Interesting...
The way I do it still means that I get multiple audio tracks all with the separate tracks for kicks, snare groups, and high end, but I can play them relatively live (depending on the number of tracks of course). I make sample layers on the MPC and EMU all going to their own outputs, and then while playing live off the pads off the mpc or/and the pads from my HPD they are being recorded into the PC to audio (on their own tracks) - never quantizing. I just can't imagine not playing the drums and just copy'n'pasting every single hit. Doing it this way means I can have people jam with me too which is damn fun.
I guess technically (in the above paragraph) I am skipping midi sequencing too by doing this, but that's not always the case as I do sometimes record live bashing onto the MPC sequencer when just getting ideas down.
Guess the cool thing about electronic tunes is there are heaps of different ways to get ideas out there, but fun is the aim of the game for me for sure.
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