Inexpensive with 88 weighted keys?

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fierywater

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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? :)
 
You won't find "inexpensive" and "weighted keys" in the same package.
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=key/search/detail/base_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/g=key/search/detail/base_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/g=key/search/detail/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)
 
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.
 
fierywater said:
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? :)
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Look for a Kurzweil K2000
 
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. :)
 
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