I remember that since the first mechanical keyboard appeared on the desktop, the membrane keyboard has never been touched again. Up to now, I have almost forgotten the feel of the keyboard except the mechanical keyswitch. Except for sometimes taking the notebook to go out for emergency use, I use the keyboard on the notebook, and I don't use the mechanical keyswitch at other times. Once I use the touch of the keys brought by the mechanical keyboard, I can't go back, Over the years, with the development of the e-sports industry, the mechanical keyboard has become the standard on the desktop of most E-sports players. In order to meet the needs of the players, manufacturers have made a lot of efforts in the backlight of the mechanical keyboard. We have seen too many RGB keyswitch in general. The Vulcan series mechanical keyboard of ice leopard adopts the open design of the key cap, which greatly improves the backlight brightness and the overall effect, Let's share the experience of using vulcan121 full color mechanical keyboard.

Unpacking appearance

 First of all, let's start with unpacking. The Vulcan 121 full-color mechanical keyboard is packaged in a full-color paper box. The front side is a rendering of the keyboard, and the upper right corner is pasted with a switch label. The keyboard is equipped with 16.8 million color single key adjustable Titan key switch. The first keyboard uses Titan red keyswitch, and the trigger key range is 1.4 mm.

The back of the package can see the disassembly drawing of Titan red keyswitch and several highlights of keyboard.

Vulcan121 is equipped with an independent detachable palm holder. The palm holder and keyboard are connected by magnetic suction. The magnetic suction contact is invisible outside the keyboard. The magnetic suction force is moderate. The palm holder can be automatically absorbed near the edge of the keyboard. The design of no snap makes the installation and disassembly of the palm holder very simple.

In addition to the instruction manual, warranty card and bill of materials, three roccat stickers are attached to the keyboard, one big and two small. Players can paste them in the required positions, such as the chassis, desktop and so on, to increase the atmosphere of E-sports and the sense of faith.

The first feeling of taking out the keyboard is that the thickness of the base of the keyboard is well controlled. On the premise of steel plate, the base of the keyboard is very thin, with a fully open switch design, so the length of the key cap is small. Compared with the key cap of ordinary mechanical keyboard, it is only half the length, but the overall height of the key switch has not changed, so there is no great change in the feel of the keys, There is no need to re adapt. The shortened key cap reduces the weight, which is beneficial to the sensitivity of key trigger.

Remove the key cap to see the keyswitch body. The upper part of the keyswitch body exposed outside the steel plate is completely transparent. When the backlight is on, the light transmission effect is good. The light can be evenly distributed around the keyswitch body. In the middle is the red keyswitch. Friends who are used to mechanical keyboards all know that the steel plate of mechanical keyboards can improve the rebound feel of keys, protect the key keyswitch, and avoid the damage caused by keyboard falling, There are satellite keyswitch on both sides of the long key position to increase the balance of keys. The key cap is relatively short, so the key extractor is not needed, and the key cap can be pulled out directly with fingers.

The keyboard uses a connector with braided skin, and the USB plug has logo on both sides.

The design of the bottom of the keyboard is simple, with parameters and certification plates in the middle. Two anti-skid pads run through the whole keyboard. The one-stage height bracket has no water outlet from the bottom. The front of the keyboard is a sealed dust-proof design. If you accidentally splash liquid, you will not easily enter the keyboard. Three magnetic metal parts at the front of the keyboard can be seen at the bottom.

Key layout

The layout of 108 full-size + 4 multimedia keys is adopted for the ice leopard vulcan121 full color mechanical keyboard. The functions of macro, multimedia and preset switching of the keyboard are realized by FN + ordinary keys. The keyboard is clean and tidy from the overall appearance. The back plate of metal drawing sets off the metal and Mechanical sense of the keyboard, and the color matching of black and grey sets off the fighting sense.

The multimedia control area is equipped with a paragraph type volume knob, which can adjust the volume by rotating, and switch the adjustment mode with the FX key in the multimedia keyboard area. It can also control the backlight brightness of the keyboard. Each paragraph light is rotated to adjust one brightness until it goes out. In fact, it is convenient to control the backlight and volume in use, and the knob with paragraph feeling feels good.

 The volume key and the FX light key of the multimedia keyboard are on alternately. The button on represents the current controllable function of the knob. The key switch also has a click feeling.

The preset light of keyboard has 4 on-board memories, which can be switched by key combination FN + F1 ~ F4.

 More shortcut functions can be quickly called out through FN + F5 ~ F6, and FN + F9 ~ F12 is the multimedia playback control function.

The keyboard can preset 6 custom keys and macro settings. The M1 ~ M6 keys are also integrated in the keypad. At the same time, the game mode keys and the scroll keys share the same key position.

Lighting effect

After the keyboard is lit, the most noticeable is the design of the open RGB keyswitch. From the side view, the keyboard will be illuminated, and the crystal clear effect of the shaft body on the steel plate can be clearly seen.

Titan keyswitch, which can set the lighting effect independently, has the highest color value among the mechanical keyboards currently used. From a larger side point of view, the lighting effect is better.

In order to better experience the Aimo intelligent lighting system of ice leopard peripherals, we need to download the special driver software: swarm. Through the software, we can control the buttons and lighting scheme of the whole set of peripherals. The theme background of the operation interface of the software is black, which is also a design style full of fighting sense.

In order to better experience the Aimo intelligent lighting system of ice leopard peripherals, we need to download the special driver software: swarm. Through the software, we can control the buttons and lighting scheme of the whole set of peripherals. The theme background of the operation interface of the software is black, which is also a design style full of fighting sense.

In the light adjustment interface, we can see that a variety of preset light modes are listed in the drop-down box for players to switch with one button. If you don't like these preset light effects, players can customize the light effects of each button.