Driver

There is no software driver support for the Matias Quiet Pro, with all functionality being hardware based. As such, I have chosen to combine the Driver and Performance pages into one.

Performance

There is full N-key rollover USB here, as Aqua's test confirms. Similarly, no key chatter was detected on all the keys using Switch Hitter. The key not lit up in the program is simply not present on the keyboard here.

There is not much else to describe here which you have not already seen - the Matias Quiet Pro is a fairly standard keyboard in that it does everything expected of a QWERTY keyboard, but better than most office keyboards. I have mixed thoughts about the implementation of a second tab in the Num Pad instead of Num Lock - on one hand, the tab button here makes it very easy to navigate spreadsheets and tables for data entry, but on the other, the Num Lock being not as easily accessible with the same hand means the secondary functions to help navigate are not as easy to use with one hand anymore. During the testing period, I did find myself using tab more often combined with my left hand for the arrow keys, but it was not comfortable to use, so this is not necessarily an improvement in my books.


The Quiet Click Alps-inspired switches are very close to my favorites switches now - top three even, if I say so myself. I personally prefer slightly heavier and tactile non-clicky switches, so these fit in very well with a metal leaf the housing brushes past on the downstroke to create clear tactile feedback. Pictured above is a photo of one of these switches disassembled by MechanicalKeyboard.com who sell the switches by themselves for customers in the USA, whereas Matias themselves also sells them individually. They actuate at 60 g (58.9 cN) at ~2.2 mm of travel with the tactile bump from the metal leaf felt slightly earlier at 1.9-2.0 mm. Bottoming out takes less force once past the tactile bump at ~35 g and a total travel distance of 4 mm.


Here, we can see a render of the switch with the various components inside, created from images found on the Matias product page for the very switches linked previously. There is indeed a transparent housing as we saw before, and there is a rubber dampener that reduces noise on both the downstroke and upstroke. This is very similar to what Cherry did later with their MX Silent switches as well.


As always, the sound of a keyboard is based on more than just the switch type. So when comparing sound clips, consider the keyboard as a whole. In this case, I have provided above an example sound clip of me typing on the Matias Quiet Pro sample at ~105 WPM. For context, you can find sound clips from other keyboards here, including those with tactile switches. I did bottom out here, as the non-linear force with travel results in not bottoming out being a harder task than I anticipated. In terms of actuation, these Quiet Click switches ended up with an average actuation force of 59.02 cN averaged across twenty keys on the sample provided. Bottoming out seemed regular too, and nothing jumped out at me that was any different from the rest.