• Great, needs more memory

  
  As reviewed by Bob R on 1/4/2011

  I play guitar and bass. I got this machine to practice along to. I have owned for about 6 months and play with it every day possible. I havent really tinkered around with programming my own drum patterns but, it seems to be pretty ez to do. My friend has the Alesis 16. The Alesis was put on the market in the 90's. It is simple and basic. The Dr 880 offers way more possibilities. AND, it is not just a drum machine. Being able to plug your guitar/bass directly into the unit and using it as an effects pedal is great. The only down side, BOSS dropped the ball on not putting enough memory in this puppy. I would suggest to BOSS to either add more memory or add an SD card slot. It does have a USB port, not sure if you can plug in an external hardrive? If your thinkin about getting it. IT IS WORTH THE MONEY! GET IT!

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• if you play bass or guitar-buy it!

  
  As reviewed by HighSierraBassPlayer on 4/16/2007

  Here's why you should buy this, period! OK it's expensive, but...This is so much more than a "drum machine." It has over 1000 patterns-extensive and superior quality blues, rock, jazz, etc patterns, plus it's so easy to make your own grooves. But, what I like is the bass and guitar accompany. The Boss DR-880 gives you key, chord, and progression on the screen as you go. This is without question the best training tool I have ever seen. All those patterns and you can play key, chord, tempo. Its like having a bass player, drummer, and teacher all in one. You have to check this out. It's a hint into the future.

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• Wow great stuff

  
  As reviewed by Boss kinda dude on 7/3/2007

  I've had this drum machine for about a year now, and not once has it had problems, complications. If you are a bass player like me you will find that this works great to get a good feel of rhythm, because it has a guitar and or bass input. Plus if you are also a recording engineer, you will find that it has midi ports so it works well as a controller for your studio too. You will however have to assign you instruments to each individual pad, and it has around 500 user tracks, u can delete, edit, compose those tracks. You can also take a premade track and change it and save it to your user space. One last thing when u play on one of the premade tracks it diplays the chords and note us should play. Oh but wait you will find it has lots of nice samples, and bass sounds and drum sounds to compose tracks. So buy it and enjoy!

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