Are using presets and samples cheating? asking for a friend

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A storyteller, interactive media creator, Canadian Hip Hop poet, 360 VR Founder MixItMedia,  and Communications, Content & Experience Director.

If efficiency and working smart is cheating :-)

Anything that speeds up the workflow 🙏

Presets, samples, pre made templates, ai daw such as https://github.com/tuneflow/tuneflow-py

Everyone uses everything, it’s how we use and how much of what. :)

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Yeah i agree, it’s good to know how to tweak and edit sounds at core.

Also, I'll expand. I do feel learning the nitty gritty of how to do things step by step is valuable, BUT getting the job done is the job! Use any tool available to bring the vision to reality. You can always revise and tweak new versions and styles.

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Absolutely not. 
They are just instruments like anything else. You are in charge of painting a sonic picture with them. And you can make a bad song with killer presets.

I would echo what everyone else said, whatever gets the ideas and the vibe together quickly. But I would say that the more that generic sounds and patches are used the less unique the song production can sound, but then you can always fuck the sounds up with effects.