Turtle Beach Grip 500 User manual

Turtle Beach
Grip 500 Laser Gaming
Mouse
User Guide

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents!...............................................................................................................!4!
Introduction!.........................................................................................................................!5!
Installation!..........................................................................................................................!5!
Opening and Closing Grip 500 Configuration Software!.......................................!6!
Configuring Your Grip 500 Mouse!.................................................................................!7!
Main Window !.....................................................................................................................................!7!
Profiles!.....................................................................................................................................................!7!
Button!Assignments!.................................................................................................................................!8!
Performance Settings !..........................................................................................................................!9!
Setting DPI levels!................................................................................................................................!9!
Setting DPI in each level!....................................................................................................................!9!
Setting Report (Polling) Rate!..........................................................................................................!10!
Setting Lift-Off Height!.....................................................................................................................!10!
Setting Double Click Speed!...............................................................................................................!10!
Illumination Settings !........................................................................................................................!11!
Setting the Illumination Effect!.......................................................................................................!11!
Setting the Scroll Wheel Color!.........................................................................................................!11!
Macro Editor !......................................................................................................................................!12!
Creating New Macros!..........................................................................................................................!12!
Recording Macros with no Delays!....................................................................................................!13!
Recording Macros with a Set Delay!.................................................................................................!13!
Editing Macros!.....................................................................................................................................!14!
Saving, Loading, Deleting Macros!....................................................................................................!14!
Help !.........................................................................................................................................!14!

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Introduction
Welcome to the Turtle Beach Grip 500 Gaming Mouse User’s Guide. This user’s guide is
intended to introduce you to the features and operation of your Grip 500 Gaming Mouse
and the configuration software that can be used to enable and configure all its powerful
features.
For more help, visit www.turtlebeach.com/grip500.
Installation
Visit www.turtlebeach.com/grip500 to download the Grip 500 Configuration Software.
Once the download completes, open the installer and follow the installation instructions.
After installation, the Grip 500 Configuration Software and run in the background. You can
launch the program by double clicking it in the system tray per the picture below.
Plug your Grip 500 Mouse into an available USB port. Occasionally, Turtle Beach will upgrade
the firmware in the mouse. If the program says that it wants to upgrade the firmware in your
mouse, please click OK and the mouse firmware will be updated.
By default, the Grip 500 Configuration Software will be located in your Program Files folder
on Windows.
Installation Requirements
Grip 500 Configuration Software requires approximately 50 MB of free hard drive space and
one of the currently supported platforms:
Windows XP (32 and 64 bit)
Windows Vista (32 and 64 bit)
Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit)
Windows 8 (32 and 64 bit)
Windows 8.1 (32 and 64 bit)
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Opening and Closing Grip 500
Configuration Software
After installation the Grip 500 Configuration Software background processes will start
and the interface will open automatically.
When you close the application, an icon will remain in the system tray. You can re-
launch the application by double clicking on the Turtle Beach icon in the system tray
You can also start the application by launching it from the Windows Start menu (in
Windows 7) or from the Apps launcher (in Windows 8).
You can minimize the application by pressing the _ icon. In this case the application
will run in the background and can be quickly reopened from the Task Bar. You can
close the application by pressing the X icon. This closes the application but it remains
available in the System Tray.
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Configuring Your Grip 500 Mouse
You can enable features and customize the configuration of you Grip 500 from the main
configuration window and the subsequent windows that open depending on what you are
adjusting.
Main Window
Basic operations such as assigning actions to buttons and managing Profiles are
accomplished from the main window.
Profiles
Grip 500 can be programmed with up to 5 Profile. A Profile holds all the configuration settings of you mouse
including button assignments, macro assignments, illumination settings, and performance settings. It may be
convenient to create a custom for your favorite games or applications. We also suggest that you select a
different scroll wheel illumination color for each profile so that you can quickly see which profile you have
selected.
The 5 profiles are stored in memory on the mouse so they will be present even if you plug your mouse into another
computer that does not have the software installed. The profile that is active on the mouse is selected either by
clicking on the Profile bar at the top of the window or by pressing the Profile button on the bottom of the mouse.
Pressing the Profile button will cycle through your 5 Profiles. The currently active Profile will be on the top
layer of the stack of Profiles and is Darkened while the other profiles are in the background and are gold colored.
To create a custom profile, select the settings and button assignments that you would like and then click on Apply.
Pressing the Apply Button loads the Profile to the mouse and leaves the Configuration Window open for more
operations. Pressing the OK button loads the Profile settings to the mouse and then closes the Window. Pressing
the Cancel Button cancels all changes.
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Button Assignments
All 9 buttons on the Grip 500 can be reprogrammed to do almost anything you want. This includes the scroll up
and down operation.
You can program any of the following to buttons using the Button Assignment pull-down menus.
•Mouse buttons – Left click, right click, middle click, mouse button 4 and 5, scroll up, scroll down. You can also
Deactivate the button.
•Sensitivity (DPI) - Up, Down, or Cycle to next setting.
•Keyboard keys – Up to 3 simultaneous keystrokes along with CTRL SHIFT, ALT, and WIN modifier keys.
•Macros – You can create up to 50 complex Macros with up to approximately 100 commands each and then assign
them to any button. First create the macro (See the Macro Creation section) and then assign it to any button.
•Media Buttons – Volume up, volume down, mute, play / pause, next, previous
•Launch a program – By selecting Launch Program, you can program a button to automatically launch another
program. Select Launch Program and then locate the application .exe file. They usually are in your Program Files
or Program Files (x86) folder.
After programing a button with a new command remember to hit the Apply or OK button to apply it to your mouse.
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Performance Settings
To customize the performance settings of your mouse, press the Performance Settings button. This will open the
Performance Settings Window.
This window allows you to customize the following for your mouse:
•Mouse movement speed (DPI) can be adjusted in up to 4 levels from DPI of 100 to 8200 in increments of 50 DPI.
•DPI for the X direction (horizontal) and Y direction (vertical) can be set differently if you’d like. This may useful
in games where you want to be able to move or aim faster left to right than up and down.
•Report (Polling) Rate can be set in the following levels – 125, 250, 500, or 1000 Hertz. Generally if you have a fast
computer, 1000 Hz is best. If you have a slower computer a lower setting may be better.
•Lift-Off Height. This adjustment allows you to tailor how high you have to life the mouse off the surface to get it
to stop tracking. This can be useful to get the best performance from you mousepad and your personal preference
for moving and picking up your mouse.
•Double click speed – Adjusts how fast you click the buttons to get Windows to register it as a double clike.
Setting DPI levels
On the upper right section of the window, select the number of DPI levels you would like in this profile (from 1 to
4). This will change the number of panels you will be visible. The currently active Level will be on the top layer
of the stack of Levels and is Darkened while the other Levels are in the background and are gold colored.
Setting DPI in each level
For each level that you created, set the DPI by sliding the DPI slider to the DPI you want. Or you can click in the
DPI box and type the exact DPI.
If you’d like to set the X and Y DPI’s differently, select the Customize Different Speed checkbox. This will then
separate the DPI slider into 2 different ones and you can then the X and Y DPI’s to different numbers.
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Press Apply or OK to save those settings. Click Cancel if you want to chance what you have changed.
Setting Report (Polling) Rate
Report rate is the frequency that the mouse reports it’s status to the Windows operating system. A setting of
1000 hertz means that it reports 1000 times per second or approximately once ever 1 mS. This is very fast. Most
modern computers are fine getting information this quickly. You only need to adjust this setting if you have a
slower computer or one that is doing a lot of other operations.
If you’d like to set it lower just click the switch corresponding to 125, 250, 500, or 1000 Hz.
Setting Lift-Off Height
You can change how high you have to lift the mouse off the surface for it to stop tracking. The default level is
medium which is approximately 1.5 mm on the Turtle Beach Drift Mousepad. Using the slider you can adjust the
lift distance from about 0 to 2.5 mm.
Experiment with levels from low to high to find the level you prefer.
Caution: While experimenting with lift distance, when you go to the lowest level, the mouse may stop tracking on
your surface. Be sure to have another mouse input device (like a trackpad or a 2nd mouse) so that you can still
move your cursor around and select a higher Lift-Off distance if this happens.
Setting Double Click Speed
Slide the Double Click Speed cursor back and forth to adjust the Windows double click speed from fast to slow.
After changing settings always remember to press Apply or OK to save your settings to your mouse.

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Illumination Settings
To customize the Illumination of your mouse press the Illumination Settings button. This will open the
Illumination Settings Window.
In this window, you can set the illumination of the 3 zones (scroll wheel, Turtle Beach logo, and front grill).
Setting the Illumination Effect
Notice that when you hover your cursor over the logo, scroll wheel, or front of the mouse that that area glows
brightly. Click on one of the 3 zones and then go over to the Effects pull-down menu and select the illumination
effect you want. You can select from:
•OFF – Turn the illumination off
•Steady – The illumination stays on all the time
•Breathing – The illumination goes up and down like it is breathing.
•Battle – The illumination starts off but then gets brighter and brighter based on how fast you are clicking your
mouse buttons.
Setting the Scroll Wheel Color
The scroll wheel has a full RGB (red – green – blue) LED so you can set it to 16.8 million possible colors.
Hover your cursor over the scroll wheel and then click on it. This will enable the color picker. To set the color,
first select the color using the vertical color bar. Then select the brightness shade of that color in the box to the
left of the color bar.
The boxes on the bottom right tells you the value of the R(red), G(green), and B(blue) components of the LED. It
also tells you the hex value of that color. These may be useful to setf an exact color that you like from some
other application.
After selecting the color and effect, remember to press Apply or OK.
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As you use colors, the software will remember up to 10 colors and place them in the little boxes at the bottom of
the scroll wheel color picker. You can reuse them later by clicking on the one you want.
Macro Editor
With the Grip 500 and its configuration software, you can create and assign complex combinations of keystrokes
so that you can do almost anything you want. You can also insert commands and customize the timing / delays
between those keystrokes.
To enable the Macro Editor press the Macro Editor button which will bring up the main macro editor screen.
Creating New Macros
The first step is to create your macro. Press the New button and the above Create New Macro box will popup. Type
in a name for your macro and then press OK.
Then press the Record button. Now all keystrokes that you type will be recorded along with the timing (how fast
you are pressing the buttons). When you have completed your macro click on the Stop button. Your macro is now
ready to assign the any mouse button. If you want to make more detailed adjustments to your macro you can edit
it using the same screen.
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Recording Macros with no Delays
If you want to record macros with no delay between the keystrokes then before you click Record, first select the
box next to the Ignore Delay Time Box then click the apply Arrow. Then press Record and press all the keystrokes
you want in your macro. Once you are complete, click on the Stop button. Now the delay between your keystokes
will be 0 ms and they will be output to the computer as fast as possible.
Recording Macros with a Set Delay
If you want to record macros with the same non-zero delay between the keystrokes then before you click Record,
first select the box next to the Insert Default Time Box then click the apply Arrow. Then press Record and press
all the keystrokes you want in your macro. Once you are complete, click on the Stop button. Now the delay
between your keystokes will be the same number of ms and they will be output to the computer at that rate. See
the below example using 5 ms delay.
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Editing Macros
You can also edit macros that you previously recorded from the macro editor window.
To change the timing of commands in your macro, select the line of the keystroke in the editor window and them
change the delay in the Adjust Delay box. When you have the delay you want to apply to that line click on the left
arrow to apply it to that line. You can apply the same delay (or a different one) on any step in your macro via the
same method.
If you’d like to insert Commands (such as Page Up, Copy, Paste, Close Window, Undo, Print Screen, Zoom In) select
the line just after where you would like to insert the command. Then select the desired Command from the
Commands pull-down menu and press the Apply Arrow. Your command will be inserted just above the selected line.
Saving, Loading, Deleting Macros
You can save macros to a file for use later on another computer or to send to a friend.
To save a macro select the macro that you want to save and then press Save. Then select the location on your
computer where you would like to save your macro. A file with a .mac file extension with the file name of your
macro will be saved in that location. You can then copy or email that file to another computer and your macros
will be there.
To load a macro that you saved, press the Load button and navigate to the location on your computer where the
file is stored. The macro will now be available for use on that new computer. (Note: The other computer needs to
have the Grip 500 Configuration software installed.
Help
To access this manual at any time, press the ? (Help) button on the top right of the window.
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