True, no harm bro. I get what your saying.
Well, I'm very basic in my approach to sampling with maschine.
I find a song I like and listen to it. I usually listen to the whole song without skipping through, and make mental bookmarks, on parts I can sample.
Then I chop it up. I don't always have all my pads used for the sample. Let's say I have 4 parts of the song that I think is useable. I will assign 4 pads to each chop, and then make something with that. Then I will add drums to that. I don't need 16 chop ups.
For me the good thing about maschine is that I can keep pressing the pad and have the sample play back, and tweak it in real time. That's vital to my work flow, because I can find new melodies while tweaking when the samples starts, and ends in real time. I'm learning to use kontakt for sampling now, with pro tools. It's a whole different world with those 2.
Also, a sample may only be one second long, or not even. I don't need much to work with.
Also, a big thing is knowing what key the sample is in. I use mixed in key to analyze my song, then I listen to it. I really listen. I listen for any progression the song may have. Once I know the key, I can work with new scales, and chord progressions.
Learning music theory has taught me to listen to music, not only read it.