its not about loops. when i work with breaks i get the break at the project tempo then cut up sections of it & retrigger. this is nice and all but when you have to change tempo even by .1 your project is ruined. so i started patch phrasing my breaks. on a break that has 16 hits, since you can't set loop points on patched phrase i have to chop and set hit points on this break 256 times total. this is an insane amount of work for one break so i resorted to retriggering chunks again so i dont have to chop the same break 16 times.

true its way more powerful to sequence each note separately etc but i like to retain the groove of the original break and patched phrase does this perfectly... but i have to chop within the mpc and 256 chops..... ;(