If you're going to put money into a REAL drum machine (sorry, but the $300 just aren’t going to do much of anything at all) you’re going to need to look at one of the bigger ones. Just about everything you want to do, you could do with one of the Akai MPCs... the MPC3000 is about as sick as is gets for drum machines, you run into guys like DJ Quik using them, but they will also run you a couple thousand. The old MPC60s aren’t even bad, you might be able to find one used at a decent price. Roland has a decent one if I remember correctly, pretty much a rip-off design of the akai, and I think that one is about a thousand dollars cheaper. I'm the kind of guy who likes live manipulation, so that’s why I use a drum machine... but if you're just doing recorded stuff, you don’t even really need one. Cubase or Protools are the two programs I recommend for music creation/editing.
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