A friend of mine's daughter is a music student in highschool at a Performing Arts school. She wants to get her a keyboard for Christmas without breaking the bank and she's asked me for recomendations. What she wants is a nice feeling keyboard, preferably 88 keys and a reasonable selection of sounds. What she doesn't need is the sequencer/sampler that most of the keyboards I've looked at have.
I'd like to keep the price down - up to $500 USD. Is this possible?
A possibility I've thought of is a midi controller keyboard + sound module, but that gets complicated, unless the sound module has speakers, etc built in. I'd really like an all in one, but building something is possible too.
This is mostly for practicing, perhaps a bit of performance and for composing the old fashioned way (sitting in front of a piano with pen and paper
)
Suggestions? Thanks!
I'd like to keep the price down - up to $500 USD. Is this possible?
A possibility I've thought of is a midi controller keyboard + sound module, but that gets complicated, unless the sound module has speakers, etc built in. I'd really like an all in one, but building something is possible too.
This is mostly for practicing, perhaps a bit of performance and for composing the old fashioned way (sitting in front of a piano with pen and paper
)Suggestions? Thanks!