I see they can be very useful but I don’t know if I need them or if I will ever use them. I have nothing now that would run with them and unless I built it I won’t have anything to use with them for a long time. Any advice on to why I should or shouldn’t get them would be greatly appreciated. I’m looking at the stage 2 or the stage 2 special addition at sweetwater. I am half tempted not to get them and get a nanopad to use with it. I saw a link where the man had five notes playing on each pad. I could program some chords and play them left handed and notes right handed, of course for the cost of the nano pad I could still swing the special addition one. Anyway thanks for bearing with a newb and all comments are greatly appreciated. Bertotti