Hello, Che, See http://www.dancingdots.com/prodesc/MIDIEquip.htm for economical and competitively priced selection of USB musical keyboard controllers. You can use a MIDI controller to trigger internal sounds via SONAR and other MIDI-based software. SONAR ships with a software synthe program called Cakewalk TTS which I use a lot. Bill _____ From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Che Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 6:08 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] new guy Hi all, I am new to the whole music editing scene, and new to this list as well. I used to edit video when I could see, and so far CakeWalk seems to be quite similar. I was wondering if folks have any suggestions for a good but reasonably priced midi keyboard, hopefully less than 200 bucks. Also, I understand there are USB keyboards out there, do thiese just require a driver installation, usb hookup and away you go? Lastly, with one of these keyboards, can I assign soundFonts to my keyboard and play various instruments? Much thanks, Che