What Midi Keyboard

Hello Gang,
I wonder if anyone could recommend a decent midi-keyboard.
I am using a Creative Prodekeys which is is nearly new and already giving problems.

As some of you will probably know, it's design is quite unique as the unit has musical keys as part computer a computer keyboard and it has a host of goodies that come with it,

Its keys are touch sensitive allowing you to play softly or loudly depending on how much pressure you apply. Already after afew weeks, some keys on the unit are not working correctly and full pressure needs to be applied in order for it to work.

I'm not too suprized at this as it only cost £40 and as they say you only get what you pay for.

I need to upgrade so wondered if you guys have any recommendations.....

Herb,
An old used one might do the trick....

Alan, any keyboard will do, as Herb wrote, but look for a name-brand model. My Yamaha works fine, and it's almost 8 years old.
Does your sound card/interface have MIDI connections, or were you going the USB route? Whatever you decide check that you can connect it to what you already have (unless you're planning an interface upgrade).
MIDI controllers are relatively inexpensive, but make no sounds of their own, so you would have to depend on soft synths or MS wavetable synth to hear it. I prefer keyboards that make noise A. because I don't have to load any soft synths to hear it until I'm ready to start mixing down a song and deciding on the final sound I want and 2. On the very unlikely chance that I might want to take it somewhere to play.
EBay is chock-full of used keyboards. Look for Yamaha, Korg, Casio, Roland (Edirol), any brand you've heard of. Before buying, see if the manuals for the devices are included or if they're available online somewhere. If you decide on a Yamaha, and are connecting via USB, you may also have to get the Yamaha MIDI-to-USB converter since Yamahas don't work well with other brands of converters.

It all depends on what you're after.
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Aye thanks S/Geezer

This is probably off-topic of what you're looking for, but since shifty mentioned weighted keyboards and said they're expensive, I wanted to point out that the Casio Previa series is a very good sounding digital weighted piano and they are very inexpensive. I got a PX-310 for less than $500 and now the new ones have 128note poly for the same price!