A keyboard with VSTs inside, its been available for 10 years, its called the Wersi Abacus

Wersi however is building a new range of upgraded organs and soon keyboards with a huge 15" screen at a huge price, just google for wersi sonic and OAX..



The true reason that there is no real keyboard with VSTs inside is that the technollogy was not ready for this. Stabillity issues coem to mind... You dont want your keyboard crashing because of 3rd party badly programmed stuff... Instruments need top of the bill stabillity above all... And Yamaha and co just can not garantee that when there are 3rd party instruments crashing your arranger or synth..


The way akai works is that if the PC crashes, people cant blame akai...and on top of that, current top knotch VSTs have become very stable and reliable... i dont think it will take long before we see workstation that combines its hardware sounds and the vst sounds in a way we see on the akai..