Quote Originally Posted by crbn
Not to sound picky here DB, but how far do you really wanna take that comment? What about that 909 kick you used last time? Which japanese engineer created that......? and that sample set of a real drum kit you used last time...? etc etc ad nauseum.
Oh come on, thats ridiculous. Are you trying to say that using a sample of a 909 kick is the same as nicking the main riff from well known tracks and using it as the basis of your own track? All use of samples is not the same, theres samples and samples. I really hope you weren't serious when you typed this.
Well, if we want to get picky. I generate my kicks using a kick generator.
Usually a thing called MetalBD, or Microtonic.
Essentially you fiddle with the way the sinewave is treated, and then there`s a noise generator, I won`t go into that.

As for other samples. Yeah, I do use them, in a more and more limited capacity these days.

But the point is, you can use samples creatively, and mould them to your own sound.

Wholesales ripping of other peoples loops and phrases, can`t be compared in any way.


Compare it to another art.
A writer can take the individual words, or theme of another text, and totally rearrange it, to form a new body of work. And no one will know.

However if entire phrases, sentences or paragraphs are stolen from another writer and used.
This would be called. Plagiarism.

Why is it acceptable in music?