EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

I picked up drum CD for EXS24 that's pretty good.  It has all those 
drum machines that were used to create the loops by Dead Can Dance, 
FSOL, Massive Attack, and so on.  It's got the old Roland, Linn, 
Akai, Oberheim, and Korg drum kits (and more) in native EXS24 and the 
CD was only $25. 

Here are a few questions I'm curious about (forgive my amateur status)

1) When a drum loop is sampled, how do they stretch it to be the 
tempo THEY want for their song as opposed to being forced to use the 
tempo it was originally sampled at?

2) Even if they sample a main beat, what about drum fills or drum 
part solos (such as a  breakdown that eliminates hi-hats, or is just 
a bass drum with no snare but still has hi-hats, etc).

3) For more recent CDs like Conjure One, do you think other parts are 
sampled (ripped) like the accoustic guitars or little melodies and 
riffs here and there?  Or do you think it's 50/50 ripped and 
original?  I did read an interview where Fulber said the Conjure One 
album sat on the shelf for one year because sample clearence took so 
long.


Thanks,
Mark






--- In exs-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert Black <rsblack84070@y...> 
> I am not familiar with Michael Cretu but Rhys actually
> samples everyone else.  If you listen to Future Sound
> Of London - "Paupa New Guinea", Enigma - "Sadeness",
> Deep Forest - "Savanah Dance", Dead Can Dance -
> "Persian Love Song", Tori Amos - " Caught A Lite
> Sneeze " and Several Songs from Massive Attack you
> will hear a good portion of the samples from the
> Symantic Spaces and Karma.  They do use alot of
> organic kits both played by a drummer and sampled. 
> Then you will just have to experiment with the FX till
> it sounds similar.  I have tried the same approach to
> get something that sounds similar to their drums but
> so far have been unsucessfull.
> 
> Since most of their sampled drums are copywritten I
> don't think it will be very likly for them to put out
> a sample CD.  You can go to the conjure one website
> and ask Rhys if he would do something like that.  He
> reads the posts quite often.