That's a really awesome keyboard! I really like mechanicals but like you have never much cared for the really clickly, shrill, "hollow"-sounding ones (which sadly seems to be the majority of them I've tried in stores). I'm glad you were able to find one that's at least on the quieter side! It also just plain looks fantastic, and that red matches your MIDI keyboard so well.
Last year I was in the same pickle. I've used the same cheapo Logitech keyboards (literally their cheapest membrane model) and mice for eons and killed both of them after years of heavy use and the text completely wearing off most of the keys.
I sort of had a keyboard "midlife crisis" and decided the only solution was to buy a really good keyboard.
After a few weeks of searching (and a bunch of hours watching Chyrosran22's keyboard reviews, among others), I ended up deciding to get a Wooting keyboard. They're a small-ish Dutch brand which makes keyboards using Hall Effect switches instead of mechanical or membrane and thus claim to be more or less indestructible, plus the switches can be swapped if they fail, a big step up from the cheapo membranes which often are useless once one or two keys go.
At the time they had ended the pre-order period for the awaited but rather gawdy-looking Lekker keyboard, using their new custom switch design, but not yet begun the period for the black version. So, I applied for the waitlist and somehow managed to get in line for a Lekker keyboard, as honestly the color scheme doesn't matter too much to me. Fortunately it shipped within a few months and I could finally get back to using all the keys on my keyboard!
Well, here it is after about a year of hard (ab)use (don't mind the ugly old generic wrist-rest):
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[[edit: the yellowness of the image was bothering me so I updated the image to more closely resemble real life]]
It's honestly not super attractive to me, but the aesthetics don't matter too much as long as I keep it clean, plus the white actually happens to match my MIDI keyboard's keys pretty well. The key feel and sound is just exceptional though, quite deep compared to most keyboards these days, with the keys being incredibly smooth. Like the BlackWidow V3, the Lekker uses linear switches. I type rather moderate to hard on it (probably, like you, it is from switching from heavier keyboards to a lighter linear), but if you type light, it can be reasonably quiet.
The big selling feature for me is that, thanks to the analog hall effect switch design, you can set the activation point of the keys to whatever you want in millimeters via software; a very light touch, a full stroke, anywhere in between. As someone who spent way too much time trying to tweak the sensitivity of my MIDI keyboard to feel "right" to me, this feature really made it worth it for me, funky colors and all. They now have a black version, but I've spent my keyboard budget for ah... the next few years.
I'd definitely recommend Wooting keyboards to anyone interested, so long as the price isn't too absurd. It's a lot for a computer keyboard, but honestly not far off a decent MIDI keyboard.
Last year I was in the same pickle. I've used the same cheapo Logitech keyboards (literally their cheapest membrane model) and mice for eons and killed both of them after years of heavy use and the text completely wearing off most of the keys.
I sort of had a keyboard "midlife crisis" and decided the only solution was to buy a really good keyboard.
After a few weeks of searching (and a bunch of hours watching Chyrosran22's keyboard reviews, among others), I ended up deciding to get a Wooting keyboard. They're a small-ish Dutch brand which makes keyboards using Hall Effect switches instead of mechanical or membrane and thus claim to be more or less indestructible, plus the switches can be swapped if they fail, a big step up from the cheapo membranes which often are useless once one or two keys go.
At the time they had ended the pre-order period for the awaited but rather gawdy-looking Lekker keyboard, using their new custom switch design, but not yet begun the period for the black version. So, I applied for the waitlist and somehow managed to get in line for a Lekker keyboard, as honestly the color scheme doesn't matter too much to me. Fortunately it shipped within a few months and I could finally get back to using all the keys on my keyboard!
Well, here it is after about a year of hard (ab)use (don't mind the ugly old generic wrist-rest):
[[edit: the yellowness of the image was bothering me so I updated the image to more closely resemble real life]]
It's honestly not super attractive to me, but the aesthetics don't matter too much as long as I keep it clean, plus the white actually happens to match my MIDI keyboard's keys pretty well. The key feel and sound is just exceptional though, quite deep compared to most keyboards these days, with the keys being incredibly smooth. Like the BlackWidow V3, the Lekker uses linear switches. I type rather moderate to hard on it (probably, like you, it is from switching from heavier keyboards to a lighter linear), but if you type light, it can be reasonably quiet.
The big selling feature for me is that, thanks to the analog hall effect switch design, you can set the activation point of the keys to whatever you want in millimeters via software; a very light touch, a full stroke, anywhere in between. As someone who spent way too much time trying to tweak the sensitivity of my MIDI keyboard to feel "right" to me, this feature really made it worth it for me, funky colors and all. They now have a black version, but I've spent my keyboard budget for ah... the next few years.
I'd definitely recommend Wooting keyboards to anyone interested, so long as the price isn't too absurd. It's a lot for a computer keyboard, but honestly not far off a decent MIDI keyboard.
Sample library developer, composer, and amateur organologist at Versilian Studios.
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