The age-old question about the dark art of Resampling

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Thanks, TweakHead, for the detailed response!

The latter half of your post was most helpful, but I get the technical side for the most part - having worked in Ableton for years, and having a background in recording. I know how to record/cut/adjust, and how to employ a sampler. I'm poor with conveying ideas and putting things into words, but I'm mostly having trouble with the creative side of the 'resampling' question. It's such an open-ended process that I've been having trouble nailing down an effective workflow. For example, I don't know whether to write a whole bassline - modulation included - and simply record it and add more modulation after-the-fact, or to take that bassline note-for-note into a sampler, to play with timestretch, granulation, etc. etc., and re-create an entirely new sound. I'm finding that once I involve a sampler into things, I'm losing some element of creativity.