Is there a VST that anybody knows of (included in Sonar or otherwise) that you can use to load your own .wav samples (ie single hit drum sample) and assign these to a key on the virtual keyboard?
 
Just that I found some nice drum samples, and putting them all in manually, one drum type per pack, is a bit of a pain in the backside.  Would be far easier to do it in piano roll!
 
Thanks.

As far as I remember you should be able to add your own samples to Session drummer for drums.
 
http://www.tx16wx.com/
 
The above is quite a good free sampler that covers most bases.

Crowned One
As far as I remember you should be able to add your own samples to Session drummer for drums.
 
http://www.tx16wx.com/
 
The above is quite a good free sampler that covers most bases.

Thanks for that.  The only problem is I can never get any sound out of Session Drummer.  Every other soft synth I have works fine, but if I load up Session Drummer, it's just silent.
 
I will check out that other program, though.  Thanks.

I may be stating the obvious, but have you loaded an appropriate program? Session Drummer opens up "blank."

What about Cyclone? That's still in SONAR, isn't it?

Anderton
I may be stating the obvious, but have you loaded an appropriate program? Session Drummer opens up "blank."

 
I'm pretty sure I did, but it's not beyond me to do something so stupid to load a program so I will check next time I load up Sonar.  Thanks!

bitflipper
What about Cyclone? That's still in SONAR, isn't it?

According to the Sonar features page, Cyclone is there.  It's not one I've used so I will check it out.  So I can load my own drum samples into that to use.  Thanks. 
 

 
Won't dropzone also do that? I seem to recall doing that a long time ago for a drum sound. These days I use AD2, but used session drummer before I moved to AD2, and lots of other things in the past.
 
gabo

I made my own favorite drum kits set using wav samples like these and dropping them into Kontakt 5. It allows you to set things up easily. There are quite a few YouTube videos covering a how to on this topic.

+1 to Session Drummer 3. Here is a quick 3 minute video that walks you pulling sample slices with AudioSnap 2.0 as well (I forget which SONAR version you have).
 

I'm sure there are plenty of very inexpensive and free samplers. www.kvraudio.com is a good place to search.