SickRGB 1.2.0
New
Directional Sound. Shows which side a sound came from, rather than what it was. Games
pan positional audio between the left and right channels, so comparing them reads out
direction, and this puts that on your lights: a bright spot on the left of the keyboard
means something happened on your left.
This exists as an accessibility feature. If placing sound by ear is difficult, through
single-sided hearing loss or otherwise, it gives you the same information by eye. Colour
carries loudness on a deliberately restrained ramp, so position stays the message rather
than competing with it.
It needs a device with at least four lights to point with. Anything smaller cannot describe
a direction, so those devices show how loud the sound was instead.
Device report, under Settings > Debug. Collects what a keyboard or mouse says about
itself: which interface carries its lighting, the shape of its reports, what it answers when
asked, and what it sends while you use it. That is what someone needs in order to add
support for hardware that does not work yet.
Building the report only reads from your devices; nothing is written to any of them. It can
also listen to what a device sends while in use, which is a separate, explicit step, because
on a keyboard that can include what you type. It says so where you switch it on, and nothing
is saved anywhere unless you save it.
Changed
- Audio capture keeps the left and right channels separate instead of mixing to mono.
Averaging destroys precisely the information direction depends on. The music visualiser
averages them back together when it reads, so nothing changed for it. - The Sound settings panel now only shows the frequency controls for the visualiser, since
they mean nothing for a directional readout.
Install
Download SickRGB.exe below and run it. One file, .NET runtime bundled, no installer and no
administrator rights.
Using a Turtle Beach or ROCCAT keyboard? Close its own software first, or it will fight for
control of the lighting.
Licence
From this release, SickRGB is under
PolyForm Noncommercial 1.0.0:
free for any noncommercial purpose, not for selling. Earlier releases remain under the terms
they were published with.