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Might have a lot of good ideas here. This is about if you have your own synths/softsynths, and you resample them for usage in trackers.

I know it's obvious to sample a lot of your own stuff at C, and I get the idea of sampling chords in all different voicings for variety....but what about inversions? Like if you have a CMaj7 chord voiced G-B-C-E, would you usually sample that to C-4 or the lowest note (which in this voicing, happens to be G)?

Or if you have another chord like C - Db - F - Ab...? C is the lowest note here, but this is obviously a DbMaj7 chord. Sampling this to C-4 to me would confuse me because the root of this chord would always be a half-step higher than what's listed, so I'd sample the chord instead with B - C - E - G...does that make sense?

I guess it all depends on how seriously you take the note values in a tracker or if you just take them for face-value of "high" and "low." Kind of like drum tracks - you don't really "hear" a drum hit at just C-4 (unless it's pitched, but stfu). One note samples are obvious, but chords always interested me as to what you're really hearing when you see a note value.

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And a similar, yet parallel question: Do you sample your synths with a song idea in your head or do you ever have just sessions where you just sample chords and sounds for later use?