General Music Chat

Ezdrummer.

God I hate to admit it. It works better than Fruity Loops.

http://www.vettaville.com/ezdrummer.htm

I got me an Alesis SR16 a while back. Haven't recorded with it yet. Still playing around with it, but the drums sound great on it. Each pattern has an A and B setting for variance in the patterns, plus each A and B have a different fill which changes depending on where you come in on the measure with it. Example: If you are playing in 4/4, hit the fill button on the first beat and it plays a 4 beat fill, hit it on the second and it plays a 3 beat fill and on and on. Every pattern and fill can be modified and saved. I think I gave $149 for it used from musician's friend.

This question is posed to those of you who are putting together your own music and using a drum machine of some kind. What are you using? Do you like it?

I am a guitar player, and I know basically nothing about drums. I'd like to start putting together some demos of some songs I'm writing. I need something for drums... Not sure what to get. Need something inexpensive, but decent.

Suggestions?

Get one of those old Roland drum machines.
Personally I just use drum samples/loops for demo purposes.
I get a real drummer if I record something properly.