It might not be as orgasmic as playing real drums, but making beats on a drum machine is still a shitload of fun. With Akai’s new XR20, you can even take the shitload of fun on the road. It’s billed as a “portable beat production station” loaded with 700 sounds geared toward R&B and hip-hop beats. Other key features of the XR20 include:

• 99 preset patterns and 99 user patterns
• Backlit LCD
• Bright, glowing, backlit pads that follow the beat
• Microphone input and headphone output
• Pattern Play Mode (different patterns can be triggered from individual pads)
• Drum Roll/Note Repeat feature
• $499 MSRP