Software

The Katana comes with its own lightweight software. All options are distributed across several tabs. The first one has button remapping to mouse, keyboard, media, and macro functions. The second page includes CPI adjustment for up to four color-coded levels, at a range of 50 to 16,000 in increments of 50. Debounce Time denotes click latency and can be adjusted from 0 to 20 ms in increments of 1. On the launch firmware, this slider is not functional. Further options are polling rate (125, 250, 500, or 1000 Hz), lift-off distance (low/high), and the ability to set x and y-sensitivity separately. The third and final page has the macro editor. Lastly, profile management is available, too. When applied, all settings are saved to the on-board memory, so the software does not need to be running (or be installed) all the time. However, I did notice that occasionally, changes to CPI are in fact not applied, which could only be remedied by unplugging and re-plugging the mouse. On my system, the software had a RAM footprint of 20 MB on average, which doesn't change when minimized to the system tray. Upon exiting the application, all processes are terminated, as they should be.

In addition the software customizability, both CPI and polling rate levels can be cycled through by using the two buttons on the bottom of the mouse, in a similar fashion as on VAXEE or Zowie mice.