Looking For Large Programmable Keyboard (FOUND)

[The Old Myron Siren]

I've been doing a lot more editing on my computer recently and find my self constantly navigating through menus to add various effects and such. I also have been getting into making Soundboards to use in Discord calls to spice things up a bit when needed. I currently use a G910 as my keyboard which has 3 pages of 9 macro keys. These work fine and well, but I would like to avoid cycling through pages and profiles to get access all of my keybinds. I figured I would look into getting something large with enough buttons that I wouldn't know what to do with them all, while also spending as little money as possible A.K.A the impossible dream. I found this keyboard on Amazon that seems to be a pretty good deal, however I can't seem to find much information about or reviews seeing as it's intended to be a POS keybaord. Does anyone have any experience with this keyboard or know if I would be able to assign macros to each key? It's advertised as being fully programmable, but what exactly would that entail. This biggest thing for me would be being able to use something like "CTRL + ALT + 1" as an assignment, seeing as I would never hit those combination of keys regularly. Thanks for the read and any responses are always appreciated!

 

EDIT: I ended up going with the Cherry POS keyboard and I could not be happier with it. The switches are rubber domes which I actually find to be quite satisfying to press for this kind of use case. It feels super solid and the feet on it practically glue it down to whatever surface its on. The Cherry Tools software for it is pretty fantastic (although it does look fairly dated) and you can assign up to 10 key presses to each key that is stored in on board memory and as far as I can tell you assign "unlimited" if you store the assignment software side. There's also three layers of key assignments (haven't began to tackle that yet) so I'm assuming you could get 420 macros assigned if you left two of the keys to assign to CTRL and SHIFT to access the layers. If anyone else is looking to make their own macro keyboard, this thing is absolutely killer for the price of ~$113 USD.

[732]

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Koolertron-Single-Handed-Programmable-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B076LRJ528/ref=sr_1_18?dchild=1&keywords=macropad&qid=1586996939&s=electronics&sr=1-18

 

Other options are Razer Tartarus v2 (mecha-membrane), the Razer Tartarus Pro (optical), the Razer Orbweaver (mechanical), and the Koolertron Macropad.

[pas008]

been using genovation 682u myself for gaming (think they have cp48  48key now)

bought a 2nd for cad stuff

been using them for like 10 yrs lol

just bought other keys for gaming one

and use relegendables for cad one or throw novelty caps on them too

 

[The Old Myron Siren]

On 4/15/2020 at 8:34 PM, 732 said:

Something like this?

https://www.amazon.com/Koolertron-Single-Handed-Programmable-Mechanical-Keyboard/dp/B076LRJ528/ref=sr_1_18?dchild=1&keywords=macropad&qid=1586996939&s=electronics&sr=1-18

 

Other options are Razer Tartarus v2 (mecha-membrane), the Razer Tartarus Pro (optical), the Razer Orbweaver (mechanical), and the Koolertron Macropad.

The first one is more like what I'm looking for, but a larger scale. Also being able to assign multi key combinations to the keys being a native feature would be stellar as well. I plan on using it for soundboards as well as keyboard shortcuts for Resolve.

 

On 4/15/2020 at 11:35 PM, pas008 said:

been using genovation 682u myself for gaming (think they have cp48  48key now)

bought a 2nd for cad stuff

been using them for like 10 yrs lol

just bought other keys for gaming one

and use relegendables for cad one or throw novelty caps on them too

 

I took a look at the genovation pads and they looked great! Their price wasn't outrageous but again, I'm looking to spend as little as possible. I ended up pulling the trigger on the Cherry G86-6340 POS keyboard, so hopefully I don't end up regretting it too much. 142 keys for $115 US is tough to beat. From what I've read (which is not much seeing as I can't find anything on this keyboard, unsurprisingly) the Cherry Tools software can let you assign macros to all 142 keys, which if that proves to be true, is an absolute God send.

[The Old Myron Siren]

I ended up going with the Cherry POS keyboard and I could not be happier with it. The switches are rubber domes which I actually find to be quite satisfying to press for this kind of use case. It feels super solid and the feet on it practically glue it down to whatever surface its on. The Cherry Tools software for it is pretty fantastic (although it does look fairly dated) and you can assign up to 10 key presses to each key that is stored in on board memory and as far as I can tell you assign "unlimited" if you store the assignment software side. There's also three layers of key assignments (haven't began to tackle that yet) so I'm assuming you could get 420 macros assigned if you left two of the keys to assign to CTRL and SHIFT to access the layers. If anyone else is looking to make their own macro keyboard, this thing is absolutely killer for the price of ~$113 USD.