Are we musicians getting too spoiled with loop recording? Too be honest I'd say that I myself am Loop recording is a nice feature, but are we musicians coming to rely on it too much with our music? At this point in my music I cannot even think of owning a keyboard that doesn't loop record. My PSR-550 may be low end, but it at least will loop when recording styles.. I remember years ago when I owned a Casio CTK series. The sounds weren't the greatest, and it only had 6 tracks for recording with no loop settings at all.. Plus song length was quite limited... However with that keyboard I didn't lose the creative flow with my music. Everything I recorded was done in realtime including entire drum tracks. I remember how the music had such a natural flow to it. It's funny when I think about it.. When I bought a PSR-540 several years ago, I didn't know it loop recorded for the longest time.. I was too lazy to look into "style creation".. I was quite content with the preset drum patterns, and when I recorded songs on the 540 I always recorded them in realtime as I did in the past. Months after owning the keyboard I looked in the manual and read the style recording section. Eight months after owning the keyboard I read the it would loop when recording styles. From that point I was looping everything with the styles. Sure loop recording speeds up the process of recording a song, but I feel that the natural flow of the music is greatly compromised with it. I guess over the years I have gotten lazy with recording my music and have heavily relied on using loops. So how do others here feel about this?

Squeak