Typing Demo XL - Matias Click (Matias Tactile Pro)
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
Seems YouTube embeds are a bit borked. It's (very!) early days you know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiK9HZQnIhk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiK9HZQnIhk
- Elrick
- Location: Swan View, AUSTRALIA
- Main keyboard: Alps - As much as Possible.
- Main mouse: MX518
- Favorite switch: Navy Switch, ALPs, Model-M
- DT Pro Member: -
Thank you Muirium .Muirium wrote: ↑09 Jan 2019, 04:50Seems YouTube embeds are a bit borked. It's (very!) early days you know…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiK9HZQnIhk
Do like the sound on the Matias Clicky because it sounds that way. Who could ever love linears in any way?
Although you can easily distinguish the space bar noise presses between all the other keys. Not a fantastic sound but it's still far better than any other current made Cherry Keyboard (ie, Corsair, Razer and a thousand other nondescript keyboards).
You still have to give Matias credit here, only one to provide a Full-sized Alps keyboard for the masses, that alone is a great achievement particularly in this day and age.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
I'd give them more credit if the damn thing was still working after 12 months.
Sacrilege as this will be to you—as typed here on a clicky Space Invader—I love linears just as much as mad clicky switches like these. Which is to say more than I do most tactiles. Linears are easy lovers…
Sacrilege as this will be to you—as typed here on a clicky Space Invader—I love linears just as much as mad clicky switches like these. Which is to say more than I do most tactiles. Linears are easy lovers…
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Despite all the complaints about broken Matias boards, my two Matiases have never missed a beat xD . Although of course they haven't seen particularly intensive use, only roughly a week each.
That said, I'm touching on the subject in another video I have planned.
That said, I'm touching on the subject in another video I have planned.
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
- SneakyRobb
- THINK
- Location: Canada
- Main keyboard: KB-5161A, F122, Dc2014, Typeheaven, Beamspring FXT
- Main mouse: MX518 Legendary
- DT Pro Member: 0242
I have this board and I greatly enjoy it and use it frequently.
Chyros...Did you take your board to a shoe shine? Seriously wow.
These things as you mentioned in your review, pick up dirt like no other. An omnikey or model m/f in a box for 20 years will have dirt on it, but it blends in. You can use a brand new black matias for 10 minutes and someone walking by will think its 20 years old.
It is almost magical just how quickly they pick up the dirt.
Chyros...Did you take your board to a shoe shine? Seriously wow.
These things as you mentioned in your review, pick up dirt like no other. An omnikey or model m/f in a box for 20 years will have dirt on it, but it blends in. You can use a brand new black matias for 10 minutes and someone walking by will think its 20 years old.
It is almost magical just how quickly they pick up the dirt.
- Chyros
- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: whatever I'm reviewing next :p
- Main mouse: a cheap Logitech
- Favorite switch: Alps SKCM Blue
- DT Pro Member: -
Something just occurred to me; do you reckon they went with this to mimic the Apple "board chow" keyboard? Matias have always been Apple fanboys.SneakyRobb wrote: ↑09 Jan 2019, 15:41I have this board and I greatly enjoy it and use it frequently.
Chyros...Did you take your board to a shoe shine? Seriously wow.
These things as you mentioned in your review, pick up dirt like no other. An omnikey or model m/f in a box for 20 years will have dirt on it, but it blends in. You can use a brand new black matias for 10 minutes and someone walking by will think its 20 years old.
It is almost magical just how quickly they pick up the dirt.
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
The idea did occur to me…
Either the switches were more reliable back then, or I just hadn’t heard people complaining. These days, I’m not as hot on recommending Matias innards, to put it mildly!Muirium wrote: ↑04 Jul 2013, 20:47Matias has been making upgrade keyboards for the Mac for at least a decade, and the (frankly shite) design of Apple's previous generation of white and clear plastic keyboards still looms large across Matias' line. Even the Mac users among us (hi) don't want that look.
Matias has intriguing substance but scores a well earned meh on style. Try those switches!
- Hypersphere
- Location: USA
- Main keyboard: Silenced & Lubed HHKB (Black)
- Main mouse: Logitech G403
- Favorite switch: Topre 45/55g Silenced; Various Alps; IBM Model F
- DT Pro Member: 0038
I like the sound of Matias Click switches, even in the glossy polycarbonate case. I'm not a fan of the Matias styling, however!
I've had good luck with Matias switches thus far. I have several KBP V60 boards, some with Matias Clicks and some with Matias Quiet switches. I've even done a successful top mod of one of the boards to produce hybrid Matias/Blue Alps switches -- the feel is a bit too light for my taste, but all the switches work after the painstaking surgery. I also have bags of loose Matias switches, both Click and Quiet, that so far have worked as intended.
However, I bought the Matias switches and Matias-switch keyboards a few years ago. I think that their QC issues with the Chinese plants have been more recent.
Matias has also been a good source of blank black Alps-stem keycaps and stabilizers for various Matias- and Alps-switch keyboard projects.
I've had good luck with Matias switches thus far. I have several KBP V60 boards, some with Matias Clicks and some with Matias Quiet switches. I've even done a successful top mod of one of the boards to produce hybrid Matias/Blue Alps switches -- the feel is a bit too light for my taste, but all the switches work after the painstaking surgery. I also have bags of loose Matias switches, both Click and Quiet, that so far have worked as intended.
However, I bought the Matias switches and Matias-switch keyboards a few years ago. I think that their QC issues with the Chinese plants have been more recent.
Matias has also been a good source of blank black Alps-stem keycaps and stabilizers for various Matias- and Alps-switch keyboard projects.
- cineraphael
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: 1992 IBM Model M
- Main mouse: Apple Pro Mouse
- Favorite switch: ALP SKCM BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
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Matias did sound like a Simplify ALP that My Matias Tactile Pro 1 have!
- Elrick
- Location: Swan View, AUSTRALIA
- Main keyboard: Alps - As much as Possible.
- Main mouse: MX518
- Favorite switch: Navy Switch, ALPs, Model-M
- DT Pro Member: -
You can't compare any of Matias's Current Switches, to those manufactured years ago between mid 1980's to early 1990's.cineraphael wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 01:17Matias did sound like a Simplify ALP that My Matias Tactile Pro 1 have!
Those ancient wonders known as 'Complicated' whilst all of Matias switches are somewhat simplified, using inferior designed internals.
Sorry to kick Matias's switches to the curb with this fact but it has to be said. His switches can never match the superior sound and feel of those old Alps switches.
Despite that, his keyboards are still way above the common, mass produced Cherry Junk. I would always choose his keyboards over any - made today Cherry using filth.
Although non-Cherry keyboards seem far better for myself. The hatred of Cherry Corp is strong here hence on wards we go, to fight more battles and to defeat more enemies of the great Alps Empire .
- cineraphael
- Location: United States
- Main keyboard: 1992 IBM Model M
- Main mouse: Apple Pro Mouse
- Favorite switch: ALP SKCM BLUE
- DT Pro Member: -
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I agree that it can't compare with a Complicated.ALP switch like SKCM Blue. But my Matias Tacile Pro is a First Gen made in 2003 which they still use ALP but it Simplified or known as ALP SKBM Gray. I am still wanting to try out the actual complicated ALP SKCM switches though. Unfortunately, Goodwill in my city never seem to have any ALP Keyboard.Elrick wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 03:26You can't compare any of Matias's Current Switches, to those manufactured years ago between mid 1980's to early 1990's.cineraphael wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 01:17Matias did sound like a Simplify ALP that My Matias Tactile Pro 1 have!
Those ancient wonders known as 'Complicated' whilst all of Matias switches are somewhat simplified, using inferior designed internals.
Sorry to kick Matias's switches to the curb with this fact but it has to be said. His switches can never match the superior sound and feel of those old Alps switches.
Despite that, his keyboards are still way above the common, mass produced Cherry Junk. I would always choose his keyboards over any - made today Cherry using filth.
Although non-Cherry keyboards seem far better for myself. The hatred of Cherry Corp is strong here hence on wards we go, to fight more battles and to defeat more enemies of the great Alps Empire .
- Elrick
- Location: Swan View, AUSTRALIA
- Main keyboard: Alps - As much as Possible.
- Main mouse: MX518
- Favorite switch: Navy Switch, ALPs, Model-M
- DT Pro Member: -
You have to either rely upon Ebay here exclusively or the For Sale Forum.cineraphael wrote: ↑10 Jan 2019, 03:42Unfortunately, Goodwill in my city never seem to have any ALP Keyboard.
You might find that elusive SKCM switched keyboard from someone who has grown tired of them. You do have rogues such as that, residing here on DT.