I’m really not that much of a fan of Cubic. I picked up Cubic Jukebox about the 3rd time it was on MD since I really enjoy the Jukebox colorway. My complaints are as follows:
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Sharper edges - edges of the top surface have a much pointier corner than GMK does and I found it less than comfortable when I tend to fatfinger keys.
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Legend quality - this is a pretty big one. Along with pretty severe consistency and thickness issues across the legends, there’s the fact that the legends/typeface/font seemed to differ so heavily across key “groups” in a way that just didn’t look like they worked together.
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Compatibility - layout compatibility with the set felt underwhelming at best. Not only would you have to buy another kit if you wanted some pretty basic stuff, there’s just the fact that support for layouts such as 65/75/1800 was just nonexistent. Included in this is how much it actually cost to get more than just very basic compat. ~$100 for kits to fit my 96key plus novelties, more than I really wanted to pay for what I got and way more than I’d ever want to pay again for caps of this quality.
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Cap quality/consistency - along with legend consistency, consistency across the caps in the form of thickness was amusingly absent. I actually made a spreadsheet of keys as I put them on a board and it was amazing how much caps in the same row could differ, or even how much a single cap could differ on its measurements. I guess thickness really doesn’t affect the usage of the set that much, but it’s something that’s brought up a lot.
There’s also the fact that these caps were very tight on my Box Jades, which we now know they’re part of the issue, but tighter than any other caps I’d used and tight enough to possibly cause issues.
So alltogether, the only way I’d consider buying another Cubic set is if they fixed the legend issues, created better compatibility perhaps including a GMK-style base kit, and offered sets with better colorways than their “stock” selection, all for price more reasonable than Jukebox had to be had at.