Stylus is a software library of thousands of hip hop break beats from Eric Persing of Spectrasonics (he's the guy who made the Roland patches in the 80s and 90s) Each loop can be quickly edited with filters, envelopes and transposers to make it sound totaly different. Stylus has its own control pannel and you can play it like an instrument. There is a video on their website of Eric demoing it.
Each key on your keyboard can trigger a different loop and you can mute and combine any elemts form any of them. There is also Groove Control, which means the loops can be steched ti any tempo. They were carefuly recorded from vinyl to impart warmth. Sting and Brian Culberston w/Marcus Miller have used Stylus exstensivly on their latest albums. I programmed beats for years and hate all that work. Stylus has thousands of great loops and each has a unique and incredible sound.

[This message has been edited by rintincop (edited 02-21-2004).]