u/Britt_Happens

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I am a high school teacher and I want to make my teaching a little more entertaining by adding sound effects - rim shot, Jeopardy! timer, laugh track, applause, reggae horn, ding ding ding, womp womp, crickets, etc. It looks like I can pick up an affordable sampler pad on marketplace and I have a powered PA speaker with RCA, mic, and aux inputs. 

My question to you is: can I use the sampler pad directly with the PA speaker or do I need to also have a laptop hooked up with it?

Any and all advice you can offer will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.