I've never used one, so i'm pretty clueless about them.

So far all i've been told is the $149.00 Alesis in Musician's Friend is decent sounding, fairly priced, and moderately simple to use.

I'll be using it for death/punk/whatever crossover.
thanx for the help -GW

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the Boss/Roland DR 770 is solid. Sometimes computer software is better to construct beats

mpc 2000xl, sort of expensive, but well worth it

The alesis sounds like crap. Check out any of the boss/roland line. You can get a boss Dr-660 or Dr-5/550 on ebay for under $180 and they are easy to use and sound better than the alesis.

theres one on sale right now on the daddys junky music website, on the sales section, for like 180 bucks.

got this from ebay, I think for around $200

we used it to record these:

http://www.hekseri.net/media.html