I can't say enough good things about the sblive. Simply the best semi-pro soundcard you can buy.

The Drumkat is what Alex uses for all the cool drum tracks. If you really want to hear him smokin check out Hot For Teacher by Van Halen.

It took alot of convincing but this the version of cakewalk that turned me into a believer. The 32 bit effects are killer.

This is what I have plugged into the joystick input of the sblive. It's a Yamaha CBX-K1