Macros for the Turtle Beach KONE XP Air · without Swarm
Meet MacroForge. A 100 ms repeat that stays 100 ms.
Swarm II drops the pause at the end of a macro and sends half of each macro without checking it arrived. MacroForge rewrites the macro side of the KONE XP Air: exact timing, every packet acknowledged, both layers (primary and Easy-Shift) editable in one click, profiles that follow your games, and a test zone to measure what your mouse really sends.
Latest release v0.1.2
Signature · timing
A rapid-fire macro is a press, a short hold, a release, then a pause before the next one. Swarm II encodes each delay on the next event, so the last pause, the one between two repetitions, has nowhere to go and is thrown away. Your 10 clicks per second become 50.
Press 10 ms, release, pause 90 ms… the pause is dropped. The loop runs every ~11 ms instead of 100 ms, and games miss the clicks. Worse: only the headers of a macro are acknowledged, the 42 data blocks leave unchecked, so a macro can arrive half-written.
The pause is kept: a ×20 ms delay at the end of the stream and the remainder on the first event, so 10 + 90 ms is exactly 100 ms. Every packet is acknowledged by the mouse and a failed block is sent again instead of abandoning the macro. Swarm's own bytes stay reproducible: 55 automated tests, including a real macro read from a KONE XP Air.
Buttons · two layers
Each button has two slots, Primary and Easy-Shift (while the Easy-Shift bar is held). Pick a slot, pick a function: mouse, keyboard shortcut, macro, DPI, profiles, Windows and browser shortcuts. It applies at once, and Ctrl+Z undoes it.
The primary left button can never lose its click, whatever happens. Its Easy-Shift slot stays free for your macro.
The button list shows P and ES side by side; the mouse drawing highlights macros and Easy-Shift.
Ctrl+C, Alt+Tab, Win+Shift+S… combos the button table cannot hold are written as a tiny macro in the slot, automatically.
Remove Easy-Shift from every button and a banner warns you, with a one-click fix.
Macros
macro_list.dat library, groups included.
Automatic profiles
List each game under one of the 5 profiles. While it runs, in the foreground or in the background, the mouse uses its profile; when it quits, MacroForge goes back to your default profile. Two games at once: the most recent wins. It starts with Windows and keeps working with the window closed, next to the clock.
Test zone
Fire the macro over the test zone: every click, key and wheel notch Windows receives is timed. Period, rate, jitter, press length, compared with what the macro should do. No more guessing whether the 100 ms repeat works.
Your mouse, kept
On first launch MacroForge reads the 5 profiles and their macros, and keeps a copy of the original bytes: one click puts the mouse back exactly as it was.
A function it cannot decode yet stays exactly as the mouse has it. DPI, polling rate and lighting are never written.
Only the slots whose bytes changed are rewritten, macros before the button table, with the progress in the status bar.
Swarm II streams lighting on the same channel and makes writes fail: MacroForge tells you when it is open.
Everything else
Starts with Windows, hidden next to the clock. Pick a profile or pause the auto-switch from the tray menu.
Every change, up to 200 steps, with an Undo button in each confirmation.
The whole interface in both languages; keys shown as your keyboard layout names them.
A titlebar button and an hourly check. Signed MSI, installed only when you say so.
No sign-up, no cloud, no telemetry. The only network call is the update check.
Save your whole configuration, profiles and macros, to a file.
A 3 MB installer, a Tauri window that opens instantly.
Battery % in the title bar and the tray tooltip, a warning when it runs low; unplug and replug, it follows.
Roadmap
Honest about what ships today: this first release reads your mouse, switches profiles and has the full editor; writing buttons and macros is behind a switch in Options until the hardware validation is finished.
Hold the Easy-Shift bar of the mouse and the keys you chose on your keyboard (QMK keyboards first) switch to their shifted function: a macro, a shortcut, another key. Every other key stays itself.
Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit) · Turtle Beach KONE XP Air · code-signed · no account · 100% local.
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≈ 3 MB · Start-menu shortcut, tray icon, built-in updates.
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