> mark, if loops are so easy to make and the real skill is to blend and change them, why dont u make your own loops then and play with those?
wouldnt you feel better if you knew that everything in your tunes are your ideas and your work ?

we do this for sure. my loop library is a miss mash of mangled sampled cd's and mess arounds with reason, cubase add vairous midi instruments and rebirth etc etc. what i like about loops from sample cd's is it gives you feelings and grooves that you wouldn't have usually put in yourself on a midi sequencer or with reason etc. it's a very quick way of getting different inspiration.

but i do totally see where you're coming from. it would give you TONNES more satisfaction knowing everything was 100% your own and still be able to get the same sound. give me more time on this planet and i'll build up more and more personally created loops and reduce what i use from sample cd's. i'm heading that way anyway. i've only been producing for about 8 years and only really got half decent at it in the last three.

for example bass guitar loops can make really interesting basslines. i'd love to record my own but i can't play the guitar. so i chop and paste a guitar loop and eq it to my liking. perhaps add distortion to flatten it out a bit. i dunno there's load you can do. this is a quick and effective way of adding something i wouldnt normally be able to add to my work. which in turn helps the creative process and keeps my fresh with new ideas. down the line - yes - we'll get a session musician in record him on the guitar.

but for now this is sometimes the only option for us to test out different ideas and sounds. it works for me and i always feel excited and can be inspired really quickly in the studio. it never felt like this with only midi.