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Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard 2 Compact TKL (65%)

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The hotly anticipated Glorious Modular Mechanical Keyboard gets an update, and we check out both the 65% and 96% versions today. This review goes over the smaller of the two variants, available in three colors and multiple layouts, as well as a barebones kit or pre-built edition. There are plenty of updates inside and out to make for a portable keyboard at an excellent price.

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I wish one of the "not huge" keyboard manufacturers had software with as fine grain control over lighting as Corsair iCue, e.g. I can make custom lighting animations by taking the RGB wave, for example, and change which colors the wave uses and the duration of those colors via a timeline. Are there any other keyboards with software like that that are NOT corsair or Razer. I use JackNet to control my PC's lighting, which basically allows you to control all RGB connected to your motherboard's addressable header, regardless of manufacturer using the iCue software, so I control Montech fans with iCue, generic RGB strips with iCue, my G.Skill RAM with iCue... I just don't like how heavy on resources iCue is and I don't like corsair, haha, it'd be cool if any keyboard could be controlled in a similar manner. Just want a white, mechanical RGB keyboard with click switches that isn't $250 that is TKL or smaller, but still has arrow keys, that has software with fine grain control of lighting including animations, and isn't Corsair or Razer or a big name like that.
 

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I wish one of the "not huge" keyboard manufacturers had software with as fine grain control over lighting as Corsair iCue, e.g. I can make custom lighting animations by taking the RGB wave, for example, and change which colors the wave uses and the duration of those colors via a timeline. Are there any other keyboards with software like that that are NOT corsair or Razer. I use JackNet to control my PC's lighting, which basically allows you to control all RGB connected to your motherboard's addressable header, regardless of manufacturer using the iCue software, so I control Montech fans with iCue, generic RGB strips with iCue, my G.Skill RAM with iCue... I just don't like how heavy on resources iCue is and I don't like corsair, haha, it'd be cool if any keyboard could be controlled in a similar manner. Just want a white, mechanical RGB keyboard with click switches that isn't $250 that is TKL or smaller, but still has arrow keys, that has software with fine grain control of lighting including animations, and isn't Corsair or Razer or a big name like that.
 
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