![]() You can purchase keycaps from Signature Plastics or harvest them from vintage ALPS keyboards purchased on eBay. If you're making your own custom keyboard, we sell our switches in quantities small enough to build even just one (200 pcs). Most innovations start with hobbyists and DIY enthusiasts, so we want to do everything we can to support their development efforts. This is one of the major advantages mechanical keyboards have over cheaper technologies. These problems can be eliminated completely on a mechanical keyboard, simply by adding a diode to each switch. The result is called ghosting - letters missing from what you actually typed, or additional letters that you didn't type. Most keyboards cannot register more than a few keys pressed at once, so they may not be able to keep up with very fast typists. Needless to say, we were very amused to see Cherry copy this idea in their Cherry MX RGB switches - the sincerest form of flattery. They all support backlighting - in ANY colour. There is no separate "backlit version" of our switches. This makes it easy to design backlit keyboards, as well as indicator lights that appear right on the actual keys - Caps Lock and Num Lock, for example.īest of all, this approach does not interfere with the feel of the switch, and there's no extra cost incurred. Matias Quiet Click Switches last 5x longer - 50 million cycles. The traditional ALPS switches that inspired our design had an operating life of 10 million cycles. You can simply purchase these little jewels and use them in your own products. The good news for you, is that because we went through this long and painful ordeal already, you don't have to. We went a little crazy.īUT, when we were done, we had something truly unique and special - a tactile yet quiet mechanical keyswitch. came to the conclusion that we didn't want to EVER have to do this again. We tested springs, and click leaf shapes, and lubricants, and dampening mechanisms, and metal plates, and stabilizers, and. We spent 2 years poring over the minutiae of what makes a keyboard noisy. ![]() This switch was created for those places. It's great if you're in a room by yourself, but in an office, other people don't want to hear your typing. Most people LOVE the clickiness of it - but sometimes, in some places, it's just too loud. Over the years, the only recurring complaint we've heard, from users of our award-winning Tactile Pro, was the noise. For users who like linear switches, Cherry are good, but they are NOT tactile. ![]() They are a linear design which is, by definition, NOT tactile. Sorry, but your browser does not support iframes.įor proper tactile feedback, you need a click leaf in the switch, or an equivalent mechanism. Adjust your speaker volume (if necessary). We made sample recordings of keyboards that use Matias Quiet Click switches, Cherry Blue, Cherry Brown, and Matias Click switches. How quiet are they? You can hear for yourself. They let you build superior mechanical keyboards that are no louder than the generic keyboards that most computers come with. Matias Quiet Click switches are first mechanical keyswitches that are actually quiet. ![]() Mechanical keyboards offer the best performance, but they’re noisy - too noisy to use in most offices, or around other people. They feel mechanical without sounding mechanical. Designed specifically for our Quiet Pro line of keyboards, Matias Quiet Click switches convey a feeling of refined comfort. ![]()
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