Hands on drum programming

[nrjizer]

Are there any drum machines or midi interfaces with the traditional sort of step sequencer (i.e. 909) that can be loaded with custom samples? I'm logic based, and I'm basically looking some way to do hands on drum programming instead of pointing and clicking with the mouse. I can trigger samples with my midi keyboard, but 'playing' drums on a keyboard is awkward and not what i'm trying to do. Any suggestions?

[New Guy]

Audio Realism Drum Machine.
It tries to emulate 909,808,606 + you can load your sample and sequence them like you said.

[nrjizer]

I mean actual pieces of hardware

[S]

id suggest a korg esx

[Broken]

For a Hardware / Computer solution the new Ni Maschine looks pretty darn good.

[sorgenkind]

if you can afford, machinedrum UW, you can load samples in the UserWave version.
You have 2.5 MB sample memory which at first sight can be ridicolous but you can store pretty much drum hits in it. They will be converted in 12 bit so they take even less space. I'm not even using the half of the memory tho because the sounds you can synthesise on this machine are just dope... in fact when I first got it i imported a lot of samples I had floathing in the mpc but I ended up replacing almost every sample with new-made sounds.
It costs a lot yes, it has a relatively long learning curve yes, but the sounds you'll get out of it will be the reward.
In terms of user interface, another praise to the machinedrum. Step sequencers are sexy, they just do it for me to program beats -even if you have some logical quantisation limitations- and the way elektron combined the step sequencing with the sound editing will take you deep into drum sound synthesis.

[hydrogen]

a monome running pages. linked up to ableton.

http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=app:pages

sorry hit send to early...

then you can program custom functionality.

[hydrogen]

oooops. didn't see that line where you said you were using logic. sorry