and some casual gigs; it's not as nice as the Novation but I can take it on a bicycle and/or BART. I have an older PCR-30 for gigs (which is slightly broken), and PCR-300 in studio.. The advantage of these devices is that they can have any sysex message programmed, not limited to predefined GM/GS messages.... (this is very useful for older digital synths such as my TX-81z). I almost bought the M-Audio but returned it because it didn't have this functionality..