Yep , getting burned on a deal is not cool at all . Also , yes , the REDSOUND is a module and can be controlled by any MIDI keyboard . The price that it is now , it can't be beat . It's just a straight 8 voice synthesizer . It has no ridiculous features like 128 note polyphony , multi track sequencer , and it's not some boring sample regurgitator . It's very simple and straight forward like the ARP AXXE .