Korg Taktile 49 49-Key Midi Controller Brand New $149.00

The Korg taktile-49 may very likely be your "desert island" USB/MIDI keyboard controller. It goes well out of its way to make sure you don't even have to touch your computer keyboard if you don't want to. Its cool X/Y pad gives you complete creative control over effects and synths, but it can also double as a trackpad for your mouse pointer. The ribbon control can also left- and right-click, and full transport controls let you navigate your DAW with ease. And of course there's a generous array of faders, pads, and assignable buttons, and we haven't even gotten into the built-in arpeggiator, chord, and scale functions. The Korg taktile-49 basically gives you everything you wanted in a USB/MIDI keyboard controller - and some extras you soon won't want to produce and perform without.

• 49-key USB/MIDI controller with semi-weighted keyboard
• Arpeggiator with rhythm patterns, plus Touch Scale and Chord Scale functions
• Controllers include: 16 drum trigger pads, pitch bend, mod wheel and X-Y touch pad
• Various assignable controllers (8 sliders, 8 knobs, 8 switches), dedicated DAW transport switches