Ducky Channel One X Inductive Keyboard Review

Software

Software

We don’t know many companies that have a browser based software system. The Ducky one is great if you’ve not got too much privacy and security stuff in your browser. My version of Firefox doesn’t work with this at all, because the “Ducky.io wants to connect to your HID device” window never appears. All these screengrabs are taken on my much less secure Google Chrome browser that allows the connection. Keys are all well labelled, and down the bottom you have a massive selection of options you can just drag and drop, should you not want to get into macro editing.

If you press Fn+B (b for battery) the number keys light up showing you what percentage of battery is available, from 1 indicating 10% up to 0 for 100%. Useful. You also get a whole second layer to customise as you wish. It’s a very useful feature to have.

Lighting is available in multiple styles and modes, on a per key basis. We wish the rainbow mode had a zero speed, so we could have a rainbow without it scrolling across our keyboard and without us having to manually create one. At least with this being browser based adding things should be easy. More on that in our conclusion.

Key actuation sensitivity is the hallmark of the induction switches. Thankfully this is changeable on a per key basis too. The software handily indicates what setting you have for each key. For demonstration purposes this is the whole One X set as low as they can go.

With multipoint switches you can really get into the weeds if you want, setting start and end points and actions that can be taken. Like the key settings pages we saw above, Ducky provide you with loads of preset options so you can be up and running in moments.