[tlester]

Let me clarify... I'm not really looking for your "musical" approach. I'm looking for more of the tools or technical process you use. For example... in my experiment, I just created 4-8 bar files timed to the tempo of the track and duplicated that a bunch of times for a track. For the same thing (a loop based track), what do you do or use? Are you using Live or Recycle for that sort of thing or possibly Syncronic? While what I did worked, it seems a bit barbaric and like there should be a better way.

Do you program your drums and other parts to samplers or do you use tools like Stylus RMX or something similar?

What's a good base set of tools to quickly put rough songs together quickly? I.e. what sampler? A looping tool? Drum tool? Etc?

-Tom