A really quick way to explore some musical ideas live, whether using instruments or synthesizers is live looping.    Most any DAW can be used to create a live looping instrument if you can find a delay with 100% feedback and simultaneously reduce the input to that delay to -infinity or mute.

Download an Ableton Live example session with live looping using delays here.  Live does have its own looping audio effect, but we are using this example as the concept can be applied to other tools that do not have a live looper as part of the application.

Looking back at the re-sampling workflow, you can use live looping to generate ideas then capture them as audio.

We may use this live looping process as a part of our controllerism project.

Lab worksheet here.