i just got a musician's friend credit card and i don't know what to buy first or the best thing to buy first. i was thinking of a nice 61-key korg trition le. what do you guys think about that? basically i just want to make hip hop beats with all of the material i have stock-piled into my head. i only have a computer, an acoustic guitar, an old yamaha psr 530 keyboard, sound forge, reason, and the free pro tools. i want to build a home studio to produce music for others to sing and rap to . . . and i'll write, produce, mix, record and master. so whatta ya think?
Spend an extra $200 and get a Yamaha Motif 6 instead. Better sounds, better keyboard. Overall, a much better and more usefull instrument. Motif has sampling standard - it is an add on for the Le that costs more.
All Korgs pretty much sound like crap once you turn of the effects processors. Yamaha and Roland ususally give you better waveforms so you don't have to depend on the EFX processors to get what you want.