Roccat Valo Keyboard Review

Configuring the Valo

Macro programming isn’t the easiest thing in the world. Thankfully, the Roccart software makes it a little less painful due to a friendly interface. You can save macros in five different profiles, and each one has four other sub-profiles called layers, so the user can have 20 different profiles on each of the 41 macro keys. It’s a lot, believe us – more than the casual gamer will ever need, but certainly a dream come true for those who like to have absolute control at their fingertips. In games like World of Warcraft (MMORPG) and Starcraft (RTS), the user can record complex commands that take time (attack combos, unit building, etc.) and are usually repeated over and over during a match. The Valo comes with an internal memory of 2 MB to store the macros.

Figure 10: Macro recording

The software also allows the user to control the information shown on the LCD display and the brightness of the illuminated keys.

Figure 11: Illumination control