Editing, editing, and re-editing can be damaging your creative process. It mostly happens when you're recording your clips in MIDI thinking that "OK! if I can't get it down right the first time I will fix it by editing the notes." It may work like this for a few clips but in the end it gets so tedious and tiring. Before too long you're stuck editing and all you have is a single 8-bar loop. What's more, you no longer want to trust or master your performance.
My music making tip here is to record your clips as audio so that you can't edit them even if you wanted to. If it sounds bad, just re-record and commit to it! By not being able to go back and edit you will find yourself moving forward recording new instruments, phrases, and scenes. It takes some patience and practice but once you're there you don't want to work with MIDI again. Surely, it's not the rule to rule them all. You may keep your beat sequences and samplers in MIDI.
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