I’m inclined to agree. Pick/make something quickly and move on. Arrangement, mood, space, performance: that’s the real magic sauce.
(My music’s fairly pedestrian so don’t take my words for anything).
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THIS - I also build my kits in AR based on the overall feel of a loop, and not in a ‘sound-by-sound’ mode. As the loop plays, I tweak all sounds until the overall mood falls into place. In this process, I also explore ideas for the AR performance macros.
Literally every sound can be transformed into a drum sound using the right envelope , lfo , filtering or what not … i enjoy the process of taking waveforms from my analog gear and tweaking those into the digitakt into all kinds of percussive ellements . I did a bit of sampling (records) in the past , but now i stick to creating from scratch… and i make new sounds for every track … i don’t feel the need to have a collection of thousands of sounds to scroll through… it would only distract me …
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