No: SOCD is a key-handling mode, and the AULA F87 Pro V2 offers it on ordinary hot-swap mechanical switches. It settles opposite-direction presses such as left and right strafe, while Rapid Trigger stays a magnetic-board feature. It is sold through Evetech.
SOCD has become one of the most talked-about keyboard features, and it tends to be sold alongside magnetic switches and Rapid Trigger, as if the three were a package. They are not. The AULA F87 Pro V2 proves the point: it offers SOCD on a mechanical keyboard, with ordinary hot-swap switches, because SOCD lives in how the board handles key signals rather than in how each switch senses a press.
No, you do not need magnetic switches for SOCD. SOCD is a key-handling mode in the keyboard's firmware, and the F87 Pro V2 provides it on standard mechanical switches, settling what happens when opposing keys such as left and right strafe are held together. Rapid Trigger, by contrast, relies on magnetic switches that measure key depth. The F87 Pro V2 is sold through Evetech for R899 with a 1 Year Local Warranty.
SOCD stands for simultaneous opposing cardinal directions. Picture holding A to strafe left, then pressing D to strafe right before letting go of A. Without SOCD handling, many games read both keys as held and cancel them out, so your character stops dead for a moment. With it, the keyboard decides which input wins and reports only that one, so the direction change is clean.
Because that decision is made in how the board processes signals, any switch type can feed it. The switch just has to report pressed or not pressed, which every mechanical switch does.
Magnetic, or Hall effect, switches measure how far each key has moved at every point in its travel. That enables two things a mechanical switch cannot do:
SOCD tidies up conflicts between keys. Rapid Trigger speeds up the reset of each key. They complement each other, but one does not require the other, which is why the F87 Pro V2 can offer SOCD without being magnetic.
Whether SOCD-style features are allowed depends on the game and the event, and those rules have changed over time. Some competitive communities have restricted certain forms of automatic input handling. If you play in organised or ranked competition, check the current rules published by the game's developer or the tournament organiser before relying on it.
SOCD comes with two other key modes. Mod-Tap gives a key a second role when held, such as acting as Shift. Toggle latches a function on or off with a single press.
The board around those modes is built for fast play. Its 8000Hz polling cuts the reporting gap to 0.125ms on AULA's numbers. It is a tenkeyless layout that keeps the navigation cluster, and it runs corded, on a 2.4GHz dongle or over Bluetooth, drawing on a 10000mAh cell when unplugged. Every socket is hot-swappable, so the mechanical switches can be changed without soldering, and a gasket structure with seven dampening layers softens each press.
It also has a 49-LED dot-matrix display that turns playing audio into a live spectrum. See how it compares in Evetech's gaming keyboards range, or check the keyboard best sellers for other popular boards.
It stops opposing direction keys from cancelling each other out, so switching from left to right strafe happens without a pause.
Adjustable actuation depth and Rapid Trigger, both of which depend on the switch measuring how far the key has moved.
Not necessarily. Rules vary by game and tournament and can change, so check the rules currently published for the game and event you play.
Mod-Tap and Toggle, alongside SOCD.
It reduces reporting delay, so the clean input SOCD produces reaches the PC sooner. The two work on different parts of the process.
Yes. All sockets are hot-swappable for mechanical switches, with no soldering needed.
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It stops opposing direction keys from cancelling each other out, so switching from left to right strafe happens without a pause.
Adjustable actuation depth and Rapid Trigger, both of which depend on the switch measuring how far the key has moved.
Not necessarily. Rules vary by game and tournament and can change, so check the rules currently published for the game and event you play.
Mod-Tap and Toggle, alongside SOCD.
It reduces reporting delay, so the clean input SOCD produces reaches the PC sooner. The two work on different parts of the process.
Yes. All sockets are hot-swappable for mechanical switches, with no soldering needed.
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