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Linguist · 11-27-2005, 11:20 AM

What's your budget and how serious does he plan to get into playing? If he plans to hook it up to a laptop and will be downloading samples/soft synths then I'd recommend to get a high quality MIDI controller. It will still have many cool sounds, and will not be very expensive

I'm impartial to Kurzweil keyboards myself. They have a very sick triple strike grand piano patch.. blows everything other than DVD samples away.
The way I've seen it is that you have 4 major brands: Kurzweil, Roland, Korg, Yamaha

Here's my opinion, it's based on the fact that I only like weighted keys. I hate the light feel of the non-weighted keys:
If you're looking to spend ~1.5k then get Kurzweil PC2X or Yamaha S90. Both very good choices and will be hooked up to the laptop with no problem. They got a plethora of good sounds to boot.
If you wanna go a little bit more expensive, Kurzweil K2600 is considered to be one of the best keyboards out there, it can do ANYTHING sound-wise. They have dropped in price recently since the model has been around for quite some time. Korg Triton is a good choice too. Usually professional musicians have both K2600 and Triton since they keyboards complement themselves very nicely. Korg's pads kick much ass.

If you wanna go less expensive, these ones have unweighted keys and I'd recommend them in a heartbeat. All of them are older models (Trinity is 10 years old!), but they're awesome.
Korg X5D - oldie but goodie.
Korg N364 - same!
Korg Trinity - triton's predecessor.
Korg Karma - AWESOME for playing around and fairly new! You may want to take a look into it. If you don't want weighted keys then I bet your son will LOVE this one.
There's also one very cool Roland model with 61 keys, the name escapes me.

I haven't been in touch with music industry for about a year-year and a half, so perharps somethign slick and inexpensive came out, but you won't be disappointed with any of the above choices

EDIT: before buying a keyboard, read ONLINE REVIEWS. They are very helpful

11-27-2005, 11:20 AM
Linguist Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Toronto, ON Posts: 1,706	What's your budget and how serious does he plan to get into playing? If he plans to hook it up to a laptop and will be downloading samples/soft synths then I'd recommend to get a high quality MIDI controller. It will still have many cool sounds, and will not be very expensive I'm impartial to Kurzweil keyboards myself. They have a very sick triple strike grand piano patch.. blows everything other than DVD samples away. The way I've seen it is that you have 4 major brands: Kurzweil, Roland, Korg, Yamaha Here's my opinion, it's based on the fact that I only like weighted keys. I hate the light feel of the non-weighted keys: If you're looking to spend ~1.5k then get Kurzweil PC2X or Yamaha S90. Both very good choices and will be hooked up to the laptop with no problem. They got a plethora of good sounds to boot. If you wanna go a little bit more expensive, Kurzweil K2600 is considered to be one of the best keyboards out there, it can do ANYTHING sound-wise. They have dropped in price recently since the model has been around for quite some time. Korg Triton is a good choice too. Usually professional musicians have both K2600 and Triton since they keyboards complement themselves very nicely. Korg's pads kick much ass. If you wanna go less expensive, these ones have unweighted keys and I'd recommend them in a heartbeat. All of them are older models (Trinity is 10 years old!), but they're awesome. Korg X5D - oldie but goodie. Korg N364 - same! Korg Trinity - triton's predecessor. Korg Karma - AWESOME for playing around and fairly new! You may want to take a look into it. If you don't want weighted keys then I bet your son will LOVE this one. There's also one very cool Roland model with 61 keys, the name escapes me. I haven't been in touch with music industry for about a year-year and a half, so perharps somethign slick and inexpensive came out, but you won't be disappointed with any of the above choices EDIT: before buying a keyboard, read ONLINE REVIEWS. They are very helpful Last edited by Linguist; 11-27-2005 at 11:23 AM..