I've got far too much electronic drum equipment for one guitar player, but I've got the following:
-Drumkat (V1.0) (even the people at drumkat were surprised one of these still exists, as they're on v8.0 now). It's got 10 pads on it and 8 assignable trigger inputs. I love this thing.
-Tama hexagonal trigger pads
-Dauz 5" pads
-Some old Pintech pad
-Pintech bass trigger
-dDrum bass drum trigger
-Simmons kit with hexagonal pads
Basically, I bought the drumkat for my old drummer (we used to have two drummers in the band. one with v-drums, the other with an acoustic kit). The V-drummer quit, so instead of going the click track route, I added some electronics to the kit (drumkat and ddrum bass drum trigger) so we could still get the feel live. There, I sent the midi information to a K2000 rack module that I loaded up with heavily tweaked samples and from there had assignable outputs for the PA (bass drum and toms, snare, hats+cymbals). It was a great working setup.
If you have the chance to use your own samples, I'd recommend it. Something like the Drumkat or a Roland SPD-20 attached to a midi input to your computer can allow you to play "live" drums through Reason, BFD or whatever. It's a lot better than bashing away at a keyboard, you can play it at home, and if it's 2 in the morning and you want real sounding drums.... connect your module, put on your headphones and you can have a silent studio. I love the Pod for the same reason.
The Simmons kit I bought only because it was so cheap and I couldn't pass it up ($100). It's got individual outputs for every sound (which is great for recording) and the second I turned it on, I hit the snare and instantly recognized it from "Blue Monday" by New Order. Kind of a cool kitsch factor.
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