909 is a synth anyway :) Doesn't the pitch of the kick dive though a bit on a 909 ... funny thing about the 909 kick was that a mate of mine who had a band called the secret used to swear that you couldn't sample a 909 kick ... and I laughed and said of course you can.

Anyway, got a 909 in the studio one day and gave it a go, plugged it into the Akai S2000, hit record and **** me, it doesn't sound right.

Took me a while to spot this one but the transient is so fast the Akai seemed to miss it completely, either didn't start recording in time or the A/Ds (a bit dodgy at the best of times) just couldn't cope with the dead short high transient at the beginning.

Anyway, modern technology means I've got several decent 909 kick samples now ... but was thinking more about non-percussion sounds that come out of the sample library in techno ... loops and things ...

If you want a challenge you could try synthing a mark tree (long thing with small tubular wind chimes ...)