Virtual Drums Needed Options

Hey y'all -

Got Cubase SX on OS X. Love it, but the included LM-7 drum machine sucks.

Here's what I want to do: I want a drum module or stand-alone software durm sample player that I can control with my Roland SPD-20 pads via MIDI. I need the ability to route each individual sound to a different MIDI track in Cubase, either by assigning a unique MIDI channel to each sound or by some other method.

Also, I want great sounds. The less expensive the better, but price is not the most important consideration.

Q: Will Reason 2.0 fit this bill? I was planning on getting it anyway, so if I can do my drum thang with Reason then I can kill two birds with one stone.

Thanks, everyone.

[midiwife]

Hi there,

There's a neat plug in VSTi the SR202 by Muon that comes with Computer Music Mag. It's basically a drum sample player with a few tweakables like resonance and cutoff, panning and vol per sound. Not sure to be honest if it's OSX compliant yet but my guess is that it will be if not already. Or there's Loopazoid which is also free though again, not sure if it's OSX yet.

Good luck.