Before I went full Arranger I used a Roland CR80 Preset machine. Mostly decent usable preset rhythms and you could trigger Intros, fills, and endings on the fly and it had a couple of buttons to trigger sounds. No programming needed. Sounded good and did the job for quite awhile. I'm sure its discontinued but there are some around for sale.
I kinda miss the simplicity of working like that.


Edited by Bill Lewis (06/21/16 04:26 PM)
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Bill in SC --- Roland BK9 (2) Roland BK7M, Roland PK5 Pedals, Roland FP90, Roland CM30 (2), JBL Eon Ones (2) JBL 610 Monitor, Behringer Sub, EV mics, Apple iPad (2) Behringer DJ mixer