If I would have to find a name, I'd call them Scratch Tactile!
They should make a Smooth Tactile switch instead.
Matias Quiet Click Switches
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7bit
- Location: Berlin, DE
- Main keyboard: Tipro / IBM 3270 emulator
- Main mouse: Logitech granite for SGI
- Favorite switch: MX Lock
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They do not click and obviously are tactile.
If I would have to find a name, I'd call them Scratch Tactile!
They should make a Smooth Tactile switch instead.
If I would have to find a name, I'd call them Scratch Tactile!
They should make a Smooth Tactile switch instead.
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matt3o
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- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: WhiteFox
- Main mouse: Anywhere MX
- Favorite switch: Anything, really
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of course they are tactile 
I was trying to be ironical.
"scratch tactile" is not bad
I was trying to be ironical."scratch tactile" is not bad
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matt3o
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- Location: Italy
- Main keyboard: WhiteFox
- Main mouse: Anywhere MX
- Favorite switch: Anything, really
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MX brown you mean?
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ماء
- Location: Solo, ID
- Main keyboard: Soon
- Main mouse: Roccat Lua
- Favorite switch: Blacks to heavy>Lighter
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XM Greens someone says is linear clicky.I want try Topre or Alps which, better tactile!Muirium wrote:Indeed. I'd like to try a perfectly linear yet clicky switch. The anti-Topre!
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Findecanor
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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Not switches that I know of, but indeed some keyboards.ماء wrote:there is Linear Clicky?
The most recent example would be Kinesis Advantage LF with MX Reds: the click is through the speaker.
There are some vintage keyboards that have linear switches and a solenoid that provides the click.
ClicKey for Windows will make every keyboard clicky through the PC's sound card.
Regular, unlubed MX reds ...Muirium wrote:Scratch linear is MX red, of course.
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Findecanor
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
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AFAIK, they should be completely interchangeable. Pin-compatible, keycap-compatible and have same outer dimensions of the switch housing. I dunno if you could swap the top housing - but you can't always do that on vintage Alps either.Greystoke wrote:Are Matias switches backwards compatible with older Alps keyboards? Can I use these to mod a Focus FK-2001 to use quiet click switches?
Because Alps switches can be opened from the top, you don't need to solder. You could open with tweezers and swap in the new slider, spring and click leaf. Opening would risk exposure to dust, though, and I find Alps to be a bit sensitive to that, but YMMV.
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bhtooefr
- Location: Newark, OH, USA
- Main keyboard: TEX Shinobi
- Main mouse: TrackPoint IV
- Favorite switch: IBM Selectric (not a switch, I know)
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As far as I know, no parts are interchangeable between Matias and Alps, but whole switches are fully interchangeable.
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Greystoke
- Main keyboard: CM Storm Trigger
- Main mouse: Razer
- Favorite switch: Cherry MX Green
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Thanks for the info! I've got a couple of custom cases for Focus keyboards on the way, and donor parts from both a FK-2000 (9-key directional arrows - FTW!) and a FK-2001. I've built one so far, and it's pretty solid, but I think I'd like to try one with Matias quiet-click switches.bhtooefr wrote:As far as I know, no parts are interchangeable between Matias and Alps, but whole switches are fully interchangeable.
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