Wow, I'm an idiot man. When I first started making beats, I thought using samples were whack because it isn't your own piece of work, but now I'm looking beyond that. My friend gave me a CD with a whole bunch of samples like a month ago but never popped it into my computer until now. Been messing with them for like 20 minutes and wow, I'm seriously amazed at what I've been hiding myself from because most of the samples were originally recorded live and it's hard to get that feeling with just playing a melody on the keyboard. And then when you combine other dope samples together, they make a beautiful piece of art, for real. Thank God for showing me this today, but I still can't get this MPD16 to assign audio data to each pad so I can have more fun with the drums and bang em out a lot harder.