you've got an excellent ear Sampler. nicely compiled samplage and patternage. as to your comment about the 808 and 909 samples, i think they're intentionally fairly faithful to the old Rolands' sounds. run em through all the modifying fx pedals you want. your patterns are really great. :) (or you can always go the machiniste route. i think Xonnox [?] has one of the most popular sets of one shots in the library--or click remix on some user who's got the sounds you like and see how they got it :)