As an old fart who actually used a typewriter, I must point out that the bell does not ring when you press the carriage return. The bell rings when you are nearing the end of the line to warn you that you are bout to run out of paper.
On carriage return, the sound should be a slow swing of the heavy carriage physically returning.
This is odd, I could have sworn mine rang the bell when the carriage return returned to the start of the line, so it was more of a "swoooosh ding!", but I watched a video and you're right. Very odd.
The bell was rang (rung?) when you were around ten columns away from the right side of the paper, as a notification to the user to manually use the carriage return bar, or use the return key on the fancy electric typewriters.
Our office still has a manual typewriter, and an IBM Selectric.
The bell rings when the Page Stops are reached. These can be manually set on the page. The bell rings, the typist plans for end of line, then they whack the bar and zzzzz-thunk the carriage returns.
Related, "Shift Happens is a beautifully designed history of how keyboards got this way":
> It's the 150th anniversary of the QWERTY keyboard, and Marcin Wichary has put together the kind of history and celebration this totemic object deserves. Shift Happens is a two-volume, 1,200-plus-page work with more than 1,300 photos, researched over seven years and cast lovingly into type and photo spreads that befit the subject.
If you're on macOS, a similar program named Klack[1] was featured on HN recently, too[2]. It's very polished and has a variety of different keyboard sounds among which to choose.
I want to hear that at normal typing speed. I feel like, unless there are a good amount of slightly varied samples, it's going to have that TR-808 repetitive vibe going on ...
I was also put off by the static, repetitive sounds. My suggestion would be to record 5-10 sounds and pick randomly, slightly tuned them up/down with some filtering.
That should really be recorded in stereo and at least 20 samples for each key, possibly at different strength and then some sort of algo that would pick samples depending on how vigorously someone types.
Then that still wouldn't capture the intermodulation etc.
It's a lot of work to actually make it sound remotely realistic.
Maybe the sound should be played in proportionate intervals to typing speed, rather than upon "hits", with the last one somehow cleverly ending with key-up and/or first key-down inevitably absent.
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On carriage return, the sound should be a slow swing of the heavy carriage physically returning.
Those IBM selectrics were overbuilt. They vibrated and hummed when turned on.
The bell rings when the Page Stops are reached. These can be manually set on the page. The bell rings, the typist plans for end of line, then they whack the bar and zzzzz-thunk the carriage returns.
> It's the 150th anniversary of the QWERTY keyboard, and Marcin Wichary has put together the kind of history and celebration this totemic object deserves. Shift Happens is a two-volume, 1,200-plus-page work with more than 1,300 photos, researched over seven years and cast lovingly into type and photo spreads that befit the subject.
* https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/10/shift-happens-is-a-b...
[1] https://tryklack.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37395370
And yet … sometimes …
> daktilo ("typewriter" in Turkish, pronounced "DUCK-til-oh"
(Painfully obvious highlighting, all mine.)
So what we have here is a duck type writer helping you write code?
How much duck type would a duck typer with a duck type writer, type, if a duck typer had a duck type writer to type duck type?
(Citation: Nevermark, re. Dactilo, HN, 2023.)
Ok that’s out of the way.
How much ducktype would a ducktype writer with a duck typewriter, type, if a ducktype writer had a duck typewriter to type ducktype?
Then that still wouldn't capture the intermodulation etc.
It's a lot of work to actually make it sound remotely realistic.
https://github.com/rbanffy/selectric-mode
Does anyone know why "it doesn't work on Wayland"?