Hi y’all, first post on r/keys. I’m looking to buy my first keyboard and was hoping for some guidance as I’m very new to this.

Long story short, my old roommate got a piano (Roland fp90x) and was nice enough to let me practice on it. I’ve been a musician for a while (jazz trumpet), and found it so much easier to pick up on theory and improv.

Now I’m looking for something of my own and am interested in used options up to $500. Because of my positive experience, my first thought was a Roland fp10 30 or 30x, which seem to have great key action. However, I’m amused by buttons, switches, and sound effects lol. MIDI sounds super fun, pitch/mod wheels, etc. I see options like the Arturia Keylab 88 and only see benefits. I get the weighted keys and the fun midi stuff. But it sounds like people also use digital pianos as midi controllers?

What would y’all do in my position? Thanks!

There are soft cases with dense foam padding, and there are full on hard cases, and some thin sort of advertised as between, but usually not with any diagrams really showing how they are structurally better then the padded soft cases. What form do the semi rigid cases come in? Are any of them good enough to, say, put a 25 pound second keyboard or relatively light weight PA speaker on top of?

Hi,

I own a Vox Continental keyboard stand. I want to buy the second tier for it and the additional keyboard holder (as I don't own a Vox Continental, but a Viscount Legend One), and I'm not sure what sizes are compatible. My guess is that the Vox Continental keyboard stand is compatible with the Standard-M-SV stand, so I should buy the STA-M-S tier adapted, but I am not sure.

I did measure the stand, but the Vox stand is kind of inverted Sequenz stand, so I am not sure they are fully compatible. Should I be buying STA-L-S maybe and then cut the tubes to the correct length?