Looking for reccomendations for a midi keyboard/audio interface.

I heard that I can buy a MIDI keyboard that also acts as an audio interface for Garageband (or other audio programs). I would like a keyboard with a decent octave range; weighted keys would be nice but that may be asking too much. Anyone have suggestions?
Thanks,
Chris
g4 tower   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

There are few combined keyboard interfaces about: M-Audio make a couple:
http://www.m-audio.com/index.php?do=products.list&ID=audiointerfacekb
but I don't think they are at all a good deal. For the money you would do much better to buy an M-Audio Keystation 49e or 69es and a separate audio interface such as Edirol's cheapest one, the UA-1EX or possibly their more expensive but more highly featured UA-4FX: or the Tascam US 122L.

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