The quickest way to record new music, to get up and playing stuff is to play directly into a PC. Enter Usb midi keyboards etc. Gone are the days where you have to record midi through specific high end machines, complicated usb midi interfaces or through special hardware midi controllers. You can of course still use all these things but it is also the age of simplicity - you can literally buy a usb midi keyboard, plug it into almost ANY pc or laptop and be making music within 5 minutes. It really can be that easy.
USB Midi keyboards
Never has it been a better time to learn the piano or keyboard, with technology at its peak, democratised, cheaper tools are now available to us all. For under £50 you can now buy a decent usb midi keyboard with full size keys (usually 49 or 61) that will be ideal in practicing playing music on a keyboard.
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USB Midi cable
A lot of modern midi keyboards don't even require a specialist converter to go from their midi output to a computer, gone are the requirement (at least for amateurs) for an expensive sound card or patcher unit - even then nice synthesisers output midi to usb - it really is that common.
Whether you are hunting for a midi recording interface, a usb midi keyboard, a cool synthesiser touch pad that feeds to usb or literally a usb midi cable - you can bet you will find it on usbmidi.co.uk, its Kinda just how we roll.
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Midi USB Adapters
If you have already got a slightly older midi keyboard or other midi device (touchpad synth for the win) then you might just be searching for a usb adapter to get recording strait into your pc - we have those too - check the section on the side to find it quicksnap!
..pick yourself up a decent usb midi keyboard, or a normal digital keyboard and a usb midi adapter, get some software and get producing. If you already know what your doing in producing music then no doubt youll be able to find some decent tech here too ;)