Wow what can I say about this drum machine...??? This thing is awsome! The kits are amazing.. The were sampled above CD quality.. The pad sensitivity is really cool.. Example if you hit the ride cymbal pad lightly you get the sound from the outside of the cymbal.. The harder you hit the sound moves closer to the bell.. Talk about control! It's like that with all the pads. The kits are great.. They sound so real and are by far much better than the PSR. It has 396 preset patterns, and has space for 99 user. The best part is that a single pattern can be up to 99 bars long.. Yes I you saw that right.., 99 bars long!! There are 50 preset kits and 20 user kits.. When they say user kits they aren't joking.. You can totally edit the kits any way you like. It has 7 pads on the face and there are 2 banks for each kit, giving you a total of 14 pads per kit. You can assign any sound from any kit to a pad. That's not all.. You can also adjust the pad sensitivity, tune, pan, and level. Recording patterns is so easy.. It has realtime and step recording, plus full quantizing. To spead up recording you can also copy your user or even preset patterns. You can connect a footswitch that can be set to control things like "Open Hat" start and stop, and a few other things.. Recording songs is easy because it uses something that I think all arrangers should allow and that's PATTERN CHAINING.. Putting the piece together takes no time at all.. The internal memory is 20,000 notes. A song allows up to 99 patterns.. Here's the good part.. You have up to 99 slots to put your patterns in the order you want.. Each slot can have a pattern with differnt bar lengths.. Example the first pattern can be 10 bars and the next one can be only 1.. It's so fun putting them together too.. Honestly I don't think I will ever use the internal kits on the my PSR-550.. I got so spoiled with this thing last night.. Plus I'm also a drummer and I need good sounding kits and something that's easy and fun to program. Well that's all for now.. If there's anything else I'll add it later.. Off to making more patterns..

Squeka