I currently host an open mic night and I have a mixer and a PA system and have up to this point dealt with rock, singer/songwriter, reggae, pop kind of stuff. I would love to be able to put out beats, like hip-hop beats, through my PA and then be able to jam over them with guitar and voice. It'd be nice to be able to control the beats myself but having something that has a few presets (programmable?) would work also. Am I looking at some sort of synth, a drum machine, one of those midi DJ controllers, ...? Like I imagine with a laptop I could output an instrumental to the mixer but that's bulky and tedious. Is it feasible to play instrumental tracks off a phone through a PA system and then add on a few more layers? I suppose things could be done with beat-boxing and a loop pedal but I want to really feel that beat....
Thanks!
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