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I would get a little mixer if I were you... If all you need is something for routing everything to your speakers, I have a Mackie DFX6 that works quite well for this. If you want to record as well then you should get either an audio interface to use with your computer or a multitrack would also ...

If you get the book Behind the Beat, you can see that Jay Dilla used an ESX-1, and Madlib has one in his studio.

here's how it works, the esx's midi is controlling two instances of battery on the two synth parts which are loaded with all my one shots, drum parts sequence impulse kits in ableton, on both the esx and the emx so I can change drums, the five synth parts on the emx are controls for five fm8 synths ...