Cubase 6 - getting to work as a hardware drum machine?

Wow you don’t know how much I appreciate your time and experience on that reply.

Yes I do nod with you on some stuff especially the akai/ableton chat. However. I really need to be able to integrate my axiom 49 keyboard as that will be for my live walking bass lines (via vsti bass sound) and I hope to use the 8 pads on that controller to triggerthe fills and variations.

Basically id love to replace my ketron midjay drum machine with laptop/cubase/kbd combo. I’m really stumped Not sure how to go about this.

Thank you again

Alastair