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