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Offline FoxWolf1

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Sound-Reactive LEDs
« on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 17:39:24 »
Whatever will they think of next?

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Offline dragonxx21

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #1 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 17:42:40 »
shut up and take my money
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #2 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 18:09:15 »
Quote from: FoxWolf1 on Sat, 14 December 2013, 17:39:24
Whatever will they think of next?

Blood pressure reactive LED?  LED meter based on how full you ate at dinner?

LOL but otherwise that looks like same OEM from Cougar Attack gaming keyboard.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #3 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 18:12:35 »
It's pretty cool... but. i mean.. gimmicky..
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #4 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 18:16:15 »
LEDs that change color based on my APM, similar to the Razer Banshee headset.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #5 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 19:28:54 »
That's like spinner hubcaps on a geo metro... also, I had a seizure watching that.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #6 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:05:53 »
I wouldnt buy it.

Gave me a headache just by looking at the video
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #7 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:07:20 »
Could they have picked a more awful song to demo that :|
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #8 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:38:54 »
Idk why they call it an "equalizer effect," because it just looks like it is reacting to volume and not frequencies XD
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #9 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:43:47 »
Quote from: stancato9 on Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:07:20
Could they have picked a more awful song to demo that :|

stancato's h8n'
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 20:58:17 »
Quote from: dragonxx21 on Sat, 14 December 2013, 17:42:40
shut up and take my money

Are you kidding? It looks headache-inducing, useless, and awful.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #11 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 21:39:48 »
Seizure yet?

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Offline Dongulator

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #12 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 22:21:44 »
It would be cool to show off at a lan party, other then that no use for it.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #13 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 22:23:23 »
I'd buy it to show off to the girls at school.

I buy the pastel keys so that they notice my keyboards

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #14 on: Sat, 14 December 2013, 23:01:18 »
Hey ducky, please do this....
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #15 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 10:40:12 »
Agree that it is more like a VUM than an EQ.  Maybe give it green, yellow and red LEDs, and limit the display orientation to top / bottom. I've actually got a 6 channel (DD 5.1) VUM in my office that I built from three stereo Velleman kits, you can see it on the top of the left rack in this pic of my old office.

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #16 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 11:08:45 »
Quote from: 0100010 on Sun, 15 December 2013, 10:40:12
Agree that it is more like a VUM than an EQ.  Maybe give it green, yellow and red LEDs, and limit the display orientation to top / bottom. I've actually got a 6 channel (DD 5.1) VUM in my office that I built from three stereo Velleman kits, you can see it on the top of the left rack in this pic of my old office.

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what are you doing with all those stuff?  :eek:
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Offline IvanIvanovich

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #17 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 11:13:19 »
Wait for sound reactive on Cherry RGB switch. Then it can not only pulse but change color like lets say cool color for slow, warm color for fast... I was actually joking about such a thing recently.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #18 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 13:25:26 »
That looks horrible. Wouldn't the LEDs go crazy while you were typing from all the noise?
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Offline FoxWolf1

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #19 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 14:01:34 »
Well, you could always use a different backlighting mode if it was getting annoying...

Seems like it's microphone-based, though, and therefore not much use to headphone users. Well...not that it has any practical use in the first place, but you know what I mean.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #20 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 16:23:14 »
Easy to solve... direct line with 3.5 jack skip the microphone.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #21 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 16:48:25 »
Looks good on something like a wall decoration.  Terrible for eyes on a keyboard.  Something to think about: at which point does a keyboard decoration begin to impede function.  Even the Ducky LED modes are mostly gimmicky and will go unused in favor of static LED configurations in the long run.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #22 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 16:54:45 »
Quote from: Photoelectric on Sun, 15 December 2013, 16:48:25
Looks good on something like a wall decoration.  Terrible for eyes on a keyboard.  Something to think about: at which point does a keyboard decoration begin to impede function.  Even the Ducky LED modes are mostly gimmicky and will go unused in favor of static LED configurations in the long run.

True - I have my Ducky LEDs either all on, or all off.  Or sometimes just the main keyboard on and tenkey off if I want to pretend it is TKL.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #23 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 18:34:50 »
I have never really used the modes on my ducky. But it's nice to have to be a show off lol. Maybe the only one that I would actually use is the reactive mode, set to where the leds turn off.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #24 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 18:58:23 »
Quote from: HUNTERANGEL121 on Sun, 15 December 2013, 18:34:50
I have never really used the modes on my ducky. But it's nice to have to be a show off lol. Maybe the only one that I would actually use is the reactive mode, set to where the leds turn off.

I have two Shine version 1 - nor many modes to speak of.

I am curious about whether I will actually use the modes on the Shine 3 I have on order.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #25 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 19:30:14 »
I haven't really used them... Too distracting...
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #26 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 20:18:32 »
I would bring it to a LAN... use it as an edge against competition, with the seizure inducing distraction and all :))
Or... you could hook it up to a USB battery pack and take it to the club, possibly on a thick ass dookie chain kind of Flavor Flav style.
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Offline C5Allroad

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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #27 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 20:55:49 »
This might actually be the sound from the computer. Not the surroundings. Like if I have music playing from itunes.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #28 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 21:04:31 »
I really don't see the point of it.
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #29 on: Sun, 15 December 2013, 21:06:23 »
That's tacky as ****
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Re: Sound-Reactive LEDs
« Reply #30 on: Mon, 16 December 2013, 16:00:53 »
It's like having an alienware just for the leds.... There are various programs for that too.
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