Thanks Ollie. I use MHE all the time on rides and crashes, as you suggest (not hi hats). I haven't tried it in a while on drums, but it's good reminder, so I will do so.
Have a think about Seq Hits for drums. It was one of the few high spots in my abortive drum sampling efforts! The downside is - for it to work properly it seems to me you need to do the sampling at a similar tempo to the final song.
One other thing I've been doing recently is switching the voice limit to 1 for kick / snare / toms. My rationale for doing this is that e.g. for kicks, I managed to convince myself that the tail of one sample could interfere destructively with the following kick sample. Also, on the snares of some kits I thought I heard a weird flanging effect due to the snare rattle tail of one sample comb filtering with the tail of the following sample. Maybe this is all in my imagination, and I should get out more... However, setting the voice limit to 1 should, it seems to me, eliminate any potential "over-lapping sample" gremlins on kick / snare / toms. Obviously different for especially rides, because there you DO want overlapping samples. Overall, though, as I thought about this more and more, voice limits >1 felt to me like it was asking for overlapping sample trouble on drums...
In fact now I AM going out. To the gym! Thx for the help.
Rgds,
Mark
