Easy-Shift[+]™ button

World first: the Easy-Shift[+]™ button
THE DUAL ASSIGNMENT FUNCTION FOR MOUSE BUTTONS

Compact design with 5 buttons but more functions than a 10-button mouse?
It’s possible with the ROCCAT™ Pyra, thanks to the Easy-Shift[+]™ button.

FROM OFFICE TO GAMING...

Over the years, the computer mouse has developed – depending on its area of use – from a 2-button mouse into a real marvel of buttons and functions. Gamers in particular like to have a load of buttons at their disposal so that they can selectively and quickly execute as many commands as possible.

THE PROBLEM: ACCESSING THE BUTTONS
Nowadays, some gaming mice are often teeming with extra buttons so that you can access as many commands as possible at the same time – with the end result being that every usable piece of real estate on a mouse has been utilized to the max making it increasingly difficult to accommodate new buttons from an ergonomic design perspective. As a result, they are increasingly difficult to access with your fingers – making it more complicated to use the mouse and increasing the time it takes to get used to the mouse after you’ve bought it.

So, how can you double the number of button functions on a mouse without needing to sacrifice ease-of-use, accessibility and ergonomics?

THE SOLUTION: ROCCAT™ EASY-SHIFT[+]™

The ROCCAT™ Pyra Wireless Gaming Mouse manages to overcome this problem with a sophisticated invention – the Easy-Shift[+]™ Button Duplicator. That’s the name of the practical side button on the mouse which doubles the amount of functions on the Pyra in one fell-swoop.

EASY-SHIFT[+]™: ASSIGNING DUAL FUNCTIONS TO THE MOUSE BUTTONS

For the first time ever, Easy-Shift[+]™ allows mouse buttons and mouse wheel to perform additional tasks by assigning them two functions. In terms of the way it works, the Easy-Shift[+]™ button is very similar to the Shift key on a keyboard. For instance, if you hold down the Easy-Shift[+]™ button on the Pyra and press one of the other standard mouse buttons at the same time, you execute a second function (=dual-assignment).

This makes it possible to assign each individual mouse button, as well as all mouse wheel directions (up/down/depressed), not just one, but two individual functions. In doing so, the number of available functions doubles from 6 to 12.
Convenient, preconfigured functions are available (see the table) in the driver for each of the mouse buttons as well as the mouse wheel – you can also assign your own macros to the buttons.

PRACTICAL MACRO CONTROLS:
A good example of using secondary button assignments with the help of Easy-Shift[+]™ is when macro controls that are integrated in the driver are selected. Among other examples, here you’ll find multimedia functions which you can use to launch, as well as control, your media player using just the mouse. For instance, the mouse wheel can be used to control the volume level as soon as you hold the Easy-Shift[+]™ button depressed.

In keeping with that, the left and right mouse buttons can then be assigned ‘Previous/Next track’ in combination with the Easy-Shift[+]™ button. Doing this becomes so intuitive that ROCCAT beta testers no longer wanted to do without the Easy-Shift[+]™ button after a short while.

Another advantage of Easy-Shift[+]™ is that you get the range of functions offered by a ‘big’ gaming mouse in a compact package with buttons that are just as easy to access. The best in ergonomics and maximum functionality can finally coexist in harmony.

Easy-Shift[+]™ examples:

	Easy-Shift[+]™ Browser:	Easy-Shift[+]™ Multimedia:	Easy-Shift[+]™ WoW:
Button:	4   +   1   = Page back	4   +   1   = Previous track	4   +   1   = Mount up
Button:	4   +   2   = Page forward	4   +   2   = Next track	4   +   2   = Dismount
Button:	4   +   3   = Open new window	4   +   3   = Mute	4   +   3   = Buff self & pet macro
Button:	4   +   5   = Add bookmark	4   +   5   = Launch music player	4   +   5   = Use trinket
Button:	4   +   6   = Next tab	4   +   6   = Raise volume	4   +   6   = Pet attack
Button:	4   +   7   = Previous tab	4   +   7   = Lower volume	4   +   7   = Pet follow

YOUR OWN MACROS IN COMBINATION WITH Easy-Shift[+]™

The Pyra also comes with the award-winning ROCCAT™ Macro Manager. Use the Macro Manager to create short or very long and complex command sequences for your applications and games. Just like the preconfigured ones supplied with the driver, these custom macros can be really easily assigned to any one of the mouse buttons – and of course as a dual-assignment in combination with the Easy-Shift[+]™ button.