Blackwidow Essential and Synapse3: Won't stop breathing

Hello all, I'm looking for some help with my new Blackwidow Essential. I have installed Synapse 3 and set it to "Static" rather than breathe. This was working fine up until yesterday. Now for some reason the keyboard will only do the Breathing effect. Static is selected but it doesn't seem to recognize the input. Restarting helps, but I don't want to have to restart just to get my keyboard working properly each time. I can't figure out when it decides to start breathing again as it is seemingly random. It just gets stuck in breathing mode no matter when settings or profiles i choose. I can turn the lights off, but that defeats the purpose of buying a backlit keyboard.