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Pebble, a round tactile clack

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Tactile, lubed, thick caps: a round, full clack.

Press any key, or tap the keys below, to hear Pebble. These are the same samples the app plays.

Category
Mechanical
Brightness (centroid)
2,370 Hz
Key press length
88 ms

What it imitates

Pebble models a tactile switch, the kind with a bump you feel halfway down, lubed and under thick caps. It carries more low end than any other keyboard pack in Teclo, so it reads as full and round rather than clicky.

Teclo’s sounds are synthesized, not recorded. Its sound engine builds each pack from a model of the parts that make the sound, then plays the same files in the app that you hear on this page.

How it measures

Every pack is measured when it is rendered. The table puts Pebble next to Cushion and Boulder, the packs closest to it in feel.

Pack Category Brightness (Hz) Press (ms) 90% of energy in (ms) Low/high (dB) 1–3 kHz share
Pebble Mechanical 2,370 88 13.2 -7.8 47%
Cushion Mechanical 2,380 72 8.4 -8.3 53%
Boulder Mechanical 2,428 90 18.1 -11.5 70%

Brightness is the energy-weighted mean frequency of a key press, so a higher number sounds brighter. Low/high is the energy below 1 kHz against the energy above it: the higher, the deeper. Nobody has tuned these packs by ear yet; the figures are what the files measure.

Who it suits

People who like a deeper keyboard but find Boulder’s ring too long (a suggestion).

Use it in Teclo

  1. Click the keycap icon in the menu bar to open Teclo’s window.
  2. Pick Pebble in the list of packs, under Mechanical.
  3. Type anywhere. Teclo plays a different sound for a key going down and coming up, and separate sounds for Space, Return and Delete.

Every pack also has its own pair of mouse click sounds, made from the same model. Try the other packs on the sound packs page.

Questions

Which Teclo keyboard pack has the most bass?

Pebble has the most energy below 1 kHz of the nine keyboard packs, with a low/high balance of −7.8 dB; Cushion is next at −8.3 dB.