LinuxMusicians

Hey all. I've been a long-term convert to Debian (and other Linuxen) but have been working to reconcile that interest against making music. Glad to see a community built around this very idea. I've been tracking since the mid-nineties and have carried that habit forward with Schism Tracker and Renoise, but I'm also trying to think horizontally with Bitwig Studio (which I really appreciate as a natively supported option for us). Now with pipewire-jack and some seriously high quality native VSTs, producing in Linux is proving quite possible.

I have a habit of lurking and disappearing but hope to break that habit here. Thanks for reading and I'm looking forward to getting involved!

Love trackers! Welcome

rs3 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 03, 2023 8:30 pm

I've been tracking since the mid-nineties and have carried that habit forward with Schism Tracker and Renoise

Schism Tracker brought me back into the game some 5 years ago. I was an Impulse Tracker user in the nineties and never could get comfortable with other trackers in the meantime. Although I have Renoise too, I can't get used to its scroll behaviour.

Welcome!

Impostor wrote: ↑Tue Sep 05, 2023 12:00 pm

Schism Tracker brought me back into the game some 5 years ago. I was an Impulse Tracker user in the nineties and never could get comfortable with other trackers in the meantime. Although I have Renoise too, I can't get used to its scroll behaviour.

There are some modern libre trackers which are nice: BambooTracker, Furnace and Radium.

There are also FastTracker clone - MilkyTracker (https://github.com/milkytracker/MilkyTracker)
Many years ago I used FastTracker and Impulse It was a time of FTN-based nets such as FidoNet, and at the Kiev where I live was a dedicated net of tracker musicians - DreamNet.