Keyboard Synthesizer or MIDI Keyboard? advice needed.

hamertime

Hello,

I am interested in creating my own big beat (chemical brothers, fatboy slim) genre music.

Basically I am wondering what equipment should I buy. I was thinking of buying a secondhand Roland Fantom Synthesizer but a friend suggested that I should just buy a MIDI Keyboard as I could do the synth stuff on my computer.

My thoughts are it might be easier to create music having a keyboard synth as appose to doing on a PC, as the synth will have a lot of different sounds to use and my be hard finding these on a PC.

Can anyone offer their advice on what is the best option i.e. which option would be the easiest to create music with?

I don’t mind spending the money on a good keyboard synth if it will be a lot easier to create music and save me a lot of time.

Also what other equipment would I need to get apart from software? And also which software would be best for this genre i.e Cubase, Reason Logic?

I am a complete beginner so any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks you in advance.

Lee

Celosbeats

i think reason and a midi keyboard would be perfect for u.......

Reason 4 and a mAudio Keyboard...anyoneee

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AdayInThLifeGAZ

you can get keyboards that have MIDI connections but have all the synths of a regular keyboard, id get one of them, for VST id just get logic 8 or summet, we use apple logic 8 at collage and its got a few synths on it and you can upload your own samples and set what note it is to use with midi, if you already have some samples from other programmes it will find them for you aswel in the search bar, comes with lots of loops aswel