Fools don't use ONLY drum machines like they use to do in the hey-day....Most of em use keyboards and even when they get themselves an MPC they sync it with sound modules and keyboards and all sorts of bullshit...
Get yaself a Korg keyboard and make yaself happy...
you could use the MPD 16 from Akai
which is a midi controller , it comes with its own sound or your can connect it to a source e.g keyboard and play those sounds from the MPD