Seems like a lot of work to me...kind of like making your own brushes, before you decide to do a painting.

haha i'm not sure exactly what you are referencing but i still got a chuckle :)

This seems to be the way it works for me.
 
I've written a song, laid down a few tracks, then I think. Hmm, a nice ethereal sound would work really well over that transition into the pre chorus, I think there was a nice one that I downloaded only a few weeks ago. I drag and drop it onto a new track, add a few effects, perfect. Then I need to fatten up that tom break in the chorus to make it really stand out. I add some tom hits over the existing ones I recorded, "voila" great tom sound.
 
It can be time consuming to go through your loops and shots to find just the right sound, then mix it with whatever you need to make it sound right, but in the end if it's just what your song needed then it's worth the time and effort, no?

ok i had mispoken a bit earlier.....although i said beatscape which could also be used i had meant to say DROPZONE which i was playing around with over the weekend.
 
anyways.....here's my expected rant :) :
 
thanks for that suggestion scook i downloaded both tx16wx and shortcircuit 1.1.2
the tx16wx i immediately started dragging and dropping so out of the gate that one seems more intiutive.
question with either of these or both:  so if i take my sample pack above and map a hit or loop to every key on my controller - do all of these samples then get copied into a TX16wx specific folder?  what i mean is - will i then be duplicating these audio files?  to me this is a great way to be "one and done" with my samples so that i could just load up "sample bank X" and it will have that whole list ready to play immediately.  with my current rig however that duplication wouldn't really be an option (HD space is too precious)
 
.sfz.....is this essentially what i'm suggesting above?  that i have a bunch of samples mapped out to my keys but no audio needs to be re-saved elsewhere?  it's just a text file with instructions. 
 
loops - why is it that with both dropzone and tx16wx i can only get these loops to cycle twice?
i thought the idea of a loop is that it is endless and i can hold that "note" for as long as i desire?
 
how do i really use a .wav loop of a drum beat?  i would obviously have to get the beat to match my current project - is that possible with a regular .wav or does this need to be stretched/compressed with software?
is this where rex2 files come into play?  a rex2 is essentially a converted .wav file that can sync to the beat of a given project?  and to create these it would be as simple as using Recycle?
 
as always....thanks for reading my overwhelming confusion :)