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Title: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: saxophone on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:13:43
I need kits with a small speaker that can be toggled to make those click or beep sounds when the keys actuate. That way I can get tactile with linear switches. Seriously why did they stop doing these. on keybards I loved the old ones, I need this but on a new board that can go 6kro over USB or better.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: chyros on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:26:26
I need kits with a small speaker that can be toggled to make those click or beep sounds when the keys actuate. That way I can get tactile with linear switches. Seriously why did they stop doing these. on keybards I loved the old ones, I need this but on a new board that can go 6kro over USB or better.
Get a Zenith ZKB-2. It comes with a clicker, full NKRO, excellent switches and had better build quality than whatever the board is you're using at the moment ;) .
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: need on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:38:14
That sounds exactly like what a sound emitting toy gun that kids love.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: quasistellar on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:48:07
I need kits with a small speaker that can be toggled to make those click or beep sounds when the keys actuate. That way I can get tactile with linear switches. Seriously why did they stop doing these. on keybards I loved the old ones, I need this but on a new board that can go 6kro over USB or better.

What you need more than a speaker kit is a dictionary.  :p
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: supamesican on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:48:38
technically that would be auditory feed back not tactile. but its an idea
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: MOZ on Fri, 27 May 2016, 07:51:40
The new Planck has this.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: Red October on Sun, 29 May 2016, 01:13:16
IBM 6112884 + Hasu's converter is not unreasonably priced and has an infinitely adjustable beep.  It can go all the way from "Barely Audible" to "Uncomfortably Loud".  Actually you can turn it down so much that it's off.  There's no detent or anything, but it`s off just the same.  I've got one of those Zeniths, though, and it is indeed nice.  The procedure to turn the clicker on and off is really arcane, though, it's something like "Hold two specific keys while the machine boots", IIRC, and there's no volume knob for it, it's the volume it is.  I suppose you could resort to 19th century techniques to quiet it (The expression "Put a sock in it" came from the common method of quieting a gramaphone player without an actual volume control of some kind; stuff a sock in the horn) but I don't know if you could make it louder if you wanted it.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: zcmy on Sun, 29 May 2016, 01:51:58
IBM 6112884 + Hasu's converter is not unreasonably priced and has an infinitely adjustable beep.  It can go all the way from "Barely Audible" to "Uncomfortably Loud".  Actually you can turn it down so much that it's off.  There's no detent or anything, but it`s off just the same.  I've got one of those Zeniths, though, and it is indeed nice.  The procedure to turn the clicker on and off is really arcane, though, it's something like "Hold two specific keys while the machine boots", IIRC, and there's no volume knob for it, it's the volume it is.  I suppose you could resort to 19th century techniques to quiet it (The expression "Put a sock in it" came from the common method of quieting a gramaphone player without an actual volume control of some kind; stuff a sock in the horn) but I don't know if you could make it louder if you wanted it.

Hmm.. you could do that, add a noise insulating layer around the whole damn thing and then try typing. Feelios will be degraded but at least the sound wouldn't be as loud
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: davkol on Sun, 29 May 2016, 02:31:11
"They" stopped making these? Dunno, Kinesis Advantage, for example, is still produced and available.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: need on Sun, 29 May 2016, 05:22:37
well kniesis is such a niche thing that almost doesn't exist...
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: davkol on Sun, 29 May 2016, 05:27:07
well kniesis is such a niche thing that almost doesn't exist...
What is "kniesis"? I don't know that either.
Title: Re: You know what they should have nowadays
Post by: need on Sun, 29 May 2016, 05:28:10
well kniesis is such a niche thing that almost doesn't exist...
What is "kniesis"? I don't know that either.
what are you, internet correct spelling police?