depends really, from a listeners perspective it makes no difference but as a producer its a strange feeling when you get a sample pack break and cut a little and it sounds great, but next time when you use an unprocessed funk break or some single hits you got from nowhere special, and you just cant make it work? but like i said, thats a crafts pride kind of thing, for producers. the listeners dont care where you got your samples from. its a strange duality. because we are pretty extreme when it comes to sourcing our samples.
Real talk mystery head man. I have taken to listen to Breaks I have collected(dnb ones), chopping them up to see the rhythms and trying figure out how best to arrange my own stuff.
One way to creatively use the Bass samples you gather, is to use them more as a wave table for your sampler. Im so noob is unreal, but constantly amazed at what you can do with a sampler, so why restrict that avenue for your productions.
I understand the pride thing, but on some occasions it could be self defeating, obviously if you pick up learning your way around making synth patches, is a good ruote, but as I am still experimenting, saving to buy the gear I want to work with, I can mess around with some samples, to get something going. I do try with what I have on board now, fiddling with Operator in Abelton quite a bit, but it really takes me a long time to get anything good going, and probably not even good, just pleasing to my noob ears.
Emperor masterclass for monolith, you see that tune is nearly all sample based. Good enough for Kasra, good enough for me
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Oh and to help you along, have a look on The Grid, there is a nice set of 808 Kicks and guy has given away. He rcorded them through tape, and wanged em through a Keeley Modded DS-1. Some gold in that pack! Not a lot but about 20 nice hits!