I'm gonna prob derail the thread here but since it's mine Idgaf...
So with Stylus You basically can create your own drum loops and drop your own sounds in..etc I saw a youtube review and it looked crazy. I can see that being very valuable can you create your own sounds within it or is everything preset and just re arrangeable?
You can do anything. Stylus starts with drum loops. Then there are a shitload of tools where you can modify those drum loops. You can change any parameter. You can change the pattern. You can change the swing and the feel. You can change ANYTHING you can think to change...
Then once you're finish changing stuff, you can drag and drop the pattern into your sequencer, and it drops in there as a midi sequence, and you can do further edits and tweaking.
It comes with all kinds of fx too.
And about the other sounds, yes, you can take that midi track and assign a different instrument to it, and basically play a complimenting instrument pattern for your drum pattern.
Then you can drop your own Dr. Rex files into Stylus and modify them.
The thing i like the most is how i can change the tempo independently of the pitch. It sync's up with the tempo of my sequencer automatically, so i can go thru a gang of loops to see which one works, and don't have to worry about loops being out of tempo.
I use it all the time. Check out my website
www.IndustrySound.com. The beat at the very beginning of that video uses Stylus (and StormDrums 2) for the percussion.