Comment by coldtea

>Drum machines are instruments. Even if sequenced, drum machines are live instruments and they require skill.

Only if played live via it's pads or hooked to MIDI drum triggers.

If it's sequenced from some computer program like Logic or through step input, then it's not used as a "live instrument".

>I never play the same thing twice

99% of tracks however do. Are we discussing what rarely happens, or what's the most typical case in pop music, what TFA covers?