You can use this keyboard’s software as a web-based or downloadable client, available on Akko’s download page.
While the software is reasonably well-organized, it’s fairly complex and may be somewhat confusing for beginners at first. There’s also some discrepancy in feature parity between the web-based and downloadable client, with some features, such as a ‘simulation’ feature which shows a real-time representation of keypresses on the Main tab, only available in the downloadable client version.
The main tab also has a manual calibration feature to properly calibrate the full travel distance of the magnetic switches. Akko recommends you run a full calibration when you first unbox your keyboard (and after resets or updates). You need to slowly press and bottom out each key on the keyboard during this process. Unfortunately, there isn’t any visual feedback during the calibration process to confirm each keypress is properly calibrated.
In addition to the adjustable actuation point settings common on most Hall effect gaming keyboards, this keyboard also supports more advanced features, detailed below:
Rapid Trigger: This setting can dynamically adjust your switches’ actuation and reset points based on distance rather than being fixed at a specific point along the keystroke. This allows for faster follow-up inputs, which can be especially beneficial in scenarios like counter-strafing in FPS games.
SOCD: Allows you to monitor a pair of keys to activate based on custom trigger parameters. The default mode only registers input from the latest activated key, but there are additional parameters below:
DKS (dynamic keystroke): Allows you to map up to four different actions to a single key based on actuation distance.
Mod Tap: Allows you to map two actions to a single key based on actuation distance: a held key for the first action and a tap for the second.
Toggle Key (TGL): Allows you to set a key to act as a toggle switch to register either a continuous input or repeated inputs at high frequency (much like a turbo button with some gamepads).
Disclaimer: Some settings, such as SOCD and TGL, may not be allowed in some competitive games.
