This short article was originally posted on January 10, 2021 when this publication was hosted on Wordpress, and was then published here on May 25, 2022.
This is fun to play with, but I'm not sure I want to keep it running full time. It does, however, make me want to hook up one of my Unicomp buckling spring keyboards for the real thing.
I found it a while ago, on a HN thread about a different keyboard sound generator, and in my limited experience of those, bucklespring sounds the best and has the lowest latency.
I recommend playing around with the -s option to get a sound that seems to come from the right place in your keyboard, and the -g option to change the volume.
The one problem is that it can't register modifier keys, but all other keys work.
I've been using Bucklespring for a few years now, and I'm not sure how I've never even thought to check the man page to see what options it had, lol. Thanks for sharing!
This is fun to play with, but I'm not sure I want to keep it running full time. It does, however, make me want to hook up one of my Unicomp buckling spring keyboards for the real thing.
Bucklespring is great!
I found it a while ago, on a HN thread about a different keyboard sound generator, and in my limited experience of those, bucklespring sounds the best and has the lowest latency.
I recommend playing around with the -s option to get a sound that seems to come from the right place in your keyboard, and the -g option to change the volume.
The one problem is that it can't register modifier keys, but all other keys work.
I've been using Bucklespring for a few years now, and I'm not sure how I've never even thought to check the man page to see what options it had, lol. Thanks for sharing!