Virtual Drums Needed Options

Hey y'all -

Got Cubase SX on OS X. Love it, but the included LM-7 drum machine sucks.

Here's what I want to do: I want a drum module or stand-alone software durm sample player that I can control with my Roland SPD-20 pads via MIDI. I need the ability to route each individual sound to a different MIDI track in Cubase, either by assigning a unique MIDI channel to each sound or by some other method.

Also, I want great sounds. The less expensive the better, but price is not the most important consideration.

Q: Will Reason 2.0 fit this bill? I was planning on getting it anyway, so if I can do my drum thang with Reason then I can kill two birds with one stone.

Thanks, everyone.

[rickenbacker]

Ooh, I don't know about Midi pads. Don't see why not, though, if it's just sending Midi signals. I can thwack the keys on my Midi keyboard in a vaguely rhythmical fashion and bash out a drum pattern that way, with keys assigned to unique sounds and outputs. Or I can punch the on-screen buttons in ReDrum, building patterns up in step time, which is actually what I prefer.

E-mail Propellerhead's tech support - they've always been very helpful to me and prompt in replying, even before I owned Reason. Tell 'em what you want to do and they'll give you the yay or nay.

Aside from that, if it's LM4 vs. Reason 2.0, Reason 2.0 would win hands down for me. I'd probably still choose Reason over Battery, in fact. Unless I had unlimited funds, of course, in which case I'd have all of them.