VARMILO MUSE65 HE

Why a magnetic keyboard?

An average human’s reaction time is 300-500ms, while a pro gamer can reach 200ms through training. The total trip time for a key press to register after the finge-cap contact can however easily reach >100 ms, much of it spent on the key descending to the actuation point. A magnetic switch cuts this trip by half by separating the process of actuation, accomplished at the speed of light through the Hall effect, from the tactile feedback, which can take as long as you want afterward to assure your finger of its occurrence. And if you are drawn to extreme performance, then the infamous rapid trigger mode is definitely for you.

Accurate to 0.02mm

0.10mm, 4.00mm, or exactly 0.02 mm...with both high dynamic range and travel resolution Muse65 got your back whether you want to be the fastest gun in the West or tune your rhythm in sync with that particular spell's cooldown timer.

Rapid Trigger

Ready for the next move before the impact of the first even strikes the enemy? Just 0.1mm of break and your trusted companion will get it done, and done again...and again. Under the rapid trigger mode, Muse65 HE can handle even the most complex maneuvering that you can come up with so seamlessly and effortlessly like it is an extension of your nerve system or something.

Dynamic Keystroke

High precision and minimized errors also enable true analog input, as you can now pack a recorded amount of information and up to 4 actions in one stroke. Combos, spellcastings, and macros….can all become chords in the music that follows your finger, whose tempo you will decide among 2 positions out of 40 in the press, and another 2 in the release.

SOCD

Back-cover input

Enhance key priority, upon key release, automatically trigger the previous key, achieving flawless quick-stop functionality.

as low as 0.2ms

The switches are only half of the story, every component in the signal’s pathway from the switch must run reliably at an even higher speed to fully unleash its potential. The requirements are staggering, the specs of the hardware even more so: 8000Hz polling rate and only 0.2ms of total latency from the key activation to its registering….

5 independent Hall Effect chips

Many little, subtle things need to be gotten right before a mere 0.02mm of change in travel can be properly resolved, not just detected. Even slight vibrations can cause big deviations in readings, and so do disturbances in the baseline voltage.

In Muse65 HE, not only did we design the Tray mounting structure, the electronics, and the error-controlling process for every component all around the need to reduce errors and inter-key inconsistencies, but the assembly and testing in the supply chain also need to be managed accordingly.

The <0.01mm error produced by the whole approach makes fine-tuning the actuation distance useful for the users for the first time.

RGB and HE coexist

The race to a lower latency starts when the transverse voltage builds up in the Hall effect sensors, individually packaged and powered from the LEDs they retain their sensitivity even when the RGB effects are maxed out. Similar arrangments at the end of the signals' journey ensure the MCU is at full throttle handling their arrivals, utilizing a self-developed filtering algorithm that picks them at industry-leading accuracy and speed.

VARMILO HE Driver

Settings and parameters editing are vital to the magneto-mechanical keyboard user experience. Every single parameter affecting the system performance is tweakable, and the tweaks are visible in the Dashboard UI in real-time as they take effects, such as the per-key rapid-trigger/sensitivity annotations on the keyboard preview. Global configurations can be saved as layers, to be fired up later.

Aluminum Plate

Being the second structural keyboard design to accommodate magneitc switches, just like our Victory 67 HE, our laser focus on travel accuracy leads to the elimination of a large number of popular structrual choices, such as the famously soft gasket mount and PC/POM plates. The now severely constrained solution space revolves around the aluminum plate and tray mount, and compels us to make bold choices to preserve the sound quality.

Tray Mount with 15 screws

Silicone paddings and wraps placed around mounting screws and other frame and plate contact points, helps producing a gasket mount like sound consistency, and none of its deformation induced errors.

Sound engineering on sound foundations.

It is just two porons with one aluminum plate sandwiched, plus one silicone anechoic sheet. There is no secret here, as clear as the sound the keyboard makes. Yet you wonder why you haven't heard a sound like this from another magnetic keyboard?