Best Way To Record Trigerring Drum Samples?

[ZooBooBooZoo]

Hi all,
I'm new to the forum and also to live.
I know traktor and some other DAWs(Sonar, Cubase) So I'm not a complete noob, just a live one

Anyways, I'm thinking about the best way for me to record Drum Clips.

What I got:
1) Ableton Live 9
2) Traktor 2 (Routed & Synced to Live)
3) Edirol PCR-300
What I want to achieve:
I wanna trigger Kicks, Snares, HH etc Samples with the Pads on the PCR-300 and create a loop live(If I create the loop based on the song that is playing in Traktor it fits better than a generic loop).
I can't alyways play all the parts of the loop at once so I need to overdub my kicks and snares with snares etc.
I basically know how to do the overdubbing using session-record in live but the question is what's the best way to go about recording the triggered samples since these are sound samples and not a midi track.
I know there's a midi rack option in Live but I don't understand it fully(for one, it changes the soudn of the samples I place in it drastically :WTF )

Hope I'm clear with what I'm trying to achieve,
Thx in advance for the help,
ZBBZ.

 

[DM60]

I don't know how Ableton is changing the sound, but I will take your word for it. There are a lot of different ways you can approach this. You can create a drum rack put your samples to a corresponding MIDI note. If you have Suite, you have Sampler which let's you really determine attack, sustain, etc. Sampler one is rather complex and would require a lot of experimenting.

Drum Rack is your best bet, but there is one more option you can try, you can take your drum loop and let Ableton map it to MIDI. The other way is to use Ableton's loop functional and just loop it, create tracks and create a group and use multiple tracks.
Best bet is to look up some of the instructions that are on youtube, lot's of tools to use for this topic.