Goes back to my main point. Could we do initial color? Yes. But it opens up the other conflicts I mentioned earlier. It also sets up a slippery slope in terms of features. Let me give you an example.



Initial color? Ok, do you mean the 3 primary colors? That doesn't seem like enough, so maybe we add a few... but what if I want a lighter shade of blue? Now what if that blue is different than the software shade, even though on my screen they look the same? Can't you let me do hex values for colors? Aren't all hex color values the same? (Short answer no) Since I can already control the color can't you guys let me set basic things like the pattern?



So lets say now we have colors and basic effects, like we did before... What about the guy off the street who didn't read this post? He's going to ask - Why cant I do digital effects? Why can I only control 2 of my 4 lights on my motherboard? (Short answer many boards have 2 IC's, one for digital one for analog.) Why when I set blue do only 2 of my 4 zones turn blue? Why doesn't it sync with my RAM? Why when I set blue in my BIOS it turns to red when windows loads (ie another software kicks in)?



The truth is for full RGB control you need software. Its not just set a color and move on anymore. We have digital, analog, patterns, delays, different inputs, etc etc etc.