Can I stop the keypress beep on my Kinesis Advantage keyboard?

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I'm a bit of an ergo freak and recently bought a Kinesis Advantage keyboard. The manual says to press Program+\ but that doesn't stop the keyboard's speaker making that awful noise; in fact it changes nothing :/

Does anyone here have any ideas before I give in and contact Kinesis?

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 11 '14 at 21:20

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In the end, I just opened her up and pulled the piezo speaker off with pliers. Works great now.

answered Jul 11 '14 at 21:20

Chuppa Chump

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 02 '21 at 19:12

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You can use the following on an Advantage2 keyboard to disable the beep/click sound:

press and hold progm + tap F8

If you want it back repeat the same sequence.

source: Advantage2 Keyboard FAQs page

answered Dec 02 '21 at 19:12

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 20 '20 at 22:16

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see How do you turn off the “beep” & “click” sounds of the keyboard? enter link description here

To disable the “click” noise, press and hold the Progrm key and tap the piples/backslash key (the key directly to the right of the letter “P”).

To disable the “beep” noise, press and hold the Progrm key and tap the hyphen/underscore key (the key directly below Progrm).

answered Jan 20 '20 at 22:16

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Advantage2 - https://kinesis-ergo.com/support/advantage2/ – crobicha Oct 13 '20 at 20:05

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 07 '22 at 18:32

I have the Kinesis Advantage 2 - the instruction manual and previously accepted answer gave me no such luck. I have since learned the following:

Toggle KEYCLICK status: progm + F8
Toggle TOGGLE TONE status: progm + shift + F8

To see the current status of these toggles:

open any text buffer
progm + Esc

note: i turned off karabiner-elements (my system-level key re-mapper of choice) before switching these settings - I haven't explored what effects a remap of Caps Lock & Esc might have on this functionality

score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Feb 13 '14 at 17:58

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Have you remapped your \ key? If so, you have to press the original location of the backslash key for it to work. (Should be between the QWERTY quote and hyphen.)

edited Feb 13 '14 at 17:58

Kevin Panko

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answered Feb 13 '14 at 16:06

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It was a long time ago now, but no. I never remapped any keys on that thing. I had reset it entirely a few times in the process of trying to get the sound to stop. I _still_ use that keyboard even now. Well worth the money! – Chuppa Chump Jul 28 '18 at 19:10

Can I stop the keypress beep on my Kinesis Advantage keyboard?

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