Best Midi Keyboard

Thanks to some idiot who decided to slam into the back of my car and total it, I will have some extra money after I buy another car.

I'm looking for a 25-, 37-, or 49-key midi keyboard.

What have you guys used and what do you like best? What are good features to have?

I will probably be using this with Garage Band and Ableton Live, which will be on a Macbook Pro I will be purchasing with the money as well.

25 isn't sufficient in my opinion. Get firewire, whatever you do. Latency is whack.

it depends, if you are going to be making a lot of drum tracks i like the smaller more bouncy keys, if you are going to do more synth or piano stuff on garage band get something with weighted piano sized keys. also i would recommend the 49 key if you are going to be actually playing stuff on it. I just use a cheap m audio one and then I have an electric piano with a midi out as well.

I probably won't be using it live too much but I'm not sure which is why I'm definitely leaning more towards the 37- or 49-key options. I'll be using it mainly for recording drum tracks (though I have an Akai MPD24 that I will probably use for drums) and bass/synth tracks.

Good call on the firewire, too. Latency is definitely whack through USB.