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Don't have a recommendation for one, but just hopping in to give a warning to get a proper MIDI Keyboard, not a Digital Piano if all you're going to use it for is working with VST sounds and don't really need the built-in sounds and speakers.

I purchased a Digital Piano instead of an actual MIDI Keyboard since i wasn't even thinking about writing music/composing when i was buying a piano just for learning to play, and I've wished i bought a midi keyboard instead ever since i started composing 😅

Just for example, my Digital Piano is a Yamaha-NP45 and i found after starting to use VST sounds that the piano has some issues with how it sends midi velocity data, leading to it being hard to play high dynamics on it via midi. I think some other digital pianos suffer from similar issues too, since they are first and foremost made for playing the built in sounds and not used as a midi controller.

The extra slider/faders, knobs, pith and mod wheels and other buttons found on proper midi controllers are also really handy to have if you want to actually play the midi data in.

I went the really stupid route of buying a small 25key midi controller (Novation Launchkey 25mk2) so i had a pitch and modulation wheels, but then wanted actual faders to play in control data for stuff like sampled orchestral sounds so i bought a small midi controller that has just faders and knobs (Korg Nanokontrol 2). I could've just initially saved up some more and bought a good 88 key midi controller  that had all of those included in the one keyboard.

Sorry for the rambling, but I don't want anyone else to make the same mistakes I've done 😂