wonderingmeow

Exactly what the Sweetwater reviews say about this thing. Comes with all Arturia keyboards. For mine, I got the 49key. It automatically sets itself up with your keyboard. Mine only didn't register 2 knobs, but mapping is really easy and only one click away, and the knob functions can be changed. Endless sounds and synths to mess with. Very fun VST

Great and easy to learn interface. You can highlight anything and a box in the corner will tell you what it does. Get a cheap midi keyboard and find a free good piano vst that works on Ableton and you can have a low budget but working piano. Only drawback is that the stock drums aren't as good as what you can find if you're trying to do some kind of IDM.

The buttons and ability to touch the top of a turntable to stop a song is really cool for being cheap, only drawback is the lack of headphone port. Would only suggest for home use, but really good for only $130

For only $130, this little friend can get the jobs of both an octave keyboard and launchpad, comes with a license for Ableton Lite (which is all you really need once you find free VSTs) and a synth VST called Hybrid that actually sounds really good. As a beginner, I found this to be a really good learning tool.