yeh i've got the philip rees unit too, came with the 303 when i got it. interesting though as i was thinking about getting the doepfer box, guess there's no need now though...cool

actually got stuff working a lot better now, basically using Live to trigger the sampler and it's all sync'd to the 909 pretty tight

i do the patterns on the 909 and send midi to to trigger a sound in the sampler, record the midi from the 909 into live and then have that play the sound back, which frees up the 909 sequencer to make the next pattern - bit complicated but i guess that's what to expect when using a 20 year old drummachine next to modern day stuff

basically it seems to me that i've spend the last three years properly working out how to get all the gear working together, now i need to concetrate on what's most important - making music

thanks for the responses