Полезные приложения для геймеров
Нет. Если вы не хотите использовать какое-либо приложение, например Moments, выключите его в настройках. Если его выключить, оно не будет работать в фоновом режиме и никак не будет влиять на производительность компьютерной системы.
То же самое относится к утилите SteelSeries Engine. Если к компьютерной системе не подключено никакое устройство SteelSeries, утилита Engine на платформе GG не будет работать в фоновом режиме.
Отключить утилиту Moments можно одним из двух способов:
1. Щелкните по выпадающему меню над галереей Moments и отключите опцию [Gameplay Capture] («Запись геймплея»).
2. Перейдите в раздел Settings -> Capture and Sound («Настройки» -> «Видеозапись и звук») и отключите опцию [Allow Moments to capture while gaming] («Разрешить видеозапись во время игры»).
What is SteelSeries GG?
Almost all gaming peripherals manufacturers have their own software bundles nowadays, and it can be hard to see whether or not a certain piece of software is worth it. In this article, we’ll go over SteelSeries’ GG software and its features so that you can see how it can be beneficial to your gaming experience and/or workflow.
SteelSeries’ GG is a software bundle that houses different components, and in this article we’ll go over the main components and features of SteelSeries GG.
Agnostic Software
Something that’s quite unique when it comes to these gaming software packets is that large parts of SteelSeries’ GG software are agnostic. This means that you don’t even need a SteelSeries peripheral in order for it to work. Sonar, for example, will work with any gaming headset. This means that, if you like the features that you’re about to read about in this article, you can just download the software and get to using it without having to go out and buy SteelSeries gear.
What is SteelSeries Sonar?
SteelSeries Sonar is the brand’s audio software suite. It comes with a large amount of tweakable parameters so that you can get the audio experience that your game/situation requires.
For starters, Sonar gives you the ability to mix and master your game, chat, and microphone levels separately. This is all handled by easy-to-use sliders that allow you to adjust your audio devices in a flash. This is handy for obvious reasons: sometimes your friends might be a bit too loud, for example, and you might want to turn them down when you’re really focusing on the game. On the other hand, you might want to lower the game volume a bit and raise your teammates’ chat volume when you’re just playing a casual game and hanging out. Sonar allows you to easily do this.
Sonar also offers the ability to tweak the sound profiles coming out of the different channels. You can not only tweak the sound of your game audio, but also the sound of your chat, as well as customize the parameters of your microphone. In short, Sonar not only lets you tweak the sound of your main audio source (game, stream, …) but also the sound of your chat and microphone.
Game Sound
The possibilities are quite large, and SteelSeries Sonar offers a wide range of presets with pre-configured equalizer setups for games such as CS:GO, Fortnite, Apex Legends, VALORANT, Overwatch 2, and so on. In addition to that, there’s also a large selection of media equalizers to choose from. As an example, you have the option to go for Movie: Clear Dialogs or Movie: Immersion, and there’s a variety of music presets to match the genre you’re listening to or your personal preferences.
There are also pro player presets, with a preset made by VALORANT pro babybay, and one made by CS:GO professional Twistzz, for example. This is always nice to see, as it allows you to hear the game through the ears of that specific game’s highest tier players, so hopefully SteelSeries has more of these player presets planned for the future.
These presets are merely a starting point, however. Sonar allows you to further customize the equalizer profiles so that it matches your preferences exactly. Additionally, you can turn on Spatial Audio to get that immersive virtual surround sound. This is not something that we recommend for competitive gaming (all virtual surround options can change the positional audio of a game slightly; that’s not something you want if you’re a competitive gamer) but it is a nice option to have for when you’re viewing content or relaxing in a story-driven game.
You can also adjust the gain of your audio and turn on Smart Volume, which is basically a compressor that keeps the volume within certain ranges so that explosion aren’t insufferably loud while conversations are too quiet.
In short: Sonar allows you to select different sound profiles to match your specific situation, be that listening to your favorite EDM track or sweating it out in your favorite competitive game.
Chat Sound
Just as with your game audio, you can also tweak the chat audio. Contrary to setting up game-specific audio profiles, tweaking the chat sound will not give you any competitive advantages, but it can be a tremendous quality of life booster. We all have that one friend with a subar mic that puts out a nasal, high-pitched tone, and Sonar allows you to tweak that to some extent. We say ‘to some extent’ because a lot will obviously depend on the quality of the mic that your mates are using (you can’t make a $5 integrated mic sound like a streaming-grade external microphone, for example) but it’s a handy feature to make long gaming sessions less grating.
In addition to offering multiple tweakable EQ profiles (such as Less Nasal, Clarity, Deep Voice, and so on) Sonar also comes with ClearCast AI Noise Cancellation. This AI solution removes any non-vocal sounds from the mix so that you can focus on the game without hearing your friend’s dog barking in the background, for example. Smart Sound is also available in the Chat and Microphone tabs, but here it’s renamed to Smart Voice. Enabling this will ensure that chat levels stay within certain parameters, so that your screaming teammate won’t cause any jumpscares, to give a quick example.
Anyone who games with people who use an open mic will know why the ability to tweak your chat sounds and remove background noises can come in incredibly handy.
Microphone
Every voice is different, and in order to make your voice sound as clear and natural as it can be, it’s handy to have a microphone EQ. Someone with a very deep voice will want different microphone settings compared to someone with a high pitched voice, for example. Sonar allows you to choose from a number of presets including Clarity High Pitch, Clarity Low Pitch, Balanced, and so on. Obviously you can also create a completely customized EQ pattern.
ClearCast’s AI Noise Cancellation not only works for your teammates (as explained in the previous section) but also for your microphone. Turning it on will have an AI eliminate background noises, and if that doesn’t work to your satisfaction there’s also a noise reduction section and a noise gate section (which will cut off your mic when it’s below a certain volume). Do note that these features are not enabled if you’re using ClearCast AI Noise Cancellation since that will handle these things automatically.
Finally, Smart Voice is also available for your microphone. Enabling this will ensure that your voice never gets overly loud or quiet.
The ability to tweak the way your own voice sounds isn’t something that will give you any immediate benefits, but your teammates, coworkers, and friends will greatly appreciate it if you find a profile that matches your voice.
Why Should You Use SteelSeries Sonar?
It’s important to understand that audio is extremely vital in competitive games. In some gaming communities it’s a bit of a meme to label obvious cheaters as people who ‘just have a good gaming headset’ but as with many jokes there’s an element of truth to it: having a good audio solution can feel like cheating.
Whether you’re playing CS:GO, where hearing the exact position of that accidental enemy footstep in a 1v1 clutch scenario can make or break a round (or match) or you’re playing something a lot more hectic like Overwatch 2, where hearing an enemy DPS hero sneaking up behind your team can mean the difference between landing that fight-winning sleep dart or getting wiped out by an enemy ultimate: audio is an element to gaming that you should not underestimate.
Knowing this, it’s not hard to see where the value of SteelSeries Sonar lies. Having the ability to tweak your audio so that it matches your specific game can literally be the difference maker in some matches. Having the right audio parameters means that you might hear a crucial reloading sound in a hectic fight that you otherwise wouldn’t have heard, and that’s just one example of how incredibly important audio is in competitive gaming.
Of course a good audio engine with great positional audio isn’t something that’s specific to SteelSeries, but Sonar is without a doubt one of the most expansive and easy to use audio software suites we’ve seen so far, and the fact that it comes packed with so many QoL features that can make your and your teammates’ lives easier is the cherry on top. We strongly recommend you to give SteelSeries Sonar a try, as you don’t need a SteelSeries headset in order to use it and the software is free to download.
What is SteelSeries Moments?
SteelSeries Moments is the brand’s gameplay/highlight capturing tool, and it’s also included in SteelSeries GG. Its functionality is similar to NVIDIA Shadowplay and, to a lesser extent, OBS and the likes. Moments allows you to record and share gameplay clips by means of a recording program that’s always running (if you have it turned on, that is) in the background with minimal performance impact.
Moments allows you to press a hotkey to capture gameplay moments even after they’ve happened so that you’re not using up large amounts of disk space by recording every single second of gameplay. This method also allows for easier filing and storing of specific gameplay clips since you don’t have to wade through hours of gameplay videos to find one specific clutch or special moment.
How does SteelSeries Moments Work?
The moment you enable Moments, the software is constantly running in the background. It uses a section of your GPU that’s used for video encoding, so it doesn’t impact your performance or gameplay in a noticeable way. Once you press your chosen hotkey combination, the software will save a clip of your gameplay. You can choose if those clips should include microphone inputs and so on in the settings.
Moments assigns a higher bitrate to clips where there’s a lot of action happening on the screen and a lower bitrate to clips where there’s less going on so that recorded clips don’t take up too much space and are always clear and crisp. There is also a feature that allows it to automatically save certain highlights (kills, assists, …) without you having to press the hotkey combination, but that functionality only works in certain games.
Recorded clips get saved to an in-app gallery with easy file management tools such as the ability to tag, rename, export, and favorite clips. It’s also possible to make rudimentary edits to recorded clips within SteelSeries’ GG software.
Clips can easily be uploaded to YouTube, Gfycat, Twitter, Discord, Reddit, and Facebook.
Why Should You Use SteelSeries Moments?
SteelSeries moments perhaps doesn’t have as many immediately tangible gameplay benefits like Sonar does, but if you’re someone who likes to share gameplay clips it’s one of the best options out there. The way Moments handles and stores files is a big upgrade from most similar products, and features like the autorecording of relevant gameplay moments (in compatible games) are great for people who like to share highlight reels, or for players who want to get their gameplay reviewed by teammates or coaches.
SteelSeries Moments is one of the most user-friendly recording programs out there, so if you’re someone who likes to share funny fails or clutch kills it can be a good idea to check this software out.
What is SteelSeries Engine?
SteelSeries Engine is SteelSeries’ gear configuration tool. This section of SteelSeries GG lists your SteelSeries products and allows you to configure them to your liking. In Engine, you can change the RGB, record macros, change the DPI of your mouse, … Obviously this will only work with SteelSeries devices.
SteelSeries Engine Apps
Aside from housing the ‘regular configuration options’ for your SteelSeries gear, Engine also has an ‘apps’ section that houses applications that interact with your SteelSeries peripherals. You can set up your keyboard to flash when someone joins your Discord server with the Discord app, for example. Or you can have your mouse’s RGB lighting flash upon getting a headshot in CS:GO, or have your your lighting turn off when you’re dead in League of Legends, or … There’s a wide variety of apps out there for SteelSeries Engine, and the catalogue is ever-expanding.
SteelSeries GG Giveaways
The giveaways tab of SteelSeries GG houses a bunch of giveaways, ranging from free small ingame content packs to beta access keys, full games, and more. It can pay off to check out the Giveaways tab every once in a while to see if there are any extra goodies available for your favorite games, but otherwise this is a completely optional tab that you can choose to completely ignore.
Is SteelSeries GG Worth It?
Whether or not SteelSeries GG is worth it for you personally will -obviously- depend on your personal preferences, but we really like it so far. Moments is quickly becoming our favorite way to capture gameplay clips and share them with our friends, and Sonar is an extremely expansive and easy to use audio software kit that can definitely improve your gameplay if you take a bit of time out of your day to set it up (or take a bit less time out of your day and just choose one of the preconfigured EQ settings) and then we didn’t even mention the QoL improvements that it can bring to the table, such as tuning out annoying background noises at your friend’s house.
Given the fact that it’s free and that components like Sonar are agnostic (meaning you don’t need SteelSeries gear to use them) we definitely encourage you to check it out for yourself. SteelSeries GG is still in beta, but it’s already one of the best ‘gaming software hubs’ out there if you ask us.
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SteelSeries Sonar Review
SteelSeries Sonar is a free audio program for PC that lets you make real-time adjustments to sound being played or sound being recorded.
If you don't like the way your headphones or headset sounds, programs like this and Equalizer APO are a great place to start before you go out and buy a different pair. If you want to boost or cut different frequencies to help you in FPS games or to make your games or music more immersive, you're in the right place.
The same goes for your microphone. You can drastically change the sound of your standalone mic or even salvage your headset mic and make it actually listenable.
Pros and Cons Summary
The software is free.
You don't need proprietary hardware. It works with pretty much any headset and mic.
The UI, while it definitely can use tweaks, is good overall and it feels way better to use than Equalizer APO.
What I don't like:
The way sound sources are accessed in other software like Audacity and OBS. I demonstrate this in the video review, but it’s a bit of a hassle at first.
Some of the UI elements are small and easy to miss or get mixed up with each other.
A SteelSeries account is required and you must be signed in to use Sonar.
Setting up Sonar
To use Sonar, first you have to download it from SteelSeries website. It doesn't cost money, but there are a couple catches.
First off, you have to create an account and be signed in. After you sign in, I'm not sure how long you can use the software without being connected to the internet, but it would NOT let me sign in without an internet connection.
Secondly, this program does collect data on you. How much? Hard to say. They mention it on their website's privacy policy, but they don't go into too many specifics.
Anyway, let's get into what this program actually does for your audio. There are 4 tabs at the top: Mixer, Game, Chat, and Microphone.
Mixer
In the Mixer tab, you can control the master volume, game volume, chat volume, and microphone volume.
Master volume adjusts the game and chat at the same time so it's pretty self-explanatory.
Before you can use the game/chat mixer, you have to set Sonar to your default audio device in Windows settings. You don't have to fumble around for it on your OS. Just click the box at the top and Sonar will do it for you. Specifically, it will make "SteelSeries Sonar Gaming" your default source if you click the speaker on the bottom right of the taskbar.
Here's how the game/chat mixer works. In the playback tab, choose whatever device you're listening to and set that same device to receive both game and chat audio.
Most of your desktop audio is going to default to "game". For example, if you're playing Warzone or any other game, the audio meter will show in the game column.
You can then set specific sources like Discord to “chat”. Most programs that you'd want to do this to will give you an option of what playback device you want, but if not you can do it manually.
For example, in Windows Sound settings, I can set VLC Player or Firefox to have their audio play in SteelSeries Chat. I'll get to why you might want to do that in a minute.
Back in Sonar, you can raise or lower the volume of game or chat independently. Or you can drag the ChatMix slider to adjust both at the same time to make one or the other louder so you can get that perfect volume so Discord and the game you're playing don't overpower each other.
Using the slider is useful because if you're recording your audio, it won't change how loud either of the sound sources are to OBS, but it will in your own headset. Perhaps you want your viewers to hear the game louder than the voice call you're in, but you want your own mix to be intact. That's how you'd do it.
You can do other cool things with this too. Let's say you're streaming on Twitch and you're not actually talking with anyone on a voice call. You can listen to copyrighted music all you want without getting a DMCA.
You can set your web browser or another standalone program playing music to chat. In OBS, you can set your desktop audio to record game audio and not chat. Now you can listen to your music as loud as you want and switch up the volume as much as you want without Twitch picking up a thing.
The last column is microphone. And it's obvious, select whatever mic you want to alter the sound of through Sonar and that's that.
Game Tab
The game tab where you'll be altering the primary audio source you'll be listening to.
There's a parametric equalizer, a spatial audio tuner, a gain slider which can further boost volume levels, and a "smart volume" slider which I'm pretty sure is just a compressor. It makes sounds over a certain threshold softer and softer ones louder to keep the levels more even.
What most people are probably downloading this software for is the equalizer. You get one for voice chat and your microphone too, but this is the one you'll be using for most media you play back like games, music, and movies.
Changing the EQ curve to help my performance in Warzone.
Sonar includes a parametric equalizer. Instead of straight bars like you get in Equalizer APO or even the other tabs in the software, this lets you visualize your changes in more of a curve.
To start, you get 5 different points to adjust and you can add up to 5 more making this up to a 10-band EQ. If you want to make a certain frequency louder or quieter, you can drag the points up and down. There are more advanced features like low-cut filters as well.
There are many presets to choose from or you can make your own from scratch.
The user interface is very intuitive. You know where the sub-bass all the way up to the highs are. And if you're really new to EQ and don't know anything about frequencies, there's basic sliders like bass, voice, and treble.
With each point that you can raise or lower, you can change the Q value which affects how much the neighboring frequencies are affected.
This Equalizer overall gets a 10/10 from me out of all the ones I've used.
Spatial Audio
Like every other virtual surround sound gimmick out there, SteelSeries doesn't tell you exactly what they're doing here.
If they told you they were adding a reverb filter and some hidden EQ adjustments, the enigma of surround sound would be ruined. It's useless for competitive play, but it can be really cool in single player games.
Whatever the filter they're using, it does make audio sound like it's coming from all around you. It's fun that you can adjust the sliders to change the distance of the virtual soundstage. Still, if you really need precise info on where specific sounds were coming from, this needs to stay off.
Microphone Tab
Let's switch over to the microphone tab. I'm going to skip chat for a second; it will make sense once I get to it.
There's a more traditional 10-band EQ here. There's are two different noise reduction filters. You can use the basic options to manually alter the background, impact noise reduction, and noise gate.
Background targets consistent ambient noises like fans and impact is for intermittent sounds like keyboard typing. The noise gate will silence your mic unless it detects a certain volume input.
Alternatively, you can use the Clearcast AI Noise Cancellation. And it combines all of those into one.
I like Clearcast as it's just one slider and it's barely warps your primary audio at all at lower levels. It does an amazing job of removing keyboard typing and other sounds. Clearcast is better than using any or all 3 of the other sliders together. It’s even better than Krisp and RTX Voice.
A big reason this software is so helpful is it lets you apply all of these adjustments live and use that same audio to talk to others in Discord or other programs or record it for personal use like content creation. For the latter, this means you don't have to edit the audio tediously in post production.
To test all of your adjustments, you can take a sample recording with the button at the top. Then, you can play it back continuously and keep tweaking it to hear your changes as you make them. Check out the video review at the top to see a live demo of the mic EQ and filters.
Chat Tab
Getting back to the chat tab, it has pretty much the same interface as the mic tab, except this is going to affect audio going to “chat”. So you can EQ your background music separately from your game if you separated them out like that. Probably what the devs had in mind was the ability to EQ the person's mic that you're listening to.
If your friend’s mic has a lot of background noise, sounds tinny, or just otherwise isn’t great, you can make some tweaks to what you hear yourself without them having to do anything or even knowing you're doing it.
Verdict
The Nova Pro with the GameDAC Gen 2 takes extra advantage of Sonar’s game/chat mixer.
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