RickJP909, thanks for the long and very informative answer (and the compliment): much appreciated! I will have a look at all the stuff you mentioned! BTW PE is Producer Edtion. ;) And I already found out about the Sonitus Gate which indeed works very easily! And it's nice to know I am not alone when it comes to not using samples: I also always feel the need to create beats etc. from scratch on my own. ;)

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Sharke...agreed. That is the probably the biggest single knock. I had not really thought about that since I like the fact that it is a sampler and it will map a sample to pads mpc60 style. I figure for non-4/4 stuff i can use Sonar's sequencer to trigger. 

Yeah that's true, then again I already have Battery which can do this as well.