Seeking sampler and keyboard advice

["joe rut" <joerut@lycos.com>]

Fellow Loopers-

I'm a guitarist and (except for my twin EDPs) an "analog guy".  However, I 
have a hankering to be able to trigger sound samples from a 
keyboard.  I've been to a couple music stores recently and the staff seem 
pretty clueless as to how to help me (hey..just like me!!).  

SO:  Here's what I want to be able to do.

1.  Record live sounds and save as samples (I have all required mics and 
pres, etc.)
2.  Assign individual samples to individual keys on a keyboard (eg. C = a 
doorbell, C# = a cat meowing, D= a sneeze, etc.) such that 
each key triggers a different sound.
3.  Icing on the cake would be to have more than one set or bank of sounds 
to switch between.
4.  As cheap as possible, and lo-fidelity is not a problem (may even be an 
asset).

Are there keyboards that can do this all internally?  Do I need a sampler 
and a separate keyboard to trigger.  Do I also need something to 
store the samples in for access?  Or would the keyboard access the sampler 
directly?

Anyone have any advice to point me in the right direction?

Thanks

Joe Rut

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