predefined loops or writing your own music?

[Basil Rush]

i dont agree with people who completely use loops to produce there music, because thats bollox, its not producing ... its cheating.

i think its ok to to chop bits up and use the odd perc loop and add that to your own sounds. but to use ready made loops to make muisc is bollox.

precisely.
I think that unless you can program a loop from scratch you shouldnt be able to use a loop. F*ck that. I sat there and made my own patterns for 2 years before realizing people used loops and better samples and such. Every one should crawl before you walk man.

And no-one should program a synth line till they can play the keyboard either goddamnit :)

I can never figure this one out. I mean if you make a track with a set of loops and you play it to someone and they jump around whilst it isn't all your creativity it's still a good track.

So maybe not using loops is in some ways a kind of personal satisfaction thing.

Of course if you have the craft down so you can make loops that sound as good as the ones in commerical libraries then you have one up on an awful lot of people as far as being able to do whatever your imagination can conjure up.

These days though I find my imagination far more limited than my ability to create the sound in the end. What i need is an imagination library :)