Hi Diki,
sorry, I may have mislead .
The Ketron, User drum loops aren't actually sliced. They just get loaded in processed & played back as is.

The "Live Drums" which are apparently rom based drum loops, are fairly adequate. They're not really used on their own. Normally it's a combination of a midi drum track & a Live Drum track.
The Live drum track can be used throughout most of the style, but it's the midi drums that add the variety & the build up thru the variations.

I can see where you're coming from as far as trying to do one's own instrumental loops (if that is an option on the Audya) idea sounds great, but I'm having enough problems putting together enough generic drum loops for my PA800. I've got access to 100's of them, but I can't afford to have drum loops in my PA that may only be suitable for the one style. Could get too messy loading & unloading everytime I want to change styles. 64 mb ram doesn't go far when a 1 bar drum loop equals 1 mb.

Ketron must be doing user loops differently?? Hopefully they've got a good broad base of rom loops. Don't know how many of us ever tried creating drum loops for the sd's.

Diki, maybe we're just too fixated on doing our own thing.
A lot of the dedicated Ketron owners seem more than happy with what they've got.
They must be reasonably happy with the onboard styles.
With some of the Yammie groups I've belonged to, the fixation seems to be with styles ( I'm definately one of those haahaa) whereas Ketron owners ( only an observation from one of the groups I belonged to) appear more than happy playing older models, & they don't appear to be fixated on styles.

Maybe different brands suit different temperments. haahaa ( only kidding)

best wishes
Rikki
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Diki:
[B]Thanks, Rikki....