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I completely understand what you feel like. But from my experience it is essential to get beyond that point. You do not have to take a stylus loop and play it as your single rythmic element for 32 bars. That could be called cheating. But stuff like stylus is a wonderfull tool for adding additional loops and flavors. I usually have my main drums in midi with separated tracks for every drum, playing through battery. Then I have a trackfolder containing two or three tracks called "backing loops". These loops are not very dominant in the mix, just go to the background and thats where you can use all your rex loops or stylus rmx (african beats, weird bongos etc.) If you us an 8-bar scheme in you tracks you could use the chaos-designer in rmx do find a cool variaton of the loop at the end of each 8th bar. You could also assign distortion or delay to some of the slices, like off-beat. Well, I guess that should not be cheating otherwise anything apart from inventing you own musical genre could be considered as cheating.
Btw.: I always have to struggle with the same psychological problem when it comes to richness and complexity of the main melody and motifs. I usually start playing stuff on the piano and as i am a pioano-player i always make full use of both hands. that ends up in something that is way too complicated to get into a trance-track. but everytime i record something simple i have this feeling that it is cheating or "not real composing". that's why i hung a sign over my screen saying "keep it simple!" to allways make me remember...
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