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is there any programm or any other way to find the pitch of a drum kit i.e. the key that a kick is playing or the pitch of a snare?

well, kick drum frequencies are pretty hard to identify with the naked ear (for most of us) but you could always record the kick then raise it's pitch by one or two octaves and stick it in Simpler or Impulse and set the start/end times so that it loops just the short section of the bass drum audio (creating almost a humming sound) then record it to a track for a few minutes and play it back while playing a standard piano sound and find the note that sounds most similar, then you can fine tune the kick to whatever specific pitch you are looking for. Or play the looping kickhum audio track and hold a guitar tuner up to your studio monitors. Same would apply to a snare but lowering it by one or two octaves. I'm supposing you are refering to an acoustic drum kit? Also females commonly have better pitch perception than males if you can't quite get it right..

For kicks I useually just seperate the attack part from the rest and then stick on my own decay made from a sinus tone in soundforge using the FM synthesis, just make a whole octave worth of sinus tones and label them, then you allways know the pitch.