Originally Posted by robinrenwick 
you can get a simple program, "midikeys" that turns your laptop keyboard into a midi keyboard, which can help. i know they have it for mac, not sure about pc, and its free. try googling it.
this works a treat with Logic plug-ins, still haven't figured out that re-wire malarky. just using it make drum beats on for the min, there just seems to be way too much going on.