Quote Originally Posted by davethedrummer
personally, for live i dont really agree with using anything thats not your own composition
but thats only if your playing an actual fully live set. In my case some of it is live and some of it is djing, all done in ableton. so throwing loops about the place to enhance the overall product is ok in my book.

in a studio situation i think its perfectly acceptable to sample tunes. you do have to be careful what you choose ie the bells.. i dont want one of my tracks to suddenly turn into a mills track.. and if i was to take a sample or loop it certainly wouldn't have that bell sound. i'd go for a loop near the start or end, put it through recycle and chop it up, low pass filter and so on, then use it as a breakbeat or something. thats how i make a lot of subtle rhythms.

on the other hand if you're lucky enough to have the talent and patience to create everything from scratch then fair play.