&gt;<i>I&#x27;ve produced&#x2F;recorded music for over 20 years and loops from other people are not only cheating, they are not your damned recordings and you sound like every other loop-arranger out there...</i><p>Actually there are songs using samples that are 10 times more original and unique than songs other people have totally recorded and played themselves.<p>You can be inventive and original using samples and you can be a copy-cat bore writing your own stuff.<p>For example, let&#x27;s compare a cheesy, but still huge classic and immediately recognizable &quot;U can&#x27;t touch this&quot; with tons of stupid-ass Michael Bolton cliched ballads or MOR rock.