Ahh death by G&T, so its not just human drummers that meet their demise through alcohol!

Because you need some backing in the form of a bass line that follows your playing it cuts down the choice a fair bit as most have pre-programmed chord progressions and bass lines.

I have spent a lot of time with live drummers and its hard to swallow Midi drum kits after that; a B3 just doesn't sound right with a standard Midi drum machine, but Ketron stuff has a nice live feel to them and amplify up very well. The Midjay+ is a great little unit that plays SD5 styles, MP3, Midi & Wav files but lacks quick access buttons to the styles in real time (have to use a data wheel). The SD3 (module version of the SD5) has the styles in categories, but also is a full blown arranger and does not play mp3 files. So they are probably not what your after.

Does anyone remember a drum machine called a 'Powerhouse'? It was an 8 track player with a tape library of live drum loops with 4 stereo variations for each.

Sorry I have not been much help!

TWD

edit: http://matrixsynth.blogspot.com/2006/10/scottish-made-powerhouse-drum-machine.html

thats the powerhouse! useless for you, but my Dad still has one somewhere.

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