my next "drum machine" will be the maschine, my 1000 died on me and i'm sick of tracking out. i'm using some weak equipment right now (a sampletrak and microsampler) and am having trouble coming up with fire so i'll be buying one within the next month. the sampletrak sounds great, i like the sound of the microsampler too but i need a deeper sequencer (such as my 1000 had.) i'll probably run my samples through the sampletrak as i've heard the maschine sounds sterile.