Adding reverb on drums before throwing them on the MPC.

Well, I am doing my mixes inside the MPC but as it is known the MPC Reverb isn't the best it could be. So I thought about adding reverb on my drum samples before loading them on my MPC. Anyone who has tried that to share an opinion?
I am using Soundforge 10 to process my samples and I thought it would do the trick.

yeah its kinda ok, but not so much for chopped drums if you want to change up the tempo, If everything is stuff to tempo like glue then yeah no chops will mean hits wont have to have envelope settings to mimic the reverb fade or it can be too abrupt when sample ends.

I got hardware reverbs instead, that solved my problem and is better option imho. but you could monitor live through the plug in as well from a different input if you have that, but its gonna have latency but that is ok if you want to just hear it and set it up, that might be the best option instead. then record it and add plug in. not as good option if you are playing live.. though its doable.

yeah why not. Just like adding a filter/EQ or a compressor before transfering a sample to the MPC you can add reverb too. If you want to stay flexible you can render the reverb (or a number of different reverbs) as a reverb only sample (use the reverb as a send FX, NOT as an insert FX. set it to prefader and turn down the dry drums level to the master. turn the dry/wet knob to full wet).
With this method you can use the dry drumsound and the reverb seperately in the MPC.
Benefit: choose the best fitting reverb (if you sampled more than one), edit the envelope, level and filter of the reverb separately inside the MPC, You can even put the reverb a few ticks before or after the dry sample in the sequencer (or try a 32nd or 16th note later )

peace

@bliprock thanks for your answer mate, you shed some light here. I'm mostly using drum samples coming straight from drum kits so I thought it's kinda doable as you said.

I would love to use hardware reverb as well (I have even checked some Lexicon devices for that matter ) but I'm trying to work out a solution until I'm able to buy one of those.

@peterpiper that's some nice thinking, thanks for answering. Think i'm going to try as you proposed, mixing the dry and wet signal inside the MPC.

yeah that was outside of the box from peterpiper, eats up polyphony though, that is the only downside...... pretty cool, like wet only signal like some effects units do as well