now that we have the tools that make it easier to turn "sound design" and "composition" into things that happen at different times, we are feeling distinctly different musical moods for these sorts of things.
we just spent half an hour playing our drum synthesizer into a recording machine with a single voice and a couple basic patterns on loop, changing lots of parameters as we went, and stopping every once in awhile to tune to a different note. we know that what we recorded will be a lot of fun to write into a song later but we have very little desire to do that right now, nor did we have any desire to do it at the start. we just wanted to make sounds and save them for later. and later, when we want to put some sounds together into a rhythm, we'll have these around, already explored. its nice, i like this.
something different im trying out that i havent in the past when stepping into this is im taking notes in a text file as i record things, so i have some reference for whats going on later. BPMs, notes things are tuned to, etc.