Good day all! I was was wondering if you guys can point me to the right direction... I just purchased a new keyboard (Korg sv-1) and wanted to have drum beats/loops
to play it with (funk, jazz type drum patterns). What would be the best software to use or get? I want Real recordings of drum loops where I could also add fills/start/end on the fly by just hitting a button on my laptop (ala drum kits on some keyboards). One thing i don't want to do is do the drum pattern myself...I want it pre made already... Thank you so much and hope to hear from you guys sooN!

bump... just wanted to keep this alive... i really need some directions guys! Thanks!

I'm a big fan of "Logic". It comes with all four kinds of drums, Midi loops, 4 to 16 bar recordings of a human playing an acoustic drum kit and single hit samples. I can edit the loops, make my own or add more from a third party. And then it comes with a virtual drum machine too (sliders and knobs to can move with a mouse or asign to a control surface). You can control this real time with any device, a drum pad, keyboard, midi drum pedal or whatever.

But Logic is a huge and complex beast. and you may not something so general purpose if all you want is a a drum loop. The most popular specialized drum software might be toontrack's "EZdrummer" and related add-ons
http://www.toontrack.com/products.asp?item=7

But my preference was to buy into the big package and then I can do a "guitar loop" or piano rhythm loops and it all works the exact same way and I don't have 30 software packages to learn.

People here tend to be into classical solo piano music. They don't use drum loops under Chopin. But I got into this whole area because I wanted music to go under my video slide shows. Logic is perfect for this. You can "compose" a hack soundtrack using loops in 30 minutes that keeps exact time to the video.

Check out Stylus RMX by Spectrasonics. I don't own it but I've heard great things about it.

http://www.spectrasonics.net/instruments/stylusrmx.html