I must be missing something. In looking at this, I have to admit that I'm trying to figure out why anyone would want this over a proper drum machine, or a cheap laptop with any number of free drum machine softwares loaded, etc. etc. Particularly at this price point. Another more versatile item at the same price - A Casio or Yamaha workstation keyboard. Casio WK2xx series for example.

Perhaps it's part of the "pedals-only" guitarist mindset - where the only thing that can be done as a musician is with a guitar and pedal board.

I have friends that have thousands of dollars tied up in their pedal-boards/pedal combinations - and I can match their tone in mere seconds, with my Zoom G5 (which has a drum machine built in with 40 patterns, BTW). The patterns are not really programmable - perhaps that's one small shortcoming

The G5 doesn't look as cool as a multi-colored array of pedals with cool names - that much is true, but with instant recall of patches, with no leaning down to adjust knobs constantly, and an under $300 price point, in my opinion it's a killer value.

So, again, I'm trying to figure out how this is not just a drum machine without the on-board pads, in guitar pedal form. You certainly couldn't put it into your guitar signal chain - so it's going to be a separate box somewhere. Get an Alesis SR18 for $260, and two footswitches for it for maybe another 30$, and you will run circles around this thing for live performance, for programmability, etc., unless again, I'm somehow missing what this thing does.

Pat, what was it about this device that has you intrigued?

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