OK, that's funny... I originally read the topic as "Do all the top producers pirate their stuff and end up with infected computers?"

It can be incredibly fiddly to get it to work right sometimes, but jBridge is what you want for this... it will let you wrap 64 bit VSTs in 32 bit wrappers and vice versa.


Good stuff.

I call my drumkit the Frankykit (for Frankenstein), I tend to re-use it most of the time as a bit of a signature sound.


I use EQ isolation to pick out the different parts of the drum (see my attached hertz chart)... so, I may take the punch from that one, the click from this other one, etc. 


It's a fair amount of work to do it this way, mostly because you have to keep trying your drum sounds in realistic situations to get a proper feel for how it will work.  It took me quite a few iterations to fix my kit up because it wasn't subtle enough... but I'm pretty happy with where it is now.

Rekordbox, SDJ, or Mixed in Key are a few programs that automatically list the Key of tracks read.

Mixed in Key works pretty decently if you don't have a lot of time to futz about.  It's not perfect, but it will usually give you somewhere to start on the keyboard and you can then plink on your keys from there to suss it out.