So everyone uses technology where they can.

As for the "loop" aspect, they're not actually loops, wrote that slightly wrong. It's a sequence in a set key a la Berlin School. Solo over the top of it. It's just a tool which, er, real musicians can actually use as well as bedroom DJ's. 

"Peddle" is a very unfortunate phrase. Spot "no cost to Prog Archive" members. 

Then we combine each others' audio on separate tracks, fade sequences and effects in and out, solo over the top.

That's how Mike Oldfield did it, Jean Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream etc etc. 

If I want to include, say, the sound of running water or gongs, guess what ? Sample library from the internet. I suppose, if I wanted a church bell sound, I could (by some weird logic) buy a church.

Or if I wanted the sound of a modular playing a 105 bpm 16 step sequence in G major, I could buy a modular and an analogue sequencer. 

Perhaps not, eh ? I'd rely on someone else to do it for me. 

The problem with kids in bedrooms is that a lot have no musical creativity and just use very poor loops, written by other kids in bedrooms with no creativity. The result is not worth much, musically. Results are variable as you're giving something to someone else who may use it badly. Look at all the badly used John Bonham samples, for example. 

Rewind to the start. Most people here don't have a modular synth, analogue sequencer, string synthesizers, analogue synthesizers, valve preamps and God knows what else. If someone wanted to do a collaborative track with me, great. Guess how we'd do it ? By using pre-recorded samples sent to each other, and tempo matched as well, so they actually play in time. 

One may also work out that "real musicians who release sample CDs " are doing it because none of the "fans" actually pay for any music any more. Most "fans" use sites such as Bandcamp as a free radio station. They'll quite happily play your album time and time and time again, all the way through, never buy it, but descend like locusts when a free track comes out.

So when musicians release "sample CDs" which are actually paid for by kids in bedrooms, perhaps "fans" - including all the ones off sites like Prog Archives (which Bandcamp allows me to track) should realise that musicians have to make money by some means and perhaps they should pay for music before it disappears ?

As I mentioned, I'm peddling, sorry, releasing some free stuff for musicians here who want it. More fool me, if it causes sniping from those who haven't actually thought the subject through.