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- Adrezonar
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Thanks for taking part in this forum. I started making music on the Amiga with TFMX in 1994 and then switched to Linux in 2007. As before, I mainly make my music with trackers like Renoise, SunVox and Protrekkr, but I generally try out every music software I can get my hands on. At the moment I am trying a lot with audio mastering where I definitely still have a lot to learn and there are always new problems and questions that need to be solved. But that's exactly what I enjoy about the thing and if I get stuck I think that I will definitely find a lot of nice linuxers here that can help me
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I know this isn't the point of this topic but I want to ask anyway - Do you guys like trackers just because you started with them or do you think they offer some kind of benefit over the DAWs most of us use? I had a go with Renoise a while back and while I thought it was cool n all, I just didn't see why I would want to use that workflow in the end. It seems like it's only really good for electronic music that's very programmed. Not that that's bad but just that it's what they specialise in. Am I right or am I missing something?
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Speaking of my experience I'm kinda born into it.
When I started, in the 90s, (trying) making music with my PC there were 2 main paths:
Tracker way
MIDI way
The first one was available at 0 money budget, the second way was quite expensive (SW and HW).
Also the fact i discovered the demoscene and then I joined it, influenced my way of making music.
Trackers are very good at electronic "dance" music, but not only for that. What I learnt in the demoscene is that limits are made to be broken (kinda hacker mentality, think about the 4k intros). So, you can find quite different genres made with trackers, but sure, the main ones are some kind of electronic dance genre, trackers are very good at that.
Another aspect in which trackers excel is the workflow, the fact they are keyboard driven (at least the majority) speed up the process of sequencing a lot. The DAW paradigm is quite slow in this regard, at least in my POV, DAWs are good in many other aspects though.
When I started, in the 90s, (trying) making music with my PC there were 2 main paths:
Tracker way
MIDI way
The first one was available at 0 money budget, the second way was quite expensive (SW and HW).
Also the fact i discovered the demoscene and then I joined it, influenced my way of making music.
Trackers are very good at electronic "dance" music, but not only for that. What I learnt in the demoscene is that limits are made to be broken (kinda hacker mentality, think about the 4k intros). So, you can find quite different genres made with trackers, but sure, the main ones are some kind of electronic dance genre, trackers are very good at that.
Another aspect in which trackers excel is the workflow, the fact they are keyboard driven (at least the majority) speed up the process of sequencing a lot. The DAW paradigm is quite slow in this regard, at least in my POV, DAWs are good in many other aspects though.
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Yeh I think that confirms what I was thinking. I can see the workflow would be very fast once you get used to it but it seems a bit too specialised for my liking. By the time I started with music software, trackers were less popular so it's just not what I learned with. They've always intrigued me though..
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I think that with the trackers is for the most part simply a habit, because i just started with them. For myself I have the best workflow, it's just fun and everything happens by itself without me having to think about it. For my mc303, quasimidi309 and my darkstar i used octamed, camouflage at the time. Under linux then rosegarden, because its structure is almost exactly like camouflage. I also tried Tracktion and Ableton live lite (wine). Something in between is sunvox. Patterns are processed like in a normal tracker, then arrange the patterns horizontally like in a normal sequencer ... but drift away completely from the topic here.
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Well that's cool. I love that people are still using trackers. They have such retro vibes See you around the forum then.
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Welcome! I got into trackers a while ago, they are a very rational way to make electronic music. There is a modern fully-featured FLOSS tracker by the way, radium
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I've already tried to find my way around with radium several times.
However, I find the program extremely confusing and somehow unituitive.
the demotracks show what is possible with it ... so the possibilities are great.
... and every time there is a new version I have difficulties compiling again ...
However, I find the program extremely confusing and somehow unituitive.
the demotracks show what is possible with it ... so the possibilities are great.
... and every time there is a new version I have difficulties compiling again ...