Keyboards

[Who's the Boss?]

Can anyone recommend me a good synthesizer for 300-400$?

Needs to be touch sensitive Looking for atleast 61 keys

[clairvoyant]

To be honest unless you stumble upon a used one you probably won't find one.

Alesis Micron is $399 and solid, but only 37 keys.

Roland Juno-D or Roland E09 could be your best bets, but they are both at $495 and $449, or the Yamaha S03 for $495 as well

[Draven Grey]

E-MU Proteus MPS + Orchestral is still a great synth after all these years. Worth looking into. It really depends on what type of sounds you're looking for though.

[Who's the Boss?]

I just want something I can use with Native Instruments akoustik piano

[mutant!]

well then you don't want a synth. a synth makes sounds. since you want your pc to make sounds, you just need a controller keyboard so you can tell the pc what to do.

i like m-audio boards. yes.

[Draven Grey]

Start looking around for a Fatar SL880. A lot of people have said that it's the best feeling weighted controller around. You have to get one used though.

M-Audio's weighted keys are horrible. Great on the non-weighted though.

[landrickromance]

Anyone know if the alesis photon X25 is any good?

[jazzstrut]

Elton John used Roland keyboards.

[mutant!]

also fatar isn't called fatar anymore, they're studiologic now.

[Brain]

Ye, orland is great.

[Krash100]

I just started playing synth about a year ago and I got a microKorg analog synth for about $270 on ebay - sells new for about $400. They keys are small and un-weighted but this thing sounds as good as any expensive digital synth. It's great for an intermediate player and has done wonders fleshing out my bands sound.

[mutant!]

since we're just talking random keyboard talk, i jammed with my prospective new band today, on a shiny new yamaha motif x8. bad as.