Funny thing happen when I was purchasing it, the salesmen said not many people buy these machines anymore, they buy the drum software instead.

One of the coolest things you can do with this unit is to buy 4 pedals [SF5U] made for this

This thing is crazy good.

That being said, one thing this excels at is being a jam-along box for guitar practice, which is pretty much what I have ended up using it for