[RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT] Rainbow in the dark

Less than one month since our last major patch, we're back with another update. The next patch was only supposed to go out in late-Q1, but ever since the January update, we have had a big influx of support tickets that wrecked our support inboxes with requests asking for a dark theme. So, the Synapse engineering team came in clutch to be the savior of our support teams, shuffled around things around on the to-do list and made an intermediate release.

Here's what you will find in this latest release :

Dark Theme - It's finally here. You can choose the dark theme after installing the latest update from the user menu (gear icon on the top right). Thanks for all the feedback and your patience.

New devices - We've only had a handful of days since the release less than a month ago, so we haven't been able to complete the work on too many devices... but we did managed to squeeze in 2 mice for this intermediate release. Synapse 3 now supports :

- Deathadder Elite (including special editions)
- Mamba Tournament Edition

(The support list Synapse 3 webpage will be updated soon with these two devices. Rest assured, the support for these devices is already LIVE at the time of my post).

Ability to bind Lighting Profiles to Games/Apps - Head over to the "Profiles" tab where you will see an option bind your Chroma studio lighting profiles to specific games and applications to allow auto-switching based on foreground application.

Import/Export of Chroma Studio profiles - Chroma Studio now allows import/export of lighting profiles. A Chroma workshop section to for submission and download of community-generated profiles for Synapse 3 will be added soon. Please do note that Synapse 2 lighting profiles are not compatible with Synapse 3 because of different architecture.

Chroma Studio navigation/UI improvements - Pointing to an LED shows the currently applied effects to that LED. We have also added keyboard/mouse shortcuts for more intuitive navigation (full list of shortcuts can be found in the bottom left of Chroma studio).

Easy macro-binding workflow - Macros can be assigned to a specific profile and key/button with a simple workflow inside Macro module itself now, and doesn't require going to individual device pages and switching to the target profile.

Bug fixes - Last but by no means least, we've fixed over 300 bugs of varying magnitude, including speculative fixes (keyword being speculative) for corner cases where Synapse would sometimes not start-up, crash or behave in weird ways. Credits to all users who reported bugs through the beta feedback section and sent in their logs to help with the investigation.


Also, did I mention it has dark theme now, so you can have your rainbow in the dark?



Cheers!

 

As always, I can't talk about possibility or schedule of support for specific legacy devices. This is because Synapse 3 has a different architecture and all legacy devices require brand new drivers. They weren't designed for Synapse 3 and we can't guarantee every legacy device would work flawlessly with Synapse 3's architecture/feature-set.

Preview of next patch, hopefully in early Q2 (no promises on dates yet) :

• Focus on performance improvements - start-up speed, UI navigation speed and resource usage.
• Yet more devices, including more mice that were originally planned for the late-Q1 patch.
• Ability to use a single keybind to switch both the lighting profile and device profile.
• Classified features which were planned for the late-Q1 patch and didn't make it in this release.

We're also constantly fixing bugs and making improvements to the features based on the community's inputs, so please do continue to share your feedback with us (regarding both bugs and features) using the Beta feedback icon in Synapse 3 dashboard. And while I can't guarantee if and when we can implement every feature request, we read and try to fulfill all requests to the best of our abilities (My current to-do shortlist is at 84 items and growing).

Cheers!

 

Hello. This is the expected behavior. The profile structure is different in Synapse 3 (as compared to Synapse 2).

Device profiles and Chroma Studio lighting profiles are completely independent. This is because Chroma Studio contains the configuration for all Chroma devices inside a single profile. This means that a Chroma Studio profile can't logically be stored as a part of any single device profile.

After today's update, users already have the option to either manually switch lighting profile (using keybinds) or automatically switch lighting profiles (based on games/apps). If there are any specific use-cases that these options don't address, do let us know and we'll see how we can address them.