a result they had to sacrifice a USB 2.0 pass-through like I said just a theory I'm not sure if that's what it is but I can find out more about that and let you guys know in the future but that is a difference to keep in mind additionally you do have a polling rate in BIOS which on on both keyboards it's exactly identical it lets you switch between one two four and eight millisecond pulling rates so depending on your preferences if you even notice the difference when changing your polling rate that option is available to you but beyond that these two keyboards are pretty much the same you get a full QWERTY keyboard layout a full numpad multimedia functions including stop rewind play pause and fast-forward you have a volume knob up and down as well as a mute button some LED indicators as well as a Windows lock button as well as a brightness adjustment that gives you four levels of brightness completely off 33% 66% and 100% brightness aside from that this is a full aluminum construction it's a brushed aluminum finish just like the regular case 79 RGB model and you do also get that braided six-foot cable that is not detachable which I personally like because it means that there won't be any potential for a port to get damaged if this thing gets moved around too much and also you get four feet on the back that pop out to elevate this keyboard for ergonomic purposes and you also have some rubber padding back there to make sure that it doesn't slip and slide around the last difference that I wanted to point out between these two keyboards lies underneath the key caps themselves so here looking at the k70 RGB keyboard first off does have cherry MX red switches which is nice and you also get a clear casing underneath the key cap as opposed to a solid black casing with the non RGB version but the real difference here are the three LEDs that are underneath each of these key caps as opposed to one led on the case seventy-nine RGB now the reason why this has three LEDs per key is because it has a red green and blue value for each of these LEDs and based on the combination of those three colors you can get an almost infinite color range to choose from when you're in the software so based on those values you get up to sixteen point eight million different colors to choose from which is quite frankly the biggest difference between the RGB keyboard versus its predecessor now beyond that I did want to point out that the US connectors here for both keyboards serve slightly different functions the one for the non RGB keyboard has one for power as well as a second one for that USB 2.0 pass-through whereas the RGB keyboard has one for power and a second one for even more power to actually power every single LED that's on this keyboard now keep in mind that each of these keys have three LEDs underneath them so you're going to need a little bit more juice and that's what that second USB port is for now that said let's go on to the really in depth and really complex software but we're going to we're going to power through it and it's gonna be cool it's gonna be awesome alright so now we're finally going to get into the meat of this video which is the software as I might have mentioned earlier it's going to take up the bulk of this video because it's so complex and in-depth there's a lot to it and I've actually undergone the task of reading through the whole thing it's about 140 pages which is just cruel and unusual of course there but it is very thorough and I appreciate all the attention to detail that they included in this ridiculous manual so if you're up to the task yourself go ahead and go to Corsair comm slash downloads and you can download the manual as well as the software which of course you're going to need to take full advantage of this keyboard so that being said you can actually find the Corsair software in your system tray you go down here you can right-click it and there's some options so you've got a list of your various profiles that you've created by default there is a profile already made called default and you can just manually switch between those by clicking on them you can also enable automatic profile switching which we'll get more into in a bit as well as hide or show your OSD your on-screen display which I'll talk about more later help about stop all macros disable control break listening and you can quit but for now we're just going to go into the software so go ahead and double click that icon and here we are we are in the software now the first thing I want to talk about here is profiles now you can create different profiles based on your various needs that you might have when using your computer so for example you can create a profile for editing called editing when you're using Adobe Premiere Pro cs6 for example or Creative Cloud or Vegas whatever it is or you can have a different profile for gaming for example you can even get specific and make a profile for an individual game so you could have a battlefield 4 profile for when you when you're playing battlefield 4 so to create a new profile you go into the profiles tab make sure that's selected and you click new and I'm going to type via 4 here oops sorry for the typos guys the tripods right in front of me to get this angle of the keyboard so it's a little funky but you can write some notes here battlefield 4 game profile right very useful notes and you can also link each profile to a specific program if you want to enable that automatic profile selection like I was talking about earlier when I was in the system tray so basically you can go browse and find battlefield 4 and you can link it so that anytime you start a battlefield 4 this profile gets automatically selected and boom you're in it you don't have to do it anything you have to think about it it's quite a no-brainer which is nice and also you have some on-screen display settings so anytime this profile gets enabled you can choose whether or not to display the mode that you're in and for how long that displays as well as the DPI that you've set and as well as a timer and I'll get more into timers in a bit but for now I'm going to make a 5 second display for both mode and dpi anytime I select the battlefield 4 profile click OK I'm going to uncheck this I'm not actually going to link it right now for the sake of the video and I'm going to click OK and as you can see here in your drop down menu of profiles you have battlefield 4 now and just beneath that you have your list of modes so for whatever profile you might be in or selecting you have a list of modes just beneath that now modes you can create a number of modes for different further specific functions in each profile so for example in the battlefield 4 profile you might have a mode for sniping so you might have a sniper mode or you might have a medic mode based on your specific needs so to create a new mode you're going to go into the mode list which is this left column right here this left panel you're gonna hit the plus sign and you can make a new mode and let's call this one sniper and keep you all right have types of notes there and there you can see your sniper mode appears just below your default mode and you can orient the the arrangement of these different modes by right clicking and dragging them to your heart's desire and there is a reason for that this this order does matter if you want it to and so I'm going to explain that in a bit so for now I'm going to order it like this and there are several different things that you can do with these modes alright so for one if you select the little menu icon next to the specific mode you can edit that mode you can delete it you can duplicate the mode in case you want a one if you want to create a second mode that's very similar to this existing one but you don't want to have to redo all the configurations that you previously assigned you can just duplicate it and then modify it from there it'll save you a lot of time you can also reset all the mode settings to default and you can skip this mode in mode switching when you're switching back and forth between different modes and I'm going to explain this in a bit too you can also export your modes and share them with friends or just have them on hand as backups in case you accidentally delete one or and whatnot you can also import those modes with this icon right here pretty sweet stuff so as you might imagine it's pretty easy to quickly rack up a high number of different profiles and modes in this software so you really need an easy way to switch between all of those relatively quickly and there is a way to do that so first you want to select your profile battlefield 4 and your mode default that you wish to edit you're going to right click the key that you wish to assign the role or task of mode selection or switching click that and it brings up these various options the first of which is direct mode selection so this lets you choose exactly which mode you want to switch to when you press that button you also have switch to next mode in the list so this is also your modes list so if you enable that it'll actually go from default to sniper and in the sniper mode if you have that enable that would go from sniper to medic because medics the next one in the list and if you check the box that says loop back to the top when reaching the end of that list when you reach the bottom you get to medic and you press that key again it'll go back to default which is nice it just lets you cycle through all of them seamlessly so you don't hit a dead end when you reach the bottom of the list which which kind of suck especially in mid game you can also go backwards so if you want to start from medic and then go to sniper and then go to default and so forth you can also loop that as well and you can by this setting to the same button or key in the current profile and that's good because when you're doing mode selection switching and you're assigning a key that task you want to make sure that it's consistent across all modes so you can see after I selected that under the sniper mode we now have the tilde also switching modes as well as the medic it's also the mode switching key now as well and of course you can assign a key to switch between different profiles so you can select that and once again you have your direct selection a direct profile selection option just like with the modes so you can select any of the profiles that you have there specifically or you can have it scroll through a list and you actually have to define this list because unlike modes where it already has a list configured your profiles are all in a drop-down menu so there's really no standardized list for it you kind of have to make it yourself so go ahead and select your list whatever order so let's say I want default to be the first in that list and then battlefield 4 and then editing so now it's going to go you can select either go to the select the next profile on the list or the previous profile on the list depending on your your preference and you can have it loop if you want as well go ahead and click assign and now you have a profile switching button and if you press the tilde you can see down here and your tray I'm now in default profile and just like the modes you can right click your profile switching key and you can clone it to all modes in profile so even if you go to your sniper mode here this is now the profile switching key same with default all right so once you've made a couple modes that you're happy with you can start assigning actions to individual keys now there's a lot of different things you can do here so to get started you want to make sure that you've selected the profile as well as the mode that you wish to edit and then go ahead and right-click any one of these keys you wish to assign an action to you can pretty much select any key here even the multimedia multimedia keys as well as the brightness and Windows lock key even the mute button the only thing you can't assign a function to or an action to is the volume wheel itself from the top right corner here but for these purposes I will right click the tilde button and I'm going to assign a new action and over here we've got a new menu the actions editor there's a bunch of options here I'm just going to go down the list one by one so starting with macro you can name your macro and starcraft2 is the first thing that comes to mind when I think of macros on a gaming keyboard and you can type in any notes that you might have so this is secret attack no one else will know unless they're watching this video and then from there you can just hit record when you're ready to record your your keystrokes or your key presses so you just from here just type whatever you want space backspace enter tab qo6 there we go alright that's good enough I'm going to stop recording and as you can see it's recorded my list of actions that I just put in even records the delays or the pauses in real time that I recorded as well now some of you may like this and may want these pauses kept in there if you're being really specific or sometimes you just want it to run instantaneously and you want to get rid of all these pauses if you just want to get rid of one pause you can right-click it and delete or you can you can do that for anything really if you accidentally pressed key one when you meant to press key to you can right click delete all right click delete and then you can add in a stroke or even a mouse event so you can add a mouse click event a mousemove event or a keyboard event so in this case I'm going to click keyboard event a key press and I'm going to hit to and now you can either insert that that move below or above the highlighted position right here so I'm going to insert it above and as you can see press key to is is now has now been recorded and also you're probably going to want to do something like add in a release key too so I'm going to right click here add another keyboard event key release and - and we're going to go insert above and voila all right now if you want to get rid of all of these all of these pauses you can clear all the delays and now you can see it's just the keystrokes that have been recorded you also have the option to undo if you made a boo-boo which is very forgiving but I didn't make a boo-boo I want to clear all the delays and you also have some other macro options here on the right side you can choose when you want your macro to start whether you want to start it right when you press that key that you're assigning it to or when you release that key up to you double macros you can enable a second macro when you release this key it'll start a second one and you can actually choose from a list of pre-made macros or I'm sorry macros that you've made here's a list of some macros that I created in the past so let's do renders I don't know why you'd have a render macro when you're playing Starcraft 2 but whatever you can also choose when this macro is terminated if at all so you can have it run interrupted uninterrupted I'm sorry or you can allow interruptions and then resume so if you press the assigned key it starts the macro but if you press it again it'll pause it and then you can press it again to resume all right you can also terminate the macro completely when you press the assign key a second time or you can actually queue a second macro while you're executing the first one so let's say I press the tilde it executes macro one I'm sorry it executes that macro and if I press it again it's it's going to queue the second macro so when that first one finishes it's going to start the second one so there's a lot of different functionality here it gets really detailed and you can really just spend hours configuring all these different functions you can also choose whether or not you want this macro to repeat on or off so depending on if you tap the assigned key you can have the action repeat itself while pressed while you're pressing the key in as well as just none at all or you can have it repeat a specific number of times as well as delay the amount of time between these action repeats it just goes on and on as far as all the customizability here so you can change it constantly in milliseconds or you can actually have it delay in random intervals between x and y amounts of milliseconds and lastly you've got some options here for lighting so I'm going to get into lighting later but for now all you need to know here is that you can assign different lighting effects to these individual actions so when you press that tilde button if you want it to create a ripple effect or if you wanted to create if you just want it to turn green for five seconds you can configure that in the Lighting's tab and you can pull down the drop down menu and select green when you're done configuring all these settings in the actions editor you can click OK let's do OK and now if you highlight that that assigned key you can see that it says Starcraft 2 there you go and when you press that key it'll execute your macro so that's that's cool so the next action you can assign a key is the text action this is a bit more straightforward than a macro I'm going to go ahead and name this screw you guys and some notes now this is pretty simple basically let's say there's something that you generally type out whether it's a string of numbers or letters or words or it's a sentence let's say it's a phrase that you commonly say in in-game chat when you're playing games something like screw you guys I'm going home let's say you say that a lot and you're you're sick and tired of typing it all out over and over so you can actually assign that to an action key and you can choose whether or not you want a delay in between characters in a matter of milliseconds and you can choose if you want this action to repeat based on these various functions basically the same options that you saw with the macro are available with the txt action so led functionality as well you can select one of these let's say I want to do a ripple and you click OK now the next action on the list is keystroke so various functions like copy paste or opening up the Start menu can all be done with a single click of the key with the keystroke function so I'm going to name this copy and yeah add some notes you always got to add a note in there and you've got a drop down list here so there's some some pre-configured ones that they've written out for you so you can go to they got things like switching between open programs so your alt tab saving all copy paste I'm going to select copy there you go same actions here action repeat delay between actions lighting effects all that jazz and you select ok and now when you hit tilde you've copied and of course I think if you did something like that it would make sense to have another key you would assign another key paste so you have two keys copy and paste and probably one for cut as well next up you can assign keys to open up certain applications or programs with the shortcut function so here we see text editor calculator File Explorer or you can run a specific program just go ahead and browse through your computer and select it so let's say I want to assign Photoshop to my f1 key I could do that you got some program arguments which are optional lighting effects as well click OK and there you go moving on to the DPI now it does say in the muses manual that this function is coming soon or coming later on and as you can see here if you try setting a DPI your DPI to a certain value doesn't work nothing's working so I think this is going to come in the future Corsair is probably going to work work out this in the future patch hopefully but you can see here just kind of take a look you can have a sniper option while pressed or toggle it on and off you can switch to the next dpi stage in your performance settings I can't really show this off right now like I said they're probably gonna release this in the future patch and next up on the list you can assign a timer to any given key if you want to have a timer show up on screen and count down and alert you when it reaches zero so that I don't know if your in game and time is a huge factor you might want some timers on screen so that you know when to execute your next attack for example so I'm just going to do a short timer right here you can type in 5 seconds or however many minutes and seconds you want you can have it play a sound when the timer reaches zero to alert you that your time has run out and you can actually have it play a certain number of times almost like a snooze between a number of seconds however many times you want it to repeat as well as ramped up the volume you can assign a lighting effect when it reaches 0 as well as execute another action that you've defined previously all from within this actions editor moving out of the mouse you can choose to have a certain key act as a mouse function as a mouse click a right-click the middle click go forward back all this different stuff you can have even scroll while pressed or not lighting effects good stuff and last but not least you can assign media controls to pretty much any key on the board play play pause stop previous track all that jazz is all right here alright so once you've assigned a number of different actions to various keys there is a way to quickly apply those predefined actions by going to your actions list down here and hearings up a little window of all the actions that you've created now you can just literally drag and drop to any key that you want and it will assign that particular action to that key so it's very handy if you want a more comprehensive look at all of your actions you can go up here to the actions tab and here we can see the entire list of everything that you've created and you can even organize it and view it by by action type so if you want to look at all your keystrokes that you've made or all of your mouse functions you can also show all of course and that's that's really handy to have now really quickly I did want to head over to the performance tab and here you've got some options for your Windows lock button on your keyboard so by default it disables your Windows key but you can uncheck that if you want to or you can also have it disabled alt f4 and alt tab as well if you wanted to assign a completely different function a customized function to that key you could uncheck all of them and it won't perform any of these functions there's also a greyed out section here for your polling rate but I think obviously you can just change the polling rate with the switch on the back of your keyboard if you're so inclined the most notable and prominent feature on this keyboard is undoubtedly its led functionality and all the different lighting effects that you can do on this keyboard so with that said I'm going to select my battlefield 4 profile and I'm going to select my default mode and we're going to go over to the lighting tab and once again you have your k70 keyboard layout but now all the keys are red and the keys will light up whatever color is assigned to them so by default the software assigned all my background lighting to be red and there are three different types of lighting within the software there's background lighting there's foreground lighting and type lighting so first I'm going to talk about background lighting which is exactly what it sounds like it's the default or background color of all the keys on your board and you can basically choose up to sixteen point eight million different colors to your liking so if you want to change the background color you can select all and that highlights all the keys on the board and you can right-click one of the color boxes below which will automatically bring up this color selector window you've got a bunch of basic colors that are predefined that you can choose from you've got a hue or a gradient box where you can get more specific or even get really specific and enter values for your hue saturation RGB values and you can even punch in your 6-digit HTML hex code if you if you're so inclined if you want to save a particular particular color let's say you like this shade of blue you can right-click this color swatch and drag it over to the custom color section drop it in there and you've added that color too to your to your custom colors press ok and boom it automatically updates all the keys are now set to that particular color and you have a new background color now and you can also adjust the brightness here which does the same thing as the brightness button brightness adjustment button as well I'm going to leave it at 100 so you guys can see it a little bit better now you'll probably notice that the WASD and arrow keys are lit up in a slightly different color and that's because these specific keys are arranged into groups that have been predefined by the software but you can create new groups and you can edit them you can even delete or edit these ones that are already here and assign them new lighting functions and that type of lighting is called foreground lighting which obviously is going to be different than your background lighting so I'm going to get into groups right now and I'm going to show you how to make a new group on your keyboard so you can right click up in this general area and click new group and let's call this one numbers okay there you go and now you have a new group called numbers but we haven't yet assigned any keys to that group so we can do that right now you can either hold ctrl and select all of them individually like so or you can just click and drag and from there you can also control click additional ones that you want to select or deselect like that and once you've selected a number of keys that you wish to include you can right click go to add to group and you can select that group that you just created or you can go to new group altogether and just create a new group from there so for now we're going to go to numbers and voila when you click numbers now it highlights all of the keys that are in that group and now you can assign some foreground lighting to this group so you want to go right click and assign new lighting this is where it gets good guys trust me alright so for this lighting effect we'll call it let's call it solid solid yellow so you've got four basic LED functions here on the left solid gradient ripple and wave I'm going to start with solid for now I'm going to right click in this color graph and select add and it puts up a couple markers here I'm going to right-click within this range and I'm going to select edit and that lets me select a color of my choosing I'm going to go with yellow since I named this function solid yellow I'm going to select okay it has taken effect here and basically you're in a bit of a graph here so you've got a y-axis representing the intensity of the LED of this particular function and you've got an x-axis representing the duration or how long this LED lasts or how long it lights up and you can choose the specific value of each of these tickers by selecting the end point which I think by default is set to 10 seconds so at 10 seconds that basically means that this last ticker right here on the x-axis represents 10 seconds so that means at halfway it would be 5 seconds and this would be 1 second alright so if you wanted the LED function if you wanted the key to light up for one second you would do something like this the same thing would occur if you selected the endpoint to be 1 second and you dragged out the graph all the way to the end still get in one second inputting a lower value like 1 into this section however is very useful if you want the LED to last less than one second so here in this configuration I would press the key and it would light up for half of a second and then turn off you've got a flip option here so basically just inverts it whatever it is so in this scenario I would press the key it would wait half of a second and then it would turn yellow and then half a second later it would turn off so hope that makes sense down here you can choose when this when this when this function starts if you want it to start with a mode you can do that so anytime you select your default mode in battlefield 4 this LED function will execute or you can have it execute on key press so I'm going to do key press for now and you can also have you can also select when it ends after a certain number of times or on key press or on release so for now I'm just going to say after one time it's going to end and here you can adjust the brightness from 0 to 10 as well so I'm going to select ok and as you can see the keys turn yellow for half a second when I press them but only in the group that I've assigned it to and notice if I hit anything else in any other group it doesn't work so yay so this is this is working alright so now I'm going to go on to a different different led function let's see what's next here let's go assign new lighting and if you assign a new lighting on to a group of keys that already has a lighting action it's going to overwrite it just like with the actions that I mentioned previously so let's go to gradient gradient let's type in num gradient and same thing here right click to add and that adds one marker you're going to want to add a second one most likely let's make it in totes and you're going to right click the actual marker itself to add a color I'm going to edit let's have the gradient go from red to green a little darker green there all right so this is your gradient looks good and right now you can see once again that this is set to ten seconds so this is a 10-second gradient that might be a little too long for me so I'm going to go something more reasonable like five seconds and I'm going to click OK and now when I select or hit one of these keys it does a gradient from red to green now really quick I did want to mention that the gradient functionality on this keyboard is probably my least favorite out of the four different functions you can choose from when we're talking about lighting here and I think the reason why is because it doesn't really perform the way I expected it to instead of smoothly transitioning from one color that you've defined to the next it kind of just stutters and it jumps around from the next closest color that it can find and it just doesn't look very good in my personal opinion but if you guys have had your own experiences with the k70 RGB let me know what you guys think maybe I just got a dud and it's not performing well but I'm pretty sure this is just how it's going to look for all the retail models that you guys might be seeing in the future now with that said there are a couple more cool features that you can do with gradients that I'd like to show you so in order to edit that lighting effect that I just made or to edit any kind of for ground lighting effect that you might have made you want to select the group that you wish to edit right-click one of the highlighted keys and select edit light and boom you're back into the editor window so from here you can actually right click within the graph and click Add and you can add another marker and you can add another one you can add a bunch of markers if you want and you can make this longer of course to fit them all in there so now it's a 10 second gradient and you can add specific colors more colors to your gradient all right so now we have a four color gradient going on here but there is something else to consider if you for instance wanted to have this gradient repeat 5 times any time you press a key in this group then it's going to go through the motions of red blue yellow green but then when it loops back to red it's going to be a very abrupt change and it's not going to be smooth like the rest of the colors are even though I just got done saying that the transition between these gradient effects isn't really that smooth it's going to be even more abrupt going from green back to red so what you can do here is slide this over I'm going to add another marker and I'm going to right click the red marker and there's an option to clone to other endpoint and as you can see now when it goes to red when it loops back to the beginning it'll be smooth yay and now you're also kind of scrunching things together here right so now it's going to it's going to actually fade through these colors a lot quicker because I added another marker so of course you can just change this to whatever you want 15 seconds for example and now when you click OK okay and there's your gradient and there it goes alright and it's going to repeat 5 times and then it's going to stop beautiful alright so moving on to the next item in the list I believe is ripple so let's create a ripple effect for and I want to do a larger number of keys here so let's create a new group I'm going to select all of these right here these three rows I do these four rows there we go and I'll throw a backspace in there too and we're going to create a new group by once again right clicking add to group now let's do a new group let's call this typing keys click OK boom new group has been created alright so now I'm going to assign a new lighting to this group and I'm going to name this lighting effect ripple and stuff ok select ripple right-click add right-click add and let's select some colors here you've got let's do a kind of a pink color and let's do let's go blue and why don't we why don't we add a couple more in here just just for the hell of it let's do something like this did you do yeah let's do like a teal this is kind of reminds me of like a fountain it reminds me of Kirby's fountain of Dreams now pardon the abrupt jump cut here guys I was explaining what taillights were and I got some of the information wrong so I'm just going to rerecord it but basically the x-axis when you're in the ripple mode as well as the wave mode for that matter no longer represents duration of the effect it actually represents how how many keys your gradient will span so for example in the example I was just showing you guys where I had 4 different colors if I had 4 taillights selected and I had entered that value that would essentially mean that it would go through those 4 colors within 4 keys from the epicenter of the ripple so if I wanted it to span over 10 keys I could do that as well and your gradient is going to be a little bit more spread out velocity affects how fast the ripple shoots out from the center so you can go all the way up to 99 I believe or 100 is the max value that's super fast I'm going to go somewhere in the middle we'll go with 20 and duration lets you define how long you want this ripple to last you can also have it start with a certain mode or onkeypress and you can have it end with these various settings as well we'll leave brightness at 10 click OK and now ripple that's a cool color combination I actually kind of like that color scheme I might use that later so there you go basically any key that you press on here you'll notice the ripple starts from the same spot it doesn't matter if you press Q or if you press the question mark the ripple starts from the center and it goes outward now I've gone in here and made some other adjustments I've changed the velocity to 70 I've created a point 5 delay in between repetitions and I'm going to have it repeat nine times upon keypress so let's see what that looks like boom there you go it's going to go nine times at half second intervals and that's that's just the gist of it there's a lot of things you can do here I'm sure if you guys get your hands on one of these you'll be doing way cooler things that I'm showing you right now all right so next up let's override this lighting effect and assign a wave function it's call it something fun and we're going to add some markers here now the difference between wave and ripple they're actually very similar but the difference is whereas ripple spreads out everywhere wave only goes in one direction unless you tell it otherwise so let's just do a simple wave here and you guys are going to see what I mean in just a second go from red to blue all right press ok and when I type and when I hit a key it's going to do the way from left to right doesn't matter where I hit it's going to go from all the way to the left all the way to the right and it's going to do it in that color gradient that I specified now there's a couple other ways you can do this going to edit for example if you wanted to have it shoot out from both sides you can select the two sides option and you can even select which which degree I would agree you want to shoot out so at 124 degrees press ok press H now you can see they kind of go at a 124 degree angle and they also go both ways so this looks a lot more like a ripple so one more thing let's switch this up a bit here I'm going to go to ten tail lights velocity of 80 and a duration of 0.2 seconds and we're going to repeat this ten times all right sounds good see what happens boom alright so that's a little more seizure inducing than you might like but it is an option it is a possibility it's your life I don't care alright so those are the four led functions that are available to you with for ground lighting so we've covered background lighting we just covered group lighting or foreground lighting and the third type of lighting in this keyboard software is type lighting and that's basically going to apply to every single key on the board no matter what group they're in and it basically assigns them either a gradient a solid or a ripple function so I'm going to show you guys how to add one of those basically you go to your profile of choice make sure it's selected select the profile menu under type lighting if you could select single key it'll bring up a familiar menu that has only gradient as an option everything else is grayed out so you right-click and add a couple points now there's a way to cheat this I suppose if you wanted a solid color you could choose one and just clone it to the other end and it's basically a solid color click OK and now when you press a key it turns that color for the specified duration so I think 10 seconds was in there so it's going to light up 10 seconds and then it's going to go away and of course you can switch that up by going back to the profile menu type lighting single key and let's make this a gradient this time going to blue and in order to see that gradient let's make it a little bit longer like four seconds click OK now you'll see when I press a key it will go through that command and voila so that's one way to do type lighting another way is to do a ripple effect which I find a lot more interesting go to multiple keys this time and now you can see ripple is selected and everything else is grayed out so you want to add a couple points here let's do some color business alright so something like that that all looks good I like a higher velocity let's make it last two seconds I'd say press ok and now when you hit it you get a nice little ripple effect now notice when you assign a ripple in type lighting for example the ripple actually starts from the individual key that you press as opposed to always starting from the middle if you were to assign a ripple to a group for example so that actually is pretty cool as you can see it starts from the key which I actually personally like a lot all right so now keep mind though if you have a group of keys remember I had that those three rows of typing keys as you can see right up here that will still take effect even if you enable type lighting so for example if I hit H it still does that crazy wave effect that I programmed earlier but it also does the ripple effect now you'll notice because when I press H you'll see the ripple actually occur in the keypad it actually extends all the way across the keyboard and that's cool I'm sure if you guys get your hands on one of these things you'll be able to do some way crazier things than what I'm showing in this video and I'd love to see some of that so share your experiences with me in the comments below as well now additionally in this lighting tab you also have a lighting effects list which is very similar to the actions list that I showed you guys earlier it basically lets you apply any of these predefined functions that you've already made to any grouping of keys that you've already made as well so I'm going to select typing keys and I'm going to go to this ripple effect and I'm just going to drag and drop it it's gonna ask me if I want to override the current light settings on this group to which I will reply okay and now you can see when I press it it does that it doesn't do seizure II seizure inducing movements anymore it's it's kind of a nice gentle gentle gentle pattern there so so there you guys go you can also get a more in-depth look just like you have the actions the actions list you also have a lighting list as well where you can organize them by type or you can show all of them and from there you can do the same things as with actions edit delete duplicate or export export I should say I pronounced that funny and that's pretty much it other than that you got a settings tab where you can program your different settings here's a just a general look at your device you can choose which kind of keyboard layout you'd like you can update your firmware from within the software which is really nice all these program functions different media players that it supports there's just a kind of basic settings here that that are nice to have also technical support you can contact Corsair straight from within the OS which is very handy and I think that's about it guys holy crap this has been a long video I'm sure I missed a thing or two here and there let me know the comments below if there's any questions that you have about it but hopefully this will give you guys a better idea of what the software entails and what you're up against if you decide to purchase one of these keyboards in the future I'm going to go have a beer now and probably some scotch alright guys and that is going to wrap up this incredibly long and exhaustive overview and walkthrough of the corsair k70 RGB gaming mechanical keyboard and Cherry MX red switches stay tuned for blue and browns coming soon and let me know what you guys think of this keyboard in the comment section below if this video happened to sway your decision one way or another and if you already happen to own a k70 RGB let me know what you guys think about it so far in the comments below thank you all so much for your feedback and for watching this video I'm Kyle with awesome sales network be sure to subscribe to the channel if you haven't already and I'll see you guys in the next one