EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Not too long ago a fellow-producer pointed me to Stylus and I've 
just read a thread about it extending into a debate about 
Phatmatik. I saw the Stylus demo-video and downloaded the 
PhatmatikPro demo.
Now what strikes me here is that eventhough an instrument like 
Stylus seems to come bundled with an extreme amount of loops 
and sounds to work with, which is great offcourse, again 
somebody has found a way to make some serious Do off of 
people not able to come up with their own creations from 
scratch...
"whaddayamean O.?"
Well, in the demo-video of Stylus it's presented as an incredibly 
powerfull thing, which I'm sure it is, but what in the WORLD has 
a gadget such as this one (and the obvious tons of clones to 
follow) have to offer that is actually new??? Isn't this a simplyfied 
way of mangling loops till they fit nicely and make up a new one?

Well then...
...excuse me for asking, but isn't that what a lot of us have been 
doing allready for years? Are Spectrasonics not just offering a 
slick-interfaced Recycle-clone here? Where'd they find the guts 
to actually go out and tell the world they've done an amazing 
discovery...?

Personaly I've been using Recycle eversince version 1.0 and I 
doubt it's ever going to leave my Mac, but isn't this sort of a 
'Preset-Recycle'...?
Oh well, at least the price is pretty tight, 3gig's worth of sample 
material is always an excuse to go for it anyway.

Just had to get this off my chest:)
Happy Stylussing,
O.