Help, need suggestion for a sequencer!

[Hollowcell]

Originally Posted by synthfiend

Most sequencers do the job, big ones are Logic Studio for Mac and Cubase for PC. Live also very good.
I am also looking to purchase a sequencer, Cubase on the PC seems like the logical choice, you get way more bang for buck with a PC that a Mac.

Yep, Cubase is great, and as I have been a user for around the 10 year mark, I can tell you it's really good for the things it does well, but.....
I have made the switch to Live and I won't be heading back to Cubase any time soon (except for mixing and mastering). Live is just so much damn fun to get tracks happening - specially once you have the APC - and it's so hands on it's insane!

Originally Posted by synthfiend

As for making good drums, a lot of producers use good clean fat audio samples and just paste them onto the audio track, apparently more tight and predicable than using MIDI sequencers with a drum sampler or drum instrument in VST format.

I have never heard of anyone doing this for drums - talk about taking the 'music' out of 'making music', but each to their own though I guess. What genre are people doing this for?
I just can't imagine anyone stepping through whole drum patterns these days really.