Sound Mod. vs. Keyboard w/ XL...?

Man, I need something to generate new sound into my program. I've seen **** about sound modules combined w a midi controller and i've heard points on the sound you get from a quality keyboard. Which do u prefer?

The way I see it a lot of keyboard synthesizers are workstation with a sampler and/or sequencer on board. You already have a ill sampler and sequencer so don't get a workstation unless you got $ to burn.
Other than that you have to just listen to everything in your price range and get one you like I guess. It doesn't matter whether the soundmodule needs a seperate midi keyboard or not, I consider my Micro Korg a "module" even though it has keys (that may not be correct though), and I can still use those keys to play multisamples off the MPC, even though they are connected to a sound engine.
Hope this helps...

Sound modules are space-savers if you've got a rack. But you still need something to play them from.

Right now, I've got a few modules all hooked up in my rack, with a MIDI controller going into my computer, so that I can control all of them from the same set of keys. Saves space.

Get a rack sampler. I have a s6000 with an HD, over the past year I bought and sampled out sounds from a Fantom and a Trinity, and i just copped a CD of eBay today that had Motif, Mo Phatt, and XV 5080 sounds, shit is hot, it was like $14.00, my days of wasting money on workstations and modules is OVA!!!!

i'm looking into some EastWest sample collections next.

Aster is on point. Sound modules are a HUGE space saver. If you are planning on building up a collection of synths over time, you want to go with sound modules. If you are going to use only one, you might as well cop an all in on e workstation, but you already have a sequencer (the 2000), so to me, thats just wasted money.

A lot of newer sound modules are actually more powerful than their keyboard counterparts. The Motif, Triton, and Fantom Rack variants all have way more internal sounds than the Keyboard versions. The only catch is, you lose the Keys and the sequencer. (and in the Motif's case you lose sampling)