'sup man... wat u need to do is setup your drums correctly... Wat i mean is u have to assign your drums approriately. Go the the program assign screen, from ther select either Drum 1-4, after you select the drum, scroll where it says name and then hit assign again. What u have just done is assign that partiuclar drum patter to that drum. hope u got it... also checkout out http://www.mpc2000xl.com/ It has a link to about the drum section on the mpc.