Is music creation with samples any less talented ?

Ok, Im probably going to annoy more than just a few people here, but in short..yes.

Edited by ditheramb - Yesterday at 12:34am

Doesn't matter where the music comes from if it sounds good. A lot of people on the site started with Ejay or Acid and progressed from there, it's just a starting point for most people. There's no point getting precious about it all, anything that encourages someone to make some music is cool. There's a lot of very very cool tracks with samples on, if you move on and start to make progress playing an instrument or programming your own sounds then that is cool as well. If people like the music doesn't matter where it comes from really does it. And I just won a sample cd so I'm gonna use it if it kills me lol :)

Leaning towards Steve on this...

Nail > head, Steve.

It obviously takes more talent to create a track from scratch than it does to use samples, in the same way it takes more talent to build all your instruments from bits of wood than it does to use factory-made instruments, or simply composing a bit of music for an orchestra to do the hard bit in playing it. 

However, as Steve also said, talent has no bearing on the quality of the final piece of work.  Often, a piece of music containing samples can be better than a totally original piece. 

I think the trick is in hiding the fact there are samples in there.  Tracks with samples slapped in like bits of debris in a shanty don't appeal to me.  Regardless of how interesting the sample is, if it's badly placed or mindlessly repetitive then the song is going to sound crap.  Talent then becomes necessary to make it an integral part of the whole.

I agree with Steve