I don't know if you play (other) musical instruments, but finding a suitable sound is not rarely a waste of time.
I play drums, have a Tama drumkit and Zildjan cymbals.
I do have a V-drum as well, but, most of the time that is hooked up to my MIDI-hell, and the pads are somewhere in a bag...
Anyway, if I want to play something, I have to play something, not worry too much about the sound of the drums. If I play a good groove, it will sound good, even if I played that same groove on a pair of buckets.
The same goes for guitar.
If I play something on my Ibanez guitar, it has to be well played. Only when I get the riff smooth, it is time to look for some guitarfx to give it some more depth.
I see a lot of people looking for the right sound, while they are really still looking for the right notes to play.
I spend a lot of time tweaking and tweaking synths to get that right sound, and yesterday I had a great idea.
Once again I started to just sample my MIDI gear's clean soundbank.
I did it before but wasn't able to get a good recording, so I used that other shit and still had to eq the noise out (which of course will never work 100%).
But now I have clear clean 96 kHz 24 bit samples, straight for a V-drum percussion model to use in samplers.
The beats just sound tight right away.
Don't even need no fx, just decent composing.
If you want good samples or soundbanks, go hardware!!
No BS about a cpu that's infected because you watch the kinky kind of porn between music making,
No mp3-quality cheap downloaded sample pack and no extra harddrive and the fun of not finding back that great sample you once saved.
Just buy some old Premium model. You know, the candy that used to cost more then you could dream about, but now is too old to shine in the stores.
They have great sounds. Every time you drop a MIDI note.
Vintage is the way.
And at the end we still use just squares, sines and triangles.. . .. . ..
and a cut off with some resonance.
That will never change.