Certainly for a great part. On the other hand, there are other factors which play a role when you are sampling your own sounds creatively, which prevent frustration setting in and throwing you back in the arms of the CD-Rom manufacturers. Seldom does this lead to anything individual or interesting. Long, modulation-intense sounds are often interesting as hybrid stacked sounds, but use up most of the sampler's memory capacity. Today there are of course good editors which can produce almost perfect crossloops, but this is where I personally get reluctant.
Loops are short sounds repeating and can be used to save memory.
The musical value is most important. We have in the past spent up to one week working on a handful of original sounds - commercially seen, this is pure luxury, seen musically, this is an absolute necessity in order to have as many individual sounds as possible for our studio and live productions. As you know, we have done numerous Hollywood filmscores which gave us the opportunity to conduct a number of sound experiments. I had just purchased the wickedly expensive Publison DHM 89 B2 with the keyboard 2000. Shortly thereafter, I commented In an interview with a English magazine, that this way of storing and replaying a sound would be big business in a few years.