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Main Stage 3 sounds superb and cost £26
The Macbook Air’s are tempting bit in all honesty my Laptop is fine so couldn’t justify the swap.
I’d probably connect midi to my Ipad so I could use the garageband sounds at least.
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the Juno DS61 would probably be the more reasonable budget Roland option.
Also on my radar, will have a good look.
How many keys do you want?
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For piano at home I like and use an 88 key Roland A series, for live playing my parts are generally synth and strings so I can use a much smaller and cheaper controller. The Nektar I have was about £45 and although it's mechanically noisy that's not a problem onstage.
Older Yamaha and Casio all in keyboards come up cheap all the time and they can be used as midi controller keyboards with the inbuilt sounds ignored.
Most cheap midi controllers work well for synths and organs but you do miss the feel for piano parts, so depends what the priority is.
I think having both - an 88 key hammer action board and something like a 61 key synth action board is the ideal!
I dont like the VST route - but many swear by it. Dont rule it out but factor in everything you need.
£1000 is relatively budget for me (at the moment).... but I know others that would balk at £100.
Juno DS61, VR-09, MX61 etc.
I don’t need loads of sounds, just decent organs, E.P’s, and a reasonable piano.
I don’t need loads of features either - Mod wheel, transpose octave up/down.
I could go VST route or even use my ipad but seems like a messy solution getting audio in and midi out, would need another interface I would imagine.
I’m currently borrowing a Roland XP-80, that’s a bit big, heavy and overcomplicated for what I need. Sounds are reasonable but I would imagine sounds have got better since the 90’s.
What I’d really like is another Nord Electro 61 but that is too expensive to justify.
It's class-compliant, too, so it would also work directly with an iPad via Apple's connection widget.