Opening up SteelSeries’ GG software suite, the home section appears to have become more of a store front page than anything else. It doesn’t serve much of a purpose here.
The second tab is called Moments, this is a piece of game-capture software. We know those of you who capture game footage most likely use a different software suite, such as NVIDIA Shadowplay, AMD Radeon ReLive or OBS, but at least SteelSeries give you another option.
The following tab, Engine, is where you make tweaks and adjustments to your SteelSeries peripherals. They’ll all be listed here, whether they’re connected or not.
Clicking each individual item opens up its respective settings screens. When opening the settings screen, you can see an equalizer, with presets below it, a slider for microphone volume, a "Live Mic Preview" button to allow you to hear what others will hear, Mic Sidetone which turns on a feedback loop so you can hear your own voice pumped into the headset which some users will prefer. There's also a volume limiter to try and keep volume levels in check.
The Settings tab gives you some things to change, such as whether or not the Bluetooth chip should activate when you power the headset on, or what it should do if you make or receive a phonecall through the headset. You can also adjust the brightness of the mic mute LED.
The Apps tab gives us access to a variety of different, well, apps. There’s a whole host of different things included in here, with PrismSync that aligns all of the RGB lighting on your SteelSeries equipment, Reflect which extends your screen onto your new Arena speakers, or many many game integrations that can display information in a variety of ways using your peripherals.
The Giveaways section of the software does exactly what it says on the tin. You enter your email address to receive notifications of new giveaways, or just scroll through the currently active list to see if anything tickles your fancy.
Moving over to Sonar (bear in mind that this is in beta currently), which activates many of the cool features offered by the Nova 7, the first screen offers you a Mixer system, where you can adjust individual aspects of the headset to fine-tune the experience. If you want to hear your team mates more clearly with a reduction in sound from the game, or vice versa, you can sort that out here.
Moving over to the Game tab, you can adjust a separate equalizer for the game sound only, or use presets, with a handy test button in the top-right. Or if you want a simpler approach, across the bottom you can tune Bass, Voice and Treble.
Scrolling down on the same page, this is where you can enable Spatial Audio, which steelseries claim can make you a better player by giving you more awareness of enemies in your games. The difference is massively noticeable in game, with the sliders making measurable adjustments to how the spatial audio feels.
The Chat and Microphone tabs are identical because Sonar allows you to adjust how you sound, as well as adjusting how others sound to you. You can tweak the equalizer to your own liking, maybe to give your voice a bit more gravitas or just to make yourself sound funny.
Finally, if you scroll down on those pages, there's the ClearCast AI Noice Cancellation that removes unwanted background noises, such as dogs barking, children screaming, or even just the noise from other people in the same room if you're at a gaming LAN or similar. There's other software out there that does this already, and does it incredibly well, so they've got their work cut out for them on this one, but it does work quite well.
The second tab is called Moments, this is a piece of game-capture software. We know those of you who capture game footage most likely use a different software suite, such as NVIDIA Shadowplay, AMD Radeon ReLive or OBS, but at least SteelSeries give you another option.
The following tab, Engine, is where you make tweaks and adjustments to your SteelSeries peripherals. They’ll all be listed here, whether they’re connected or not.
Clicking each individual item opens up its respective settings screens. When opening the settings screen, you can see an equalizer, with presets below it, a slider for microphone volume, a "Live Mic Preview" button to allow you to hear what others will hear, Mic Sidetone which turns on a feedback loop so you can hear your own voice pumped into the headset which some users will prefer. There's also a volume limiter to try and keep volume levels in check.
The Settings tab gives you some things to change, such as whether or not the Bluetooth chip should activate when you power the headset on, or what it should do if you make or receive a phonecall through the headset. You can also adjust the brightness of the mic mute LED.
The Apps tab gives us access to a variety of different, well, apps. There’s a whole host of different things included in here, with PrismSync that aligns all of the RGB lighting on your SteelSeries equipment, Reflect which extends your screen onto your new Arena speakers, or many many game integrations that can display information in a variety of ways using your peripherals.
The Giveaways section of the software does exactly what it says on the tin. You enter your email address to receive notifications of new giveaways, or just scroll through the currently active list to see if anything tickles your fancy.
Moving over to Sonar (bear in mind that this is in beta currently), which activates many of the cool features offered by the Nova 7, the first screen offers you a Mixer system, where you can adjust individual aspects of the headset to fine-tune the experience. If you want to hear your team mates more clearly with a reduction in sound from the game, or vice versa, you can sort that out here.
Moving over to the Game tab, you can adjust a separate equalizer for the game sound only, or use presets, with a handy test button in the top-right. Or if you want a simpler approach, across the bottom you can tune Bass, Voice and Treble.
Scrolling down on the same page, this is where you can enable Spatial Audio, which steelseries claim can make you a better player by giving you more awareness of enemies in your games. The difference is massively noticeable in game, with the sliders making measurable adjustments to how the spatial audio feels.
The Chat and Microphone tabs are identical because Sonar allows you to adjust how you sound, as well as adjusting how others sound to you. You can tweak the equalizer to your own liking, maybe to give your voice a bit more gravitas or just to make yourself sound funny.
Finally, if you scroll down on those pages, there's the ClearCast AI Noice Cancellation that removes unwanted background noises, such as dogs barking, children screaming, or even just the noise from other people in the same room if you're at a gaming LAN or similar. There's other software out there that does this already, and does it incredibly well, so they've got their work cut out for them on this one, but it does work quite well.
