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The problem with a lot of these fancy and expensive keyboards is that they have far too few keys.

For instance, the Realforce 87U ($255) has only 87 keys.

My current $24 keyboard has 136 keys. And I still wish I had more keys! Using a keyboard with a mere 87 keys would be torture, no matter how pleasant the tactile feedback was.

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Learn to press two keys at once. Now you have 3741 keys.

(And yes, all these expensive keyboards have n-key rollover, meaning that you can press as many keys as you want and they will report exactly what you're pressing. Cheap keyboards have a matrix that results in "phantom" keypresses if you chord anything other than shift or control and a letter.)

There are always the Realforce 103U models. If you don't mind me asking, what are the other 33 keys mapped to on your keyboard? In fact, what keyboard has 136 keys?

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