what exactly are you asking
If he should buy a real keyboard. How can't you pick that up from where he says..
"should I buy one, is it worth it?"
I've heard some good shit be produced with Reason, it has a good reputation.
The proper producing program is Logic, but I'm pretty sure Reason is the next
best thing. I'm in the same position as you and I think I'm gunna just buy a
cheap one from somewhere.
To what you said about not being about to make any music without the actual keyboard,
You actually still can.
Here are the links I used to using a virtual keyboard and you just use the
middle row of keys and bottom row of keys as the keyboard. But a proper
keyboard would be a lot better.
But here is the link to the tutorial for setting it up anyway.
http://www.franzone.com/2009/02/19/reason-4-virtual-midi-driver-64bit-vista/
Follow those steps it tells you and it should work for you. Good luck
