I see several posts but no answers and they are all locked from comments so I wanted to ask again - the existing posts are not for V4 (most are V2). This is the full (pro?) keyboaard, not the 75% one.
I think the media keys worked before I installed Synapse (meaning default windows software/drivers) - not that I did more than play/pause and adjust volume for test files on the NAS. Anyway, I installed the software and the media keys are -as if they don’t exist-. I find them necessary when a phone call comes in, going to the taskbar to load a playing media app to pause is more than a pain, it’s several rings - or I have the music playing while I pick up the phone, until I can pause “the long way”.
Come on, guys, i have used keyboards since about 2000 that had media keys, although volumne didn’t appear until I think 2010 or just a little later. This includes old “split W” Microsoft, Logitech, Corsair RGB (with the Brown keys) and now the Black WIdow, which I like the feel of and the lighting is better than the dim keys on the Corsair (I often like to do software engineering/self training) with the lights out/lower light, thus an RGB keybaord is great). Since the problem has been around for a few years, is a fix ever going to ship? I’ve never seen the media keys not work until now. This is a new build with the current Win 11 and updates. I’m not a gamer, so the installed software is mostly the usual office + tax, Ricoh (formerly Fujitsu) scanner SW, media playback (VLC, Media Monkey, WinAmp) and disk ripping, A-V, and a few software tools like Visual Studio, Mongo, NodeJS and SQL Server, no games and common utils I’ve used for 15 years or more like 7Zip. Nothing exotic that ever caused problems with other keyboards so let’s leave all that alone. MB is MSI MPG 890 vintage (new, Intel 15th gen CPU).
