Sampling every move

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“All the time while I’m messing around with sounds, I’ll have SoundForge running in the background, recording the computer output, capturing everything I’m doing. Then, once I’ve finished messing around, I’ll stop SoundForge recording, and take a break to disconnect myself from the session. Then I’ll come back later, scan through the waveform, pick the best bits, then save them to my folder. Then I’ve got new, fresh, sounds – like using homemade ingredients to make a pie! And when you’re writing another track, you can scan through and find new bits from previous tracks. Only then will I sit down and start writing the actual music! I know it’s time to start writing a track when I feel really excited and buzzing, and I’m like: “Holy crap, I can’t wait to use that sound I made!” And I really want to get all these sounds into the tune – they get my juices flowing!”