I don’t know where this post should go but I’ll try here. I doubt it’ll happen or anyone else would find a use for it maybe but…
Would like to see some blue, yellow, purple square button replacements available on the polyend shop for SYNTH to put below the screen if they’re not too hard to replace?
They put colored ones on trackers and there’s a color one on plays as well, so I am sure they can do this for SYNTH too. To be honest I don’t know why they didn’t. Yes the colors are on the screen but some places don’t show it when navigating and obviously after awhile we’ll remember where things are, but still seeing the synth / grid colors at a fast pace below the screen equals a faster work flow when we’re switching between things.
Having all buttons black could either be an aesthetic decision or a way of keeping production cost down, I don’t know. But I agree it would be nice to be able to customise the button colours. Not only on the Synth.
You probably won’t find any 3rd party keycap replacements, as they dimensions of the caps are tailored to the Polyend devices.
Someone could probably model and 3D print new keycaps.
There’s definitely a potential source of extra revenue for Polyend here, if they started selling replacement keycaps set in fancy new colours (Oooh! You got the exclusive golden buttons for your Tracker? Only 10 sets of those keycaps were ever made!)
At night, with the very dim light of my studio, the brightness of the pads, and my current lack of memory muscle, I found myself trying to find the right knob in the 100% black 3x3 knob grid. The point of these stickers is only to locate these knobs, and the colors are irrelevant.
Maybe they wouldn’t be needed if there would be a setting to dim the light of the pads? Or maybe there is a business opportunity in 3D-printing colored knobs as well.
Since they are in use in actual keyboards, keycap designs already exist in Thingiverse, e.g. this one, and this one
So if you want to 3d-print your own keycaps, the hardest part–designing a stem that actually fits–is already out of the way. All you have to do is correct the dimensions of the upper part, where you don’t have to be as exact.
When all you want to do is color-code the 3 synth buttons and the shift button, you don’t even need to add text to it.
