I find grid based systems like Ableton great for getting short loops together but making the jump to a finished track is a lot harder.
I have folders full of sketches I've built up in years of using it but very few things I'd call finished.
I have folders full of sketches I've built up in years of using it but very few things I'd call finished.
From there, I see it the way a sculptor might see a slab of rock, and start “carving out” the song.
The OP-1 is where I've found this to be especially the case, incredibly easy to make a loop on but never managed to make a full song on it, aside from using mutes/effects on a single loop to stretch it out into a full track