Hi,
No such thing as "too late". 17 or 57 its all about motivation and desire to learn and experiment.

All depends on what you want to do. If you want to become a professional keyboard player and play with bands that's one thing. If you want to become a producer and actually make music that's another. If you want to be a bit of both then I guess you'll just have to take piano lessons and learn as much as you can about synths and studio work as well.

I think some piano lessons are in order since you must at least know the notes you're playing. At the ssame time don't mistake just playing for using synths and electronic musical equipment.

You have several choices as a beginner.

1. Pick up a home keyboard like the Yamaha PSR and have fun with it whilst learning all it can teach you about using home keyboards.

2. Pick up a beginner level synthesizer workstation like the Juno G and learn all it can do. It will definitely teach you some basics about synth programming, sequencing and mixing. Actually you might even make some electronic music with it.

3. Pick up a KB controller, some music software and upgrade your home PC so you can learn to make music and use sequencer/ host programs and software synths etc. It's the kind of setup that you can expand and add to as your needs grow.

cheers,