Hi all,
I'm in the early stages of setting up a home studio for the purposes of professional composing. To begin with I'll be attempting to produce professional-level, polished pop music recordings and composing classical music in my spare time, whilst also regularly practising and occasionally performing piano music.
I am looking for a keyboard under £600 ($950) with the following requirements but I am a bit confused at the moment as to what to buy, does anyone have any recommendations?...
-- 88 keys
-- realistic fully weighted action (plus if possible - touch control, so that other instruments can be played on it that might not suit a piano-type hammer action)
-- portable
-- compatible with a realistic soft and sustain pedal
-- full midi capability with zero or near to zero latency
-- compatible with the following equipment/software: MacBook 2.1 (2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 1GB 667MHz DDR2-SDRAM 2GHz processor speed); Edirol UA-25 USB Audio Interface; GarageBand 3.0.4; recent Sibelius or other similar software
-- if a concert/stage/digital piano, it must also be compatible with modules or software packages that can produce ultra-realistic vintage keys/orchestral sounds
-- if a midi controller keyboard, it must also be performable without always hooking it up to a computer: in other words, I would like to be able to run it straight into any amp such as a hi-fi amp, or through a small manual sound module such as the Alesis NanoPiano then into an amp. This would be for the purposes of practising at home and occasionally playing live. It would also hopefully have a headphone socket so I didn't have to annoy the neighbours.
Is there a keyboard out there with all these features or am I wishing for the impossible?
I would be most grateful for any suggestions...
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