[jackruston]

You could consider sample cds such as double platinum drums. The sounds are generally rock based and free of processing. You could maybe use recycle to cut them up quickly and manipulate them, then process however you want. If you want sounds which are already processed consider the liquid grooves groove control cd (or metamorphosis for a more future sound). These are already cut up and triggered but accompanying midi files. You can change tempo and swing etc. They work very well and are extremely good...But they're a certain style...you'd have to check out the demos on the ilio site to see if they'd work for you. If you want to create really personalised stuff...applying your own processing etc they might not be ideal.

I find that protools midi timing is generally not tight enough for drum samples. I use logic to create audio files for import. If you wanted, you could just hook up a sampler via scsi, import a fixed loop into recycle and adjust the tempo there. Then save and import into pt.

If you want really good drum sounds from a synth the roland xv synths have a very cool drums board if you want natural drum sounds. You could do equally well with sample cds though as that is effectively what the drum board is.

Good luck
Jack