- I want FXpansion's DR-008 back. Best thing f*ckin' EVER!
- I want FXpansion's Geist-alike features to become a part of DR-008, not the other way around (which never worked out well anyway, pretty happy I didn't bet my money on it...)
- I want NI's Battery to be a decent piece of software rather than that POS that they turned it into with version 4 (which, to my utter horror, I will be forced to use once I get a new computer).
- I would love to see a pattern player like Logic's Drummer, but I would want it so I could a) import my own (or third party) patterns easily and b) kind of "train it". Unfortunately, I think the elegance of Logic's Drummer can only be had from something deeply integrated in your DAW.
- I want everything Stylus RMX does integrated, too.
In general, in addition to the usual things such as nice drum kits (which I'm sort of less interested in personally) and patterns (see above) I would love to see a drum machine allowing me to roll my own stuff easily. For instance, I want to slice a loop, spread the slices over the keyboard and extract the resulting MIDI data (by now Logic does that quite well), with the Geist portion (possibly enhanced by AI stuff) to kick in and automatically map, say, all kick slices to just one key.
As far as patterns go, a nicely integrated pattern sequencer (/w MIDI drag'n'drop into either direction) would be welcomed.
And there should be internal synthesis. That's what sat the DR-008 apart - and to this day, there's nothing comparable. Yes, Logic's Drum Machine Designer has caught up a bit, but it's still pretty far away.
That was just top of my head. Fwiw, I wrote all that down in a rather long post @ KVR over a decade ago, people seemed to like most ideas - and yet, anything like that still doesn't exist (Geist possibly being the closest, but it's not suitable for any realistic drums).