I've got a DR880 and use it for most of my percussion. It's got loads of fantastic snares and acoustic cymbals but also has techno, house and electro kits. It beats the arse off using drum samples in Battery which I was doing before and I use Battery for vocal samples now.
The DR880 provides bread and butter samples which sound professional and are well crafted. It's not an innovator like a Machinedrum. You can assign any of the 440 samples onto the 16 drum pads by pressing the pad and cycling through with the dial. You can then change pitch, decay, EQ on each instrument and add reverb and spacial effects. When wacked through UAD compressors it sounds incredibly punchy.
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