This way of approaching the Octatrack seems very fun to me, and I wish the way I wrote songs kind of fit this workflow.
But when I have a song, that’s it. That’s the structure. If the verse is 18 bars long, it will always be 18 bars long no matter what and I don’t want it to be fluid. Like I’ve said though, intros/outros/transitions are a different thing–those can be fluid and I’m having a lot of fun playing with what I get out of those.