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Hey man, here's what I did like last week:

Set up a pandora account dedicated to digging, make stations for all the jazz/soul/funk musicians you know. Start with the basics, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, the Temptations, Marvin Gaye... etc.

Then go to http://www.whosampled.com/ and start browsing through some of your favorite modern producers, see what old artists they are sampling, and add stations for those artists.

Once you get a bunch of stations, play all of them on shuffle... if you hear something you want to sample, write down the song/artist (or screencap your phone). Then just start googling/torrenting/youtube ripping those songs. Easy.

Edit: also, like /u/Linguist_Music pointed out, go for more obscure or non-generic stuff... the artists you plug into pandora are just a springboard to discover more artists.

Sounds like you're well versed in your DAW already, in which case just seek out any tutorial/masterclass, they're usually applicable to any DAW. Most of the good ones have been posted on this sub.

Though do check out Flite on Twitch (you can also see past broadcasts); he uses FL Studio. https://www.twitch.tv/flitednb

Also SeamlessR did a DnB track from scratch a long time ago using FL and mostly native plugins - might be worth a watch?

FL user here. I start by finding a nice drum loop, load it into a sampler and cut it up in the Playlist. I search for a nice sound first and rhythm second because I will change the pattern anyway. I make 1 bar variations and they usually look like A-B-A-B-A-B-A-C. I find some snare layers, not too many tho, just 1 or 2. The I add offbeat percussion, usually one shots. For that extra groove I add some shuffle hihats to steps 7-10 and 15-16 if I'm making a "classic" drum pattern with my kick on 1 and 11 and my snare on 5 and 13. Keep that going with some kick drum variations here and there and add shakers or tambourines later. I try to stay consistant with my drums and only add a few changeups to not suprise the listener too often and ruin the flow. Here is an example where I use some of the mentioned stuff.

Just started this tune today. Really don't know what is going on, I just kept rolling with it for 4 hours and I already have a decent structure going along with some nice variations and shuffles. I made Liquid before but this is one the better projects I got. I guess it's just the vibe that keeps me going. I've showed it to a friend of mine and he wants to lay down some acoustic guitars. Don't know how that's going to work out but he is a dope guitar player so if he can come up with something that fits, we will make it work.

Yo, I'm nnuma, 15 years old, been producing for a pretty short time. My soundcloud is www.soundcloud.com/nnuma, altough i had a neurotic spontaneus decision to empty it.

I produce like 5 hours a day, so I'm improving really quickly, maybe someday I won't be downright terrible at this.

My best work so far:

some weird ass neuro dnb WIP, about to finish this: https://clyp.it/elxq14hn

some minimal pianoreese chill track i made a month ago and lost the project file:

https://clyp.it/f1hnx5iz

In a similar vein -- and I haven't tried this out myself yet -- is using Mixed In Key on your sample folders for inspiration and/or organising samples by key. It's not a new concept but /u/villemuk put a tutorial together explaining his workflow.

Virtual DJ.

If you have an iPad I'd also recommend the Djay app as it's so tactile.

I suppose you could always use your DAW for mixing tracks using automations on volume, eq etc.