I feel what youre saying, but none of the drum souds i have sound like the stuff you hear in modern rap. Hell the best drum kits i own are free! I understan you have to process them, but a polished turd still sounds like shit right? I dont have any hip hop vsts. All of mine are either synths or just traditional samplers none of which have hip hop drums. I have kontakt player but not kontakt.
At inverted, the goldbaby 808s are really good, but an 808 sound is hard to **** up. Im looking for acoustic samples that still have that hard, dry hip hop sound. Most kits i have are pre processed very unatural strangely sampled (the kick samples stop very suddenly instead of releasing smoothly) disorted very clicky etc which contributes to bad sound.
The best ice achieved was addictive drums layered over some 808 drums but addictive just doesn jave that modern urban sound.
I would sample off vinyl, but cant stand the noise and other imperfections, plus you usually dont get that natural release because of other instruments.
@Fnfup, $100 for drum samples is a bit steep because I don't know if I'll like them or not. Do you have any tracks I can listen to that used those drums. The sample beats on BFA site aren't great.