Programming: prior or during songwriting?

[annikk.exe]

How do you guys work programming into your songwriting?
Do you write all your patches beforehand, then pick from the patches you've written when writing a song, modding patches a little here and there to make them fit better?

Or do you start completely from scratch and program the sounds as you write?


I've historically always taken the latter approach but I've been finding it can take a long time for me to develop a good sound on the Virus. It's probably mainly due to my inexperience with it, I guess as I get more and more used to it programming will become much faster.

What approach do you guys find works best?


-Annikk