![]() For example, with Logitech you can have a button paste a large block of text, play or pause media that’s currently running, and even mute or unmute your microphone in Ventrilo. ![]() In general, Logitech’s better at general purpose features, while Razer focuses on options a user might like while in-game.There are a few other differences I noticed as well: If I only set up a few keyboard shortcuts on a profile, I didn’t have to worry that a button might be bound to a complex macro from some profile associated with a different application that I’d forgotten about. These were usually more harmless shortcuts like displaying my mouse’s battery level or pressing a number key. With Logitech, if I only set up a Skyrim profile for my keyboard, the mouse would disable the Chrome profile while I was in the game, and use the default shortcuts instead. This could make it very hard to know what a particular button is going to do unless you customize it specifically. Worse yet, if Chrome wasn’t the last application I alt-tabbed to, the mouse might be using an entirely different profile. Accidentally launching the calculator application is not ideal while I’m fighting a dragon. If I only set up a Skyrim profile for my Razer keyboard, and the last program I opened (or alt-tabbed to) was Chrome, my Razer mouse would still have my Chrome shortcuts bound to it. For example, I have a Chrome profile on both the mouse and keyboard that I use for productive things like opening a calculator or entering a block of text for work. ![]() In practice, I found this could cause some problems. If you only set up a Skyrim profile for your keyboard, your mouse will use whatever profile it last auto-detected. Razer, on the other hand, requires you to set up a Skyrim profile for your keyboard and mouse separately. So, say you create a Skyrim profile for your keyboard, your mouse will also have a Skyrim profile, based on a default blank profile, with no customizations until you deliberately change it. When you create a Logitech profile for an application, that profile is used across all your Logitech devices. However, each piece of software handles this a bit differently. Both will automatically switch based on which application is in focus at the time. For example, you can make a button on your mouse open a new tab while you’re in Chrome, or punch some guy in the face while you’re in Mass Effect. Both allow you to set up multiple profiles, as well, so you can customize your buttons on a per-application basis. Logitech and Razer allow you to customize special macro keys so you can quickly perform complicated actions. We’ll explain how each one differs and you can decide for yourself which platform is best for you. Keep in mind as we review that neither way is necessarily wrong. The way they go about each task can be very different, though. Handy if you don’t want to keep setting it up on new machines.īoth apps perform most of the same key functions, including programming buttons on your peripherals, recording macros, customizing the color scheme, and recording usage statistics. The company even has an account system that you can use to log in and sync your profiles between multiple computers. Razer Synapse: Razer’s app, Synapse, looks pretty dang cool.Fortunately, the company spent more time on features than it did on naming its software. Logitech Gaming Software: Logitech’s application is named with all the creativity of an above-average brick.However, they both have very slightly different ways of handling their tasks that leave the choice between them largely up to personal preference. The Contendersīoth Logitech and Razer use a single application to manage all of your peripherals at once. While there’s a lot we could say about specific models and such, today we’re going to talk about something no one really reviews-their software, and how easy it is to customize your gear with macros, profiles, and even lighting. During our testing, we used the Logitech G410 keyboard and G602 mouse, as well as the Razer Blackwidow Chroma Tournament Edition keyboard and Naga Epic Chroma mouse. Instead, we want to know about the capability of the software as a whole. Here’s how they stack up against each other.īoth Logitech and Razer have a wide array of gaming peripherals to choose from, and we’re not going to suggest any particular models in this post. The software they use have some small, but important differences. Whether you’re playing games or getting real work done, they’re both great options. Logitech and Razer both have some pretty awesome gaming peripherals.
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