Razer Synapse is a love or hate affair with some people, though, as it stands it is arguably the industry leading unified software driver out there. It is a chore to have to download, sign-up/sign-in download and install the software update for your device, but then, you are granted with a sleek UI that is easy to understand and easy to navigate. You can save your personal customisations that can be stored and shared via a cloud service, or if you wish you can view the heatmap of your previous gaming session. Some would argue for Corsair's CUE software, especially considering its more technical aspects, as well as touting various other key-stroke recording functions not found in Synapse, but then, you sacrifice the

The Naga Hex V2 has 14 fully programmable buttons to which each you can assign a macro. The macro recorder within Synapse is smooth, powerful and easy to record and edit any keystrokes you desire including any action taken using the mouse buttons. There is also a surface calibration function as well as an adjustable lift-off-distance.








There are various lighting effects for the Naga Hex V2, including spectrum cycle, breathing, reactive and static. By default each of the three lighting zones are linked (wheel, buttons, logo), but you can unlink them and set an individual lighting effect in each different lighting zone. You can also synchronise the lighting effect with any other Chroma enabled peripheral you have. The lighting, as expected is bright (brighter than expected considering by default it is set to Normal (60% brightness). The colour rendering is great, very closely displays the expected hue, including white which only just has a touch of blue to it, giving it a slightly frozen white colour.