I haven't been able to find a post on this topic yet, so I thought I'd make one here.

How would you describe your production process, from start to finish? Do you have a recognizable process (for example, looping, then pasting clips around, then refining)?

I am also an amateur illustrator, and I find that process is somewhat easier to grasp for digital art, but that in general the process is defined by the type of output you want.

I have been trying lately to focus on writing the "music" before getting into the "production", which seems to work well in terms of finishing faster and writing more coherent tracks, but it tends to limit my sound design options, since I can't represent, say, a morphing fm bass with a simple saw wave in the writing process.

What are your thoughts/processes?