Sorry sorry sorry if this isn't the correct board, I have a tendency to assume I'm getting it right, and not (though I'm relatively certain this would be it).
Anyway.. Okay, have a job lined out (First one, starting this Wednesday!), and aside from saving up for necessities like transportation and the like, I'd love to put a little back for a synthesizer. Nothing super flashy, but not something I'll be putting away once I become more learned. So I want it to have plenty capabilities, as long as it doesn't take more than a couple months to fully wrap my head around it. Or mostly wrap my head around it.
I mess with.. Erm, a slightly illegal copy of Ableton (Full intents to buy, even before I actually do anything with it, I simply "Obtained" it to see how it works, and love it. So yeah), so I'd like it to integrate fairly well with that.
Figure I should get the keyboard first, so I actually know what I'm doing with it by the time I legally own the DAW, opposed to jumping straight in and purchasing the DAW, making something I'll regret once I actually have some theory under my belt (Which I see a lot of - maybe without the regret, though). I know the basics of theory, it's just tough to get any more than that when i have to hit X or Z to go up or down an octave in Ableton.. Plus, ya know. Computer keyboards suck.
Sorry, off track here. As well as all of that, I'd like something I can easily use away from the computer as well. Not sure how well-off keyboards that can be plugged in, as well as battery powered are, so if anyone can enlighten, that'd be nice.
Sorry for being a bit.. Unknowing, just wondering and all. I have some in mind already, I'd just like to know what others might recommend. Hoping for something in the Six-Hundred dollar area, though anywhere up to around Fifteen-hundred is alright. I can wait, if it's worth it.
Thanks in advance, lemme know if I've gone and left some important specification out.