Man, this FEELS like a stupid question!

Welcome Gene.

The stock sound card is the likely culprit. Trying to get a stock sound card to play midi is a hit and miss thing with the factory cards due to a whole number of factors. None of them good. 

Some folks can get ASIO4ALL to work ok but the ultimate, final solution is to use a USB external (after market) dedicated musical interface. 

If the audio loops play OK but midi is all weirded out, yup..... 

Once you get a work around to the factory card or choose an interface like most of us here use, life with MC6 will be lovely. 

You're saying you can hear the drums but they do not have a steady meter to them. 

This can be caused by the sound card not being able to process the midi data in a timely manner. It can also be caused by the sound card not having the same sampling rate as the DAW is set to. 

We get this issue here quite often and the usual cause is the card. Factory cards are not designed to handle the massive data and real time processing required to get everything back to the speakers in less than 8 milliseconds. As the data builds up, it gets dropped and you hear stuff out of time, and things that shouldn't be where they are. 

An interface like I described  in post 2 is the best solution if you plan to do this sort of recording as a hobby. 

Research the interfaces available on Beagle's website....   www.beaglesound.com and get something that will work properly that fits your needs and budget. He set it up to help folks sort through the many options and get something that actually will work like you expect it to. 

Like I said, we all have interfaces that are designed to do music right. It makes the process enjoyable and seamless. 

Some others will pop in and offer some help.... You may be able to get some settings tweeked on teh factory card to get you by until you can get an interface.

One thing I would try.... after you get the drums kinda like you want..... freeze the track. This renders the midi into audio and the computer and card can handle audio better since there is no massive conversion needed. 

Thanx Hacker. I'll check out Beagle's website. Was in the market for a new computer anyways. Might as well go big. 

@Kalle...Groove Clips just had lots of options. Evrything sounds out of time and random. Except for "Song Blocks Parts". That sounds fine....straight...in time. Just can't get the SI Drums kit to play those parts. It seems I'm stuck with the kit that was used to make that particular "Song Block" usually has a 808 kick....not really used on the blues scene. I'll try the sound card. Probably need to get one anyways.

Good advice. Thanx man!

All I need to do when I need an update or registration is to connect the Cat5 cable to the NIC and let it go online when absolutely necessary. 

All told though.... I don't do updates. I have the auto updates turned off so it doesn't bug me. I have also used a USB stick with relative easy to authorize some things. 

Hey guys...Beagle I checked your website...very informative. I do have another stupid question...at the top of your "Sound Card" page you explained that a sound card=audio interface...Yeah? So I was looking at a Focusrite Saffire Pro14. Is that an "External Sound Card"? 

yep.  most newbies get confused when sales drones at Sam Ashe or GC tell them they need an "audio interface" and not a "soundcard" because the sales drones usually relate the motherboard onboard chip to "soundcard" and say you need an "audio interface" instead.  hogwash - they mean the same thing, they just have different features and functions available.  they're all "soundcards"

the saffire Pro 14 should be a good system, but as greg warns, make sure you have Firewire and I will further warn that you might need a TI chipset for the firewire.  if you already have firewire on your motherboard, it might work OK regardless of the type, but if you have to buy a PCI/Firewire card, make sure it's a TI chipset just in case it has problems and you wont' have to take it back to exchange it for a TI one.

Thanks for taking the time to check that out Robert! 
Ok...I'm sure I have the kit in the SI Drums window stopped. When I play them in the SI Drum window they sound great....and when I drag the beat (12Bar3) over to the track I can hear enough of the beat to know that it's playing correctly in the loop...the "markers"in the track look steady. I'm just missing a kick here and a few hats there.