How to Build a Custom Mechanical Keyboard: Beginner’s Guide

Learn how to build a custom mechanical keyboard, choose compatible parts, budget for your first build, and assemble a hot-swap kit step by step.

Mechanical vs Magnetic Keyboards: Which Is Better?

Mechanical vs magnetic keyboards compared: gaming performance, typing feel, Rapid Trigger, price, customization, and which ...
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Arturia’s AstroLab gets its biggest firmware update yet, adding deeper sound editing and 67 new presets

With its new Sound Edit view opening up access to key parameters, AstroLab 2.0 finds the stage keyboard inching towards becoming a fully-fledged synthesizer ...
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It's one of the rarest ever made: Cherry Audio brings a forgotten '80s synth back to life

This quirky analogue poly is the latest vintage synth to get the Cherry Audio treatment ...

I created an editor that lets you control the YAMAHA DX100 like a modern soft synth

I love the YAMAHA DX100.The electric piano and bell sounds characteristic of FM synthesis still sound great even today.They ...

Arturia adds proper sound design tools to its AstroLab synths

Arturia has also added a new collection of multisampled instruments, including pianos, strings, and brass sections that offer ...

Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of “mechanical” switches

TMR keyboards became available in 2024 and are marketed as using more advanced sensing technology than mechanical, optical, ...

The keyboard sleeping in your parents' house can do this if it has a MIDI port

Is there an old electronic keyboard sleeping in a closet or storage room at your parents' house? If it has been tucked away ...