WEBVTT 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:05.220 - We're doing. (polythene bag squeaking) There's a reason I'm here and I'm not a sports guy, 00:00:05.220 --> 00:00:08.840 all right. Whoa! 00:00:08.840 --> 00:00:14.400 Look at these. Dude. Oh my God! That's cool. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.100 Look at that. This is the Work Louder keyboard. 00:00:19.100 --> 00:00:22.346 This can't be typical. Can it? - [Someone In Background] Yes. 00:00:22.346 --> 00:00:26.610 They shipped it to us fully assembled. I thought I was gonna have to assemble it. It's a modular keyboard. 00:00:26.610 --> 00:00:33.100 So it's ortho-linear. I am not used to type big. 00:00:34.160 --> 00:00:39.550 Oops. In ortho-lin-near space. 00:00:43.700 --> 00:00:48.320 I prefer full keyboards. I like having my num pad and so on. 00:00:48.320 --> 00:00:51.700 You can turn any of these keys into anything you want. 00:00:51.700 --> 00:00:56.280 It's QMK, which is great and everything you would expect. 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:01.360 Like here's the thing. It's cool that it's modular, 00:01:01.360 --> 00:01:06.060 but all I can really do is like, move this slightly over 00:01:06.060 --> 00:01:09.750 or move this whole thing slightly over and then move this over there. 00:01:09.750 --> 00:01:13.240 I'm not sure how you could make a keyboard any more modular than this. 00:01:13.240 --> 00:01:16.680 Oh, that's cool. This is also a separate thing. See that? 00:01:16.680 --> 00:01:22.000 I could move that here, not that I would want to. The thing that most interested me about this product 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.200 are the dials and these ones they're discreet. 00:01:25.200 --> 00:01:31.360 They're not continuous. And the website says that it's compatible with apps 00:01:31.360 --> 00:01:34.550 like Premier, Photoshop and so on 00:01:34.550 --> 00:01:37.870 and I will put that to the test. So I'm gonna try that out. 00:01:37.870 --> 00:01:42.870 And then they have a QMK mapping GUI. 00:01:42.960 --> 00:01:46.000 Which is nice, 'cause I'm used to just having to do it in text, 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.960 you know, like a notepad sort of a thing. So I'm looking forward to that. 00:01:49.960 --> 00:01:53.450 It's gonna make it a lot easier to like, lay stuff out. 00:01:53.450 --> 00:02:00.090 So something like this definitely appealing to the sort of person who wants to optimize their workflow. 00:02:00.090 --> 00:02:03.490 As far as the dials go, I have no idea. We're just gonna have to find out. 00:02:03.490 --> 00:02:08.910 Dials, why are dials important? Well, basically if you grew up in the nineties 00:02:08.910 --> 00:02:14.100 and remember what it was like using a computer without a scroll wheel on the mouse, it was more annoying. 00:02:14.100 --> 00:02:18.120 It's really nice to be able to like scroll down a webpage. And similarly, 00:02:18.120 --> 00:02:22.860 certain things like volume control are just much better to do with dials 00:02:22.860 --> 00:02:26.210 as opposed to keyboard shortcuts, where you're just having to push the key 00:02:26.210 --> 00:02:29.940 over and over again. And it's not just volume or scrolling on a webpage. 00:02:29.940 --> 00:02:36.820 There's lots of different things that are good to put on a dial as opposed to a key. 00:02:37.420 --> 00:02:42.370 I am going to take off the bottom thingy. Let's take off this, scan me. 00:02:42.370 --> 00:02:47.000 We don't need him. So now we can move this up. 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:50.930 We can move it up halfway or we can move it up the whole way, which is what I'm gonna do. 00:02:50.930 --> 00:02:55.100 Yeah. So you see there's the other circuit board right there. 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:58.653 I don't like where these, where these arrow keys are. 00:02:59.860 --> 00:03:04.330 Oh yeah, there we go. Oh wait. They are RGB. 00:03:04.330 --> 00:03:07.740 Ah, yeah. Oh, I was wrong. It is perky RGB. 00:03:07.740 --> 00:03:14.040 Ta-da! Much better. Although now, I don't like such small keyboards. 00:03:14.040 --> 00:03:18.220 Give me more room to work. What do you think about this sucker? 00:03:18.220 --> 00:03:22.210 - [Man Wearing Cap] I think it looks pretty neat. I like how many knobs it's got. 00:03:22.210 --> 00:03:25.460 Oh, I don't like it (laughs). - What? 00:03:25.460 --> 00:03:28.810 What's wrong then? What's wrong with it. You didn't even start typing. 00:03:29.750 --> 00:03:33.703 - It's the home row feels like, oh, I don't like the layout. 00:03:35.469 --> 00:03:38.774 I've got to think before I type. - Well. - The note pad. 00:03:38.774 --> 00:03:42.130 - You gotta get used to. - The keys are okay. 00:03:42.130 --> 00:03:45.913 They're they're not like, I'm not crazy about them. What I actually liked the most 00:03:45.913 --> 00:03:47.793 is the lively. I love the acrylic base. 00:03:49.010 --> 00:03:52.200 Like I like how it's like a cool, like it's so bare bones. Like it's an acrylic base. - Yeah. 00:03:52.200 --> 00:03:55.920 It's just like a PCB or something here. - Yeah, yeah. - Like that's super awesome. 00:03:55.920 --> 00:03:59.484 - How much is this, $250? 400?. 00:03:59.484 --> 00:04:02.531 (someone in background laughs) That's too much. 00:04:02.531 --> 00:04:06.720 (someone in background laughs) And like, I'm sure it's really good, 00:04:06.720 --> 00:04:10.260 but is it $400 good? 00:04:10.260 --> 00:04:15.690 Oh, we'll see. Thanks to Secret Lab for sponsoring today's video. 00:04:15.690 --> 00:04:20.160 Secret Lab chairs are engineered to keep you incredibly comfortable for long hours at work and play. 00:04:20.160 --> 00:04:23.690 Their new Titan Evo 2022 chair. I'm gonna get that one. 00:04:23.690 --> 00:04:27.310 Keeps you feel uncomfortable for longer. 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There we go. 00:05:16.270 --> 00:05:19.460 You have a bunch of different layers and things that you can do. 00:05:19.460 --> 00:05:25.160 It's a little hard to remember everything. I prefer to have everything just labeled with just one key. 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:28.580 So, you know, keys are staggered because it hearkens back 00:05:28.580 --> 00:05:32.150 from the days of the typewriter. When the little thingy that leads to the thing 00:05:32.150 --> 00:05:38.930 that strikes the key actually needs to physically be aligned. So it's just a thing that we've gotten used to. 00:05:38.930 --> 00:05:43.470 There's really no reason for it. So I totally understand why somebody would wanna go ortho-linear. 00:05:43.470 --> 00:05:46.920 So that's not really a strike against it. It's actually in its favor. 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.960 So it came with this little foot thing on the bottom 00:05:49.960 --> 00:05:54.330 and I don't like it because it makes your hands go up like this. 00:05:54.330 --> 00:05:58.010 I forget what that's called in ergonomic terms. But guess what? 00:05:58.010 --> 00:06:02.600 I put these cute little feet that I just happened to have lying around on the bottom. 00:06:02.600 --> 00:06:07.850 And those worked perfectly. There's a surprisingly vibrant and active community 00:06:07.850 --> 00:06:11.330 around this board. The whole thing was crowdfunded 00:06:11.330 --> 00:06:18.300 and people are like really into this. So, I've had to kind of rethink, 00:06:18.300 --> 00:06:22.820 how I do these product overviews? 00:06:22.820 --> 00:06:26.180 I've so often just been thinking about what's best for me. 00:06:26.180 --> 00:06:32.960 I've been talking to Mike on discord and he told me about all the effort 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:39.330 that he went through talking to lots and lots of people to figure out, what do people actually want 00:06:39.330 --> 00:06:42.740 in their keyboard in this particular niche? 00:06:42.740 --> 00:06:46.880 He's targeting a niche. I'm not in that niche, 00:06:46.880 --> 00:06:52.120 but there's all sorts of interesting decisions here that were made because of the type of person 00:06:52.120 --> 00:06:55.590 who would want this. He says it's for creators/designers. 00:06:55.590 --> 00:06:59.300 I think those terms are too broad. I think you gotta throw in, 00:06:59.300 --> 00:07:04.350 like keyboard enthusiast and person with not much space on their desk 00:07:04.350 --> 00:07:08.580 and person who can stomach having to relearn ortho-linear 00:07:08.580 --> 00:07:11.600 and use like extra modifier keys for everything. 00:07:11.600 --> 00:07:15.900 Because, the one advantage is like, everything is really close together. 00:07:15.900 --> 00:07:19.440 Whereas with my setup, I have to move my hands all over the place, 00:07:19.440 --> 00:07:23.130 even though it's always in the same spot, you know, if you're good, 00:07:23.130 --> 00:07:27.450 you can just do some sort of fancy combination of keys. 00:07:27.450 --> 00:07:32.220 One thing I do like about it is that the interface for changing things is via, 00:07:32.220 --> 00:07:37.890 which is this graphical user interface. It's fairly simple to use, which is good. 00:07:37.890 --> 00:07:42.740 Compare that to what I had to do for my QMK based 00:07:43.640 --> 00:07:50.540 has tool converter right here. And you can see, you know, it's kind of visually laid out, 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:55.540 but it's certainly nothing compared to a straight GUI. 00:07:56.010 --> 00:07:59.420 And of course, you've gotta just write all the texts down yourself. 00:07:59.420 --> 00:08:04.100 You know, it's either gonna be this or, Ooh, this is much nicer. 00:08:04.100 --> 00:08:07.810 I can't really properly evaluate it. So all I can say is like 00:08:07.810 --> 00:08:13.090 what features it does and doesn't have, so perusing the website, for example, 00:08:13.090 --> 00:08:17.900 it kind of looks like this is gonna have API access. 00:08:17.900 --> 00:08:22.050 Like you look here and it kind of strongly implies 00:08:22.050 --> 00:08:25.260 that it has fancy access to Adobe creative cloud, 00:08:25.260 --> 00:08:30.270 DaVinci resolve, Final Cut, Ableton live blender. It has no API access. 00:08:30.270 --> 00:08:36.020 And I really think they should put that on the website. What you're doing is just putting regular keystrokes 00:08:36.020 --> 00:08:41.440 on the dials, which is what I suspected because they are discrete dials. 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.980 Like they, they have obvious steps to them. 00:08:44.980 --> 00:08:48.360 You can always feel when a keystroke is being sent, 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:53.360 which is the right choice for this kind of a use case. 00:08:53.590 --> 00:08:57.446 I particularly enjoyed using one of the dials 00:08:57.446 --> 00:09:00.820 to do undo and redo and Photoshop. There's standard stuff, 00:09:00.820 --> 00:09:04.420 like you can use a dial to increase or decrease 00:09:04.420 --> 00:09:08.550 the size of your brush in Photoshop, for example. 00:09:08.550 --> 00:09:13.230 And I've also got this one with shift where if I hold it down, it'll do the, 00:09:13.230 --> 00:09:17.380 what is that called softness, which is nice. But again, I do have a mac row 00:09:17.380 --> 00:09:22.960 that works way better than this and as much more visual, just using Photoshop's built in keyboard shortcuts. 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:27.810 It's nice, but I already have a thing that's better. But this keyboard really made me appreciate 00:09:27.810 --> 00:09:32.530 the monogram a lot more actually and understand a lot more of the problems 00:09:32.530 --> 00:09:35.590 that go into creating something that is modular, 00:09:35.590 --> 00:09:39.800 like this one and has, in this case, these are not discrete tiles, 00:09:39.800 --> 00:09:42.940 but they do have API access and it's gotten a lot better. 00:09:42.940 --> 00:09:46.500 I, oh, I have a video about the monogram, if you wanna watch that too. 00:09:46.500 --> 00:09:49.500 But this keyboard is seeking to solve different problems, 00:09:49.500 --> 00:09:54.740 right? It's intended as a primary keyboard. I was thinking I'd maybe use it as a secondary keyboard. 00:09:54.740 --> 00:09:59.580 I've got all these secondary things already. It is, there's no reason to do that. 00:09:59.580 --> 00:10:02.580 Even though you can buy it with different key caps, 00:10:02.580 --> 00:10:07.590 some of which are blank. So you can just, I don't know, use your imagination. 00:10:07.590 --> 00:10:11.730 So here Mike says I wasn't comfortable spending 300 bucks on a keyboard I needed to build myself. 00:10:11.730 --> 00:10:16.460 It's all fun and games until you fry your board 'cause you're not familiar with DIY, you know, soldering. 00:10:16.460 --> 00:10:23.690 We're talking here about like, why didn't he make it a hot swappable key switches. 00:10:23.690 --> 00:10:27.890 Most professionals don't have time to be fiddling around with switches. Hence why we picked a good all around switch 00:10:27.890 --> 00:10:31.800 for the pre-built and then, and then offer the DIY people who really want it. 00:10:31.800 --> 00:10:36.660 I was just really impressed by how much research he did 00:10:36.660 --> 00:10:43.000 to determine what people would want in a 40% modular keyboard 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:46.910 that also has little dials on it. And I don't get it, 00:10:46.910 --> 00:10:51.820 but I think it's, it's good. Like it's good for what it is. 00:10:51.820 --> 00:10:56.010 He actually sent me some renders of a potential num pad module, 00:10:56.010 --> 00:11:00.450 which you could put on either side of the keyboard. So that's cool. And then that makes the whole thing more modular 00:11:00.450 --> 00:11:04.750 'cause you could move this one over to here, or you could put that one sideways. 00:11:04.750 --> 00:11:08.670 You could have a bunch of these, if you wanted to. It's kind of cool that you can just choose 00:11:08.670 --> 00:11:13.000 whatever legend you want on here. All right So, you can have blank key caps, 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:17.030 you can have this, you can have that. So that's pretty cute. 00:11:17.030 --> 00:11:21.280 I don't like it, but that doesn't mean it's bad. Yeah, that's it that's, 00:11:21.280 --> 00:11:26.070 I can't, there's nothing more I can say. Other than to give you the information. 00:11:26.070 --> 00:11:31.130 Do 40% people like it? I don't, apparently they do. 40% people, I don't understand you. 00:11:31.130 --> 00:11:33.653 I don't understand. And maybe I never will.