1. I suppose the first question is this: Do you import and slice up beats for the primary purpose of extracting, essentially one-shot hits? (I realize that slicing a loop provides more than a 1-shot in that all the sounds have been mixed, there are reverb tails and other dynamics which work well together when using hits from the same loop?
2. I use FL now, used to use, well, ModPlug Tracker. I have always just inserted every hit/1-shot/sample by hand, adjusting levels and velocities individually to suit. Is this the same thing as using a slicer? I've been trying to make more electronicish music, but have never felt the desperate need for a slicer. I would just either create my drums or edit them out of a loop. So question #2 is:
Is a slicer/drum program just a faster way to do this. In otherwords, I can use pre-fab loops instead of generating hits or editing them out individually in an editor?
3. A lot of the I've listened to in the last 2 years has very fast drumriffs over it. (I literally stumbled, by accident, on to monotonik.com and downloaded Bubbleblower Sense. -hooked from then on - but this song doesn't have these fast drums I am speaking of). I was under the impression that the drums were just 2x in speed, though in the trackers this occurred by pitching a loop up, and editing out individual hits if desired. Is this true? Or have I missed out on some important technique.
COnclusion (
, sorry 
)I have faired pretty well creating realistic drumlines with samples, and have struggled more with the electronic-type drumllines and don't know if it's just mental/getting used to a new style, or I am ignant! My entrance into electronic music has been completely devoid of any community context and I am oblivious to any "scenes", other than K-V-R. My first listen to Numan's Cars was on a remix CD I bought after I heard some stuff on the web. Never been clubbing, never been to a rave, never heard the music on the radio - found some tunes on the web, walked into a record store and bought a compilation cd. So my drum programming is from the outside looking in. I ramble when it's late, too.
K-V-R has been a great help to expand my musical palette.