This was the first music production I ever did (did it as an assignment for one of my classes where we were learning to use Pro Tools about a year and a half ago). For the particular assignment we had to do a song using only percussion... But with no MIDI. So we had to take samples of some drums and spot them in using grid mode and a temo map.

Needless to say it was a pain in the ass to change anything if you had a different idea, but it was a good lesson in the end.

The assignment was actually 2 parts, the first was to do drums, the second was to add MIDI to it. Used Reason Adapted for samples (Reason is cool, Reason Adapted blows) but at the time I didn't have a midi controller of any kind, so I sat there, figuring out the notes by ear and writing the midi by hand. God that was a pain in the ass.