Addressing individual LEDs using Aura

[Force Gaia]

I'm using an Asus Maximus X Hero Motherboard which has an addressable header on the board. I bought a strip of Bitfenix Alchemy 3 Addressable LEDs for it with the intention of having the strip be certain solid colours in certain locations. For now, I'd just like to have half the strip turn one static colour, and the other half another static colour.

 

However, the Aura software doesn't give me the option to address individual LEDs in the strip, it only allows me to set the entire strip, which defeats the point of the strip being addressable. the only way I seem to get the LEDs to turn different colours to one another is to just let it go full rainbow, which tells me what I want is possible, just not with the software I'm using.

 

Has anyone had any luck in either finding a program that can control aura headers with better control than the official aura software, or writing code (C++ preferred) that would allow me to do it myself?

 

I would rather not have to deal with anything like a USB controller or Arduino, as in theory, I have an addressable header that should allow me the control I want without any extra paraphernalia.

[Force Gaia]

In case anyone else finds this looking for the same, I'll drop anything else I find regarding this issue in this post:

Aura has an SDK - https://www.asus.com/campaign/aura/us/SDK.html

Sample makes it look usable, but apparently Addressable LEDs aren't available in it yet. This may explain the limited options in the software itself
Somebody asking for the same as me in the SDK forums - https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?97592-Addressable-LEDs