Some help with my starting setup

This will get you started. The headphones are a great place to start and the interface is a popular choice.

There are absolute benefits to purchasing studio monitors as well as headphones.

As you have probably read a thousand times... or will before you decide which ones to purchase, Studio monitors give your sound a very flat.. very honest response. They haven't boosted up the bass and tweaked the treble (hyped up the sound that we hear) to make your mix sound ballsier. They play (or aim to play, depending on how much you spend/ how big they are/ how your room is sized/ shaped and treated... another post and consideration within itself), the exact sounds you are making, so that when they hit the consumer... your listeners... and their own personal hyped up speakers... the speakers are able to hype up a true representation of your sound... and not leave your songs sounding dull to others when their hyped up speakers are trying to hype up a sound that was ALREADY hyped up by your hyped up speakers.... (you get the picture... the whole copy of a copy mentality).

I know the benefits of working with headphones... but if you want others (friends/ your target audiences) to listen to your stuff... or play it at clubs/ parties, you will want to hear how it sounds in and reacts to a room. Is it too boomy... muddy... wimpy... are those hand claps and hi hats making you grind your teeth every stroke?

Make sure you give yourself a chance to listen to your stuff in a room... without headphones... and test on several speakers... stereos... car audio and bluetooth devices that you have to honestly see how your stuff reacts to standard speakers.... it can make a HUGE difference.

I hope that makes sense and it wasnt just repeating it all to you.

Now. Connections: The headphones plug into the Focusrite as normal. No surprises. Keyboard/ midi controller is USB based. It supplies power AND connectivity. No MIDI cables to purchase or anything. This plugs straight into your computer and the drivers it will install help the focusrite find it... plus it will be detectable.

You will have a lot of fun with this set up. Save for some monitors. Bigger than 4.5 inch... you are driving EDM so will want something that understands a bit of bass will be used and little speakers are never going to cut it... despite what their reviews say. As I have recently been told, 5's can still leave you feeling a little light... and then there is the whole subwoofer consideration.....

Good luck!

there's also the consideration of how far the cone of the woofer or mid driver throws midrange versus your lsitening position. An NS10 is low on abss but the mdis are very rich and detail up close but start abcking off in a small room at low volume and get more balance. Working on midrange? lean forward. working on the lows? lean back for the full effect and then maybe A/B with a wider bandwidth system if you're not so sued to the old yamahas as many oungsters won't be.... but i digres

the other thing about ehadphones is that they totally fuck with the stereo image unless its extreme speacial effects.... now you may be thinking that depending on how a person places their speakers in the room that what you heard will not be what they will ehar.... maybe so, but if you make an equilateral triangle between the speakers and your head at your nominal mix position? that's going to translate okay for people whoa re off-center, off-axis, system where the speakers are spread too wide or are too close ssuming you also make sure it collapses passably to mono. Why is this a concern? clubs are rarely in balanced, well-sapced stereo. EDM? you wanna mix that's fun at home and fun on the floor.... fun on earbuds or even a shitty phone speaker will follow if you make it happen on properly positioned monitors.