MIDI Drum Controller

How about the M-Audio Trigger Finger?

Glad I could help.

You know how some keyboards have the 16 little pads for playing drums on.
Does anyone make a unit that has only those pads and not a keyboard attached?
I've seen drum machines that have a bunch of samples built in. I don't want that, I want just a controller.
I'll use all software samples in Reason and Sonar.

Roland makes (or used to make ) the Octapad.
Also, if you have an Alesis D4 or D5, (drum modules) these units have trigger inputs.
While they were originally made to be used with a set of pads, you can re-trigger existing drum tracks as well. Also, you can, because they are standard 1/4" in's, even use a microphone to trigger sounds. I suppose you could use a 57 and go directly in with a 1/4" adapter (afetr all, you're not going for fidelity, you are simply using the mic as a triggering source) and you can assign it to whatever drum patch you wish, and at that point, use the midi outs of the module to record the midi information into a sequencer, although you would still have to come out of your sequencer back into the module to hear what you had triggered/sequenced.
I used to use the D4 to retrigger bad sounding drum tracks during remixes, and had a great deal of success, as long as you gate the original tracks properly to avoid "ghost" or "false" triggers.

Just a thought...

D.

What would be ideal for me is a set of Roland V-Drums, because I could be much more expressive and creative if it felt like I was playing a real kit. Unfortunately I can't afford that right now, so I'll probably just get either the Akai or M-Audio drum pads.