Korg 707 vs Novation Peak

He's tried just about every piece of sampling gear over the years and arrived at the 707. For the price point there's definitely more bang for your buck than the 101 and the 6s. However, his advice to me is always "do everything you can with what you have and only upgrade gear if it's holding you back."

I'm looking for something around the same price (or a little lower) than the Peak, but with a built-in full-sized keyboard. I care more about workflow and ergonomics than having a million features, definitely don't need more than 8 voices, and am agnostic on digital v analog.

Great for the on-the-couch experience, extremely deep synth engine, lots of on-board ROM sounds, very solid sampling abilities (though not multisampling), slicing for percussion samples, velocity sensitive pads, multiple effects sections, easy resampling, constant updates, weird (but useful) scatter function, good sequencer, a so-called looper with timestretch, handy faders, assignable knobs... overall, despite a few limitations, it's still pretty good

You could easily create some wave tables in serum or phase plant or whatever you prefer, to work in bounce them out and then port them into the peak. ...