Inexpensive with 88 weighted keys?

[fierywater]

As the title says, I need an inexpensive synth with 88 weighted keys. Preferably, I'd like to have a pitch bend wheel or ribbon controller as well. Good piano sounds are a plus, but I only need them passable.

Suggestions?

[prestomation]

You won't find "inexpensive" and "weighted keys" in the same package.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/...se_pid/709203/

As far as i know, that's the cheapest weighted 88key controller, and it's coming in at $500. And that's with no sounds.

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/...se_pid/707440/
I have no idea what your budget is, but this is a well known keyboard. Great action and (supposidly) one of the best piano sounds you can find.


EDIT: There's actually a new version of that first keyboard I posted
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/...base_id/135469
It's supposed to have great action and has sounds built in, for only $100 more. It is new, though, and thus fairly unknown(there's a thread on this page about it)

[SKYflyer]

http://www.zzounds.com/item--CASPX100

or the upgraded version with pitch bend:
http://www.zzounds.com/item--CASPX400

I have the upgraded version (px400) and it sounds nice, and the weighted keys arnt bad either. A bit lighter than my baby grand piano but very nice. The piano sound sounds fine, and i also like the 60s electric piano and drawbar organ sounds.

[fierywater]

Heh, I probably should've said a budget. I was thinking under $600 as "inexpensive."

Thanks for the replies. Someone responded in the other thread that the M-Audio ProKeys' action was like that of another controller M-Audio makes, which is to say, awful. I had my hopes up on that, sadly.

[fraserhutch]

Originally Posted by fierywater

As the title says, I need an inexpensive synth with 88 weighted keys. Preferably, I'd like to have a pitch bend wheel or ribbon controller as well. Good piano sounds are a plus, but I only need them passable.

Suggestions?

Look for a Kurzweil K2000

[dragonworks]

you can probably pick up an alesis QS8 for under 5 hundred. I see them going for that now and then. Seen one for 350.00.
Has a Fatar action, I like mine despite what some people say.