Yo! I've had the Korg triton for about 5 years now, and the Arg. does not matter in making hip hop that much. To me it sounds too machine made w/o emotion. Yo, if theres anything else you need to know, let me know. Theres not that much that I dont know about the board. But all I can tell you is that I dont use it by itself no more, all I use it for is a controller for my modules and some other bass lines or percussions. The trinton sucks crazy stupid (ina bad way). And there are many other samples you can take w/o having to get clearance. find old jazz albums and take a little E.P. or sax/trumpet and work off that with your own drums and bass line and what ever sound you want to add. there are mad ways to sample with out folks know you sampled!!!