They are all tools. I'm glad we have loops. Samplers... great! EZDrummer, EZKeys, EZEverything... it helps!
There is SO much I don't understand even in Sonar so it is all a help.
I have a bit of disdain for Hip Hop songs that remix the music of past "real musicians". I guess there is a place for it but it seems, to me, to be insulting to my sense of music and creativity.
Obviously some people like it but I don't... that said, I kind of understand, I mean... pretty much everything has been done in the genres of RocknRoll, RnB, and Blues. People like LZ in the late 60s/early 70s covered most of the classic American blues tunes... and how many different ways can you play RnR ? So I understand remixing... I just don't care for it.
Loops and samples are mostly other people playing and we take their parts, rearrange them into out work and it surely helps. What if we had to hire someone to play every part we cannot play? That would SUQ big time. It is supply and demand... in that way it is GOOD!
Who knows where we will be or what we will be doing in ten years. Yesterday was (I think) Back to the Future day. They missed everyone having a cell phone to their ear... we don't know what the future holds but I would guess that it will be better that we could imagine... if the economy does not collapse and the world does not end. Eh...
 
Good things! Good times!! EZMix too!! Now if I could just hear those high frequencies, lol. I bet my neighbors can hear them!
 
I still have ACID Music 3.0, I have over 100gb of ACID loops. My favorites are the Mick Fleetwood loops. I've always considered Fleetwood and McVie to be on of the most solid drum and bass duos in history.. they just ROCK!!
I like my Beta Monkee loops too.
 
I want to get a Digitech TRIO pedal with foot controller, that sounds like something really useful and fun! I like to sit on the porch or in my chair and paly more than playing with my DAW. It is comfortable and conducive to creativity, IMO.
 
J 

There's an art form in sampling records and putting them together to make new tunes. I agree it's a bit lame when you get a hip hop track that's just plain stolen the hook from somewhere else, but if you look deeper there are some really talented sample sequencers out there. One of the classics was DJ Shadow's Entroducing album from the 90's, I had that on heavy rotation with my headphones & doobies....he managed to create some truly beautiful vibes by piecing together stolen samples on an old Akai sampler and making completely new tunes out of them. If done well, the marriage of say a guitar solo from one record over the bass line and drums from a couple of other records creates a unique sense of depth. The talent is in going through hundreds of records to find the right parts and having the musical judgment to know which are going to work together.

I liked the Utah Saints for repurposing sampled parts.

PilotGav
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All in good fun of course :-)

You can always take it in the experimental/krautrock kind of attitude ... then it becomes serious art ... !!! Craig loves it and so do I! Even better at different speeds ... try farts backwards!

sharke
 The talent is in going through hundreds of records to find the right parts and having the musical judgment to know which are going to work together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA-x7CQH8WQ
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wKtavg_OjE (caution - language beeps)

Moshkito
 ... try farts backwards!

Wouldn't that hurt a bit? 

craigb

Moshkito
 ... try farts backwards!

Wouldn't that hurt a bit? 

not for Pedro.  that's his superpower.