[ddots-l] accessible drum machine

All,

I am checking out sonar 6 and had a question for creating my own drum beats.

I used to have an Alesis HR-16B drum machine that had around 30 drum kits in it 
and it had 16 programmable pads. You can make the pads be whatever you wanted
such as kick, snare, high hat, crashes, etc. Then it let you hit the pads and 
create your own beats via a sequence click. It would record your beats for you 
as a pattern.
You could record, for example, 4 or 5 patterns then copy/paste them in the 
order you wanted and save it as a song. I.E intro, verse
1, chorus, bridge, etc.

Does anyone know of any accessible drum machine software that would let me do 
this?  I'd like to do this on the computer now and not use an external drum 
machine since I am sure it is possible, however, I cannot seem to find any 
accessible software package to accomplish this task.

Ideally I would like to have a drum machine software package totally outside of 
sonar and create my beats for my songs outside of sonar then port them into 
sonar as a track. However, I am not all that familiar with sonar yet as I am 
just investigating it so if it is possible to do this within sonar using drum 
kits please let me know. Any feedback much appreciated.

What I do not want is premixed/created drum beats that I can use as a track. I 
want to be able to totally create my own beats using different drum kits. That 
is very important for me to be able to say, for example, use this kick, that 
snare, this ride, and make/record my own beats from scratch.

thanks for any feedback/help!


Regards,
Justin

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