Thanks, Ris - it should have occurred to me to mention that the Performance Pad is indeed in effect a Control Pad with an SR-16 stuffed up it. I had a feeling that what you say might be the case, so much appreciated.

Aural, it looks as though you're telling me that it will do what I want, or at least it ought to, and if it doesn't it's silly. I always appreciate useful advice based on experience...

As it happens I've got one of those Akai MPD 16-pad jobbies on the way and will probably get a Korg padKONTROL as well, as neither are stupidly expensive; I've heard that the Akai needs more of a poke than a tap but that the Korg is patter-sensitive, so it'll be interesting to see what happens.

Both Handsonics are pricey, look like aircraft toilet seats and come with lots of bells and whistles that I don't need - or actually I'd probably quite like the bells and whistles as such, but I'd never use the sequencer, metronome etc. so maybe at some point...

At present I'm actually using both an SPD-6 and a PAD-5 - obsolete but simple, and adjustable to the level of the slightest tickle. Betcha I end up trying loads of other stuff and come back to these!

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