ROCCAT Vulcan TKL Pro Tenkeyless Linear Optical Titan Switch PC Gaming Keyboard with Per-key AIMO RGB Lighting, Anodized Aluminum Top Plate, and Detachable USB-C Cable, Black

Great product and the perfect size!

but press feedback is relatively loose

Pros - Wonderful, beautiful AIMO lighting that is by far the best RGB Ive ever used. - Fun to type on, nice feeling keycaps, lowish profile - Gorgeous to look at - Volume dial is nice, along with the mute button - Nice media function keys built in, although dedicated buttons wouldve been more welcome Cons - You need Roccat Swarm software running in the background to use the beautiful AIMO lighting system. This means I cant use it for my work laptop (cant download outside software) so Im stuck with generic lighting :( - Typing is loud (louder than blue clicky keys to some degree). Spacing and the switches makes my fingers hurt after long periods of time and I make WAY more typos on this than other keyboards (of which I have many, because I love them) - Volume is a turn dial and not something easier like a rolling dial like Logitech G915tkl. I prefer the rolling dial because you can use it with one finger. This Vulcan tkl requires two fingers at least and is heavy to use. Since I have a pull out keyboard draw, its hard to reach. Overall this is a beautiful keyboard to behold but I just cant find a good practical use for it as a main or long-typing driver.

I had the regular tkl version of this keyboard and this is better. The lighting is cool. I like it

Unless you are thinking about switching out your keyboard every time you want to do anything OTHER than gaming, dont buy this keyboard. The short travel cause too many accidental keystrokes. Actually even during gaming I find myself hitting E when I am trying to reload (R). Fine, perhaps that is just me and my typing habits arent conducive to a perfect user experience when it comes to this keyboard. Here is the other problem I ran into. One of my keys (;) randomly (or I just have never noticed) became sticky. No i have not spilled anything on it or had food on it nor did I touch the keyboard with dirty hands. I could not figure out how to clean it besides taking it all apart. Now this was where this keyboard really pissed me off. (or the a-hole of a design team, rather) They put a screw underneath the rubber feet. I suppose they were not planning for this keyboard to be user serviceable or cleanable. So, I opened the damn thing up and found some residue on the back of the PCB (not somewhere I could dirty). I think that was what contributed to the sticky key. By the way, I couldnt find any repair guide online but you CAN remove the clear cap from the back by pushing in the tabs from either side which will allow you to gain access to the spring, rail and the cylinder... Anyways, since this keyboard is my first and last mechanical keyboard, Im going to try to make it last (for the pretty penny Ive paid). Not sure if lubing up a keyboard is something that ALL mechanical keyboard users find themselves doing... Suppose I am learning. Quick Summery: The lighting - boring without having to install the program. Ive never found RGB to be an important part of the computing/gaming experience. Sure as F wasnt about to make it a fashion statement. This keyboard did NOT change my mind. Noise - Well, there are no quiet long-travel keyboards (not to my knowledge. I thought at least with optical switches Id abstain myself from the narcissistic clickery and spare the ears of whoever is on the other end of the voice call. Frankly my computer is also located in my acoustically treated studio. There is just no getting away from the plastic on plastic auditory fckery. Macro - Nah, not flexible enough. HEY rotary encodes are cool but not when they are limited to ONE purpose. Get creative dev team. Cool factor - Besides the occasional reconciliation brought on by my non-computer oriented friends wow you have one of those light up keyboards?! Ive found myself drowning in self loathing for having bought into this idiotic trend of self indulgence. No. This keyboard will not make you cooler. Not if you are honest with yourself. Ergonomic - Coming from a shitty HP low profile keyboard, Ive found myself needing to buy a wrist rest with how high this keyboard forces you to bend your wrist. Dont want carpal tunnel? Get a thinner keyboard. Never had numbness with my HP keyboard until I switched. I regret my purchase but obviously your mileage will very. May luck be in your favour.

It is a very nice keyboard, but not worth $160. I ended up with a Razer Huntsman for almost half that much.

For starters, this is a gorgeous keyboard - from the RGB, key fonts and symbols, frame etc. However, the typing experience is horrible Understandably mechanical switches are clicky to various degrees depending on the switch, but this keyboard gives bottoming out a whole new meaning. Not to mention the plastic clack on the return of the Cherry reds. If you like the feel and sound of two pieces of plastic pounding together this keyboard fits the bill. And although the unconventional design layout for the keys looks great, I just could not get used to it and was making too many typing errors. On the other hand, I also have an Alienware 510K with the Cherry low profile reds and love it. I threw on a set of clear 40A O-rings to soften the already subtle bottom-out clack even more and the typing experience and sound is awesome.

Not a fan, there is a large gap between the keys which usually results in mis hits. If they used better keycaps this would be a 4 or 5 star review. But for $150 it is not worth it at all. Not even doubleshot keycaps.

Really nice keyboard

Concerning the ROCCAT Vulcan TKL Pro: I am downgrading my review from 5 stars to 2. Why? In trying setup a default illumination scheme, I found this paragraph: Without Swarm you are still able to use your devices, but you are missing out on features such as illumination controls, re-assigning keys and buttons, customizing sensitivities or creating macros and profiles. A custom illumination (for say WASD etc. keys) can be setup only with Swarm running. Thats fine. If Swarm is killed/ended, the keyboard illumination (at least) persists. Thats good. But after power-cycling the keyboard, it is again necessary to run Swarm to reinstate the setup. Thats not OK. So its not possible setup the keyboard on Windows and then move the keyboard over to a Mac or Linux system to at least get a preferred illumination because Swarm doesnt runs on the latter systems and the illumination doesnt survive a power-cycle. This also means you cant use it on a Steam Deck (which is Linux). Thumbs down. I like the keyboard, but I dont really like the default animations nor the solid green. I can somewhat understand requiring Swarm to have keystroke programmable macros, but custom illumination should not require Swarm. I want a keyboard with persistent and default illuminations that will work on any computer; not having this is a deal breaker for me. There are other decent keyboards that do what this one does. Roccat support is terrible. In trying to contact Roccat, I notice that the support.roccat.con website is plagued with SSL certificate problems. So you have to either allow invalid SSL certificates or use lame browsers to view the support page.