Drum replacement

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"Hi, I'm in Delaware."
I don't know if this has been asked explicitly here, so I apologize if it has. Pipeline, I know you covered this a bit in some of your tutorials, but I'm just wondering if there's a nice easy way to do this:

I have four tracks of drums that I recorded. OHs, snare, kick (Glyn Johns). I'm not getting much tomminess out of the toms (for lack of a better expression), so I close-miked those later and got some samples. I tried manually adding them in on top, but they sounded really bad because I was never playing on exactly the right beat. So today in class my teacher was cleaning up some drum tracks we recorded in Pro Tools using the magic beat detective guy when we had only used two mics. I thought something like that would only be useful with lots of mics, but I guess not. So I guess what I'm saying is, is there something nice and easy like that to use in Reaper so I can clean up my drumming and add in some more powerful toms? The song really requires powerful toms, so it kinda sucks when all I'm getting is WHACK WHACK WHACK from all of them.

Thanks.
 
Its not working to zoom in, place some markers where the original toms were and then to just add some tom samples at those spots?

If you want to shrink and stretch you can easily enough with alt-left click-drag
 
Well, I mean... it seemed like a lot of work to go in and replace everything one at a time because all I'm hitting at the part I want to fix is the toms and the snare occasionally, in eigth-note patterns, so there's a lot to go through. I was just hoping there was an easier way to get them all aligned correctly automagically and the do a trigger or something.
 
You could get something like Drumagog. But even with that you would have to copy the overhead audio to a different track and mute everything but the tom parts. It's not quite as much work.
 
Yeah, I thought you had something like that. I'll give it a shot. Thanks!
 
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