I liked this digital synth much more than the JD-800. It really could do a lot of nice things. editing sounds was a bit hard, but the built in effects were nice! It had Weak drum sounds, but there were a few bass sounds that were usable. This thing had wicked strings if you phased them and threw reverb and delay on em! It would just create a killer ambient sound that could stab you in your guts! We had the sampler option, it worked okay, but it was not replacement for a sampler. The sampler was an add on box that had midi like connections, you would sample into the box and then dump it into the DPM3. It was neat, because you could do some weird filtering type stuff on the samples. A very versatile keyboard indeed. But I do not recommend using it alone. Gary and i used this mostly in 1993-94 on the weird vortex stuff.