I'm a guitar and keyboard player currently. With this drum machine you can do from ambient electronic style music, hip hop, to abstract rock style drumming. The Rm1x even has Jazz type drums.Not only good for just drumming but also background sounds. Synthesizers, FX, regular instrument sounds. Make sure you check out the manual, and take advantage of its MIDI capabilities. You can also mute any of the 16 tracks, lets say you only want to hear the drums only. You can. In summary, it's like having 16 musicians all at once. Oh! Did I metion you can also edit every sound there. You can change drum kits,bass, keyboards, everything. The patterns it comes with are alright, I'm not sure how you can change them yet. But, when I edit the sounds with the ones I want. You really come up with something original and fantastic. . I recomment this with any type of musician that wants to try different styles of music. Whether your a saxophone player, trumpet,guitar, keyboard, bass or even a singer. Just be patient and read the manual. You can't go wrong. Go for it!

Best hardware sequencer next to rs7000, Sick fx, built like a tank, reliable, lots o' sounds, ability to make pretty much any kind of kit you need, all you need is a sampler, midi board and some thing to record into, Presto! finished high quality tracks. It just has lavish sequencing and editing, what more can you ask for from a drum machine? I use it with a yamaha a5000, korg dw8000, roland v synth, ensoniq eps, and record into my laptop with a motu 828 and logic 5, This is an awesome setup for me, unlimited possibilities.

easier to use than the mpc, plus it comes with over 40 drum kits, and 300+ synth sounds (options to create your own)

Excellent sequencer, but factory patterns are lame; confusing controls, difficult to use at first, but with time it will become your best jam partner. MUST READ OWNER'S MANUAL FULLY and understand it to achieve total use of all the capabilities of this unit.

The sequencer is top notch. Great for on stage performance. However, if you want real sounding instruments, use an external tone generator! Too much hip-hop, Techno, etc. junk. O.K. if you only want to use for adding to existing music. Don't expect your XG MIDI songs to sound very good using the RM1X tone generator.