Obtaining drum sounds for Fruity Loops etc?

[hemiduty]

Not sure if this is the right forum to post this into, so I will post it in a couple.

 

Does anyone know where I can get good clean samples of drums to load into fruity loops or whatever? I need a single clean hit of each drum or cymbal etc., so I can load them in and write drum patterns for a metal cd I am going to record. I want them to sound real, not electronic.

I have already loaded in a few that I grabbed off some cds, but they don't really have the sounds I am looking for. The ideal would be a whole bunch of snare, kick, tom, cymbal, and hat samples I could sort through to find some I really like.

 

A couple more questions maybe someone could help with:

 

Is there a program that is more suited to writing the type of beats/patterns I need than Fruity Loops? Fruity has no time changing abilities, and is limited to 16/32/64 beats per bar, and as we have a lot of time changes and odd time signatures it makes it really difficult to write in Fuity.

I have Nuendo, Sonar2 and Cubase VST at home. I have written some stuff in Sonar2's midi track drum roll/piano roll, but I cannot see any way to load samples into it, and the sounds it comes with just don't cut it.

 

Also, with fruity loops, I loaded in some samples recently, saved them, and then the next day I opened it up and all the samples except 1 crash cymbal were written in red text, not the usual multiple colours they normally are. I tried to make some patterns but no sounds were coming out, except the crash cymbal. Any ideas? I use Fruity Pro2 and have noticed a couple of quirks with it since installing Win XP Pro.

 

So am I asking too much or is any of this possible?

 

Thanks.

[CoolDrum3]

I found this program called leafDrums somewhere at one time. I think it did pretty much everything you're asking. The user interface was not the most flashy, but it got the job done. A search on Google should find it. It should suit your needs nicely, as you can adjust the tempo, time signatures, and use your own sounds.

 

P.S.- If you can't find it, I may be able to dig it up at home somewhere.