Dunno - it is tremendously satisfying to load a big .mid and assign voices to 24 or so tracks... And have it sound good in the end. A huge pain, yes. But worth it -- the end result can be very unique to the engineers' (the guy making the voicing decisions - us) style. Like arranging a piece, but muc...
... I am also quite under-whelmed by the Audio Interface market. I'd love to see a semi affordable interface w/ pristine pre's, more routing options, multiple head-0phone outs, MIDI pass-through()as seen on i-MIDI connect 2), universal (as in able to be used w/ iPad), built in USB hub, balances and...
If you're playing the pads as drums, I think the problem is that the spd-s is not sending velocity like you want it to. OK, I guess the drum sound might not be responding to the midi velocity. I've personally never seen a drum patch that didn't respond to velocity... If you're just triggering clip l...