Best Drum Machine For Practice?

[VirtuallyReal]

I'm looking for a user-friendly, good sounding drum machine, mainly for practice (for recording i use several plug-ins like Addictive Drums and such)

All i want is a drum machine that i can just plug into some amp, to jam along and practice.

My ideal one would come with a decent (and usable) array of patches, and the ability to program new ones without a NASA engineer-degree.

All i want is a simple, intuitive, yet good sounding unit. Some sort of a tamed drummer that plays along the line you want, endlesly, without the one minute drum solos in between ...

... or maybe a unit with a computer interface, were you can edit songs or even use midi files, that can be loaded into the unit afterwards?


I'm aware i can do all this on my DAW, but sometimes i just want to push a few buttons and start playing...

Does such unit exist?

 

[MNAirHead]

click from your addictive to an mp3.. last thing most of us need are more boxes sitting around.

I've owned drum machines.. normally for practice it ends up being a single track.. you can do this in addictive and then export.

 

[MNAirHead]

Sorry.. few buttons = Windows Media Player or your mp3 player.

 

[P-oddz]

I've got one of these:

http://www.theguitarfiles.com/modules.php?name=catalog&file=product_info&products_id=1922

Kind of cheesy, but it definitely carries a beat. Drums sound okay - good and cheap for practice anyway. I use it when I demo song ideas for the band. Nothing fancy, and fairly simple to use.

 

[philtoler]

I use my Zoom MRS8 all the time for that - so easy to use gives you 100's of sounds and sequences at the touch of a button (or wheel). Re programming - excellent - either real time or step sequence functions and also has something called a "rhythm song" function, which is designed especially to make programming quick and easy. You can also create patches and save to SD card.