oh my gosh that takes me back. noisetrekker was the first tracker I really got down with. I guess these days it would leave a lot to be desired though.

I used Renoise to make Sky Burial and also for a lot of work I did (as in everything here  except for the Rollin' Reels stuff, and including the Gunstringer soundtrack stuff) for Audio Aggregate.

John Tiberio, who wrote the above-linked review, later interviewed me about the album and I had this to say in his question regarding Renoise specifically:

"When I first started looking into creating chiptunes it was overwhelming because I’m extremely”right-brained” and inspiration driven.  I am both impressed and stressed by mathematics and chemistry.  Complex computer languages and interfaces cause my brain to cease functioning in a seemingly pathological way.  On top of it all, I own a Mac, so it turns out that my tracker options are fairly limited.  I discovered Renoise and Milky Tracker, and I decided to hunker down with Renoise because it had a fairly broad user base and a lot of straightforward tutorials, many geared toward much more complex production techniques than I was interested in employing at the time. Once I got over the visual attack of the tracker interface as a whole, I found the format of trackers to be much more intuitive than any piano roll sequencer.  Despite being a bombastic cluster of numbers and letters, Renoise allowed (and continues to allow) me to compose my songs like essays rather than complex equations.Renoise’s ability to read .IT, .XM, and even .S3M files allowed me to study the ancient masters, particularly 4mat, maktone, virt, spamtron, and Norrin_Radd.  I found it very important and inspiring to maintain a strict respect for their form, particularly regarding a total lack of effect automation.  I quickly found a lot of liberty and creative inspiration available in eschewing Renoise’s native channel “effects” and sticking straight to classic volume column values.  I think something like the two-channel intro to “Flight of the Peacock Lords” wouldn’t have come to fruition if I had relied on static delay “effect” values.The “fine tuning” I referred to regards a simple need I faced to literally fine-tune the base notes of the different square wave samples I cobbled together into my instrument bank."

So, tl;dr aside, Renoise was a very easy transition into trackers for someone who had never used any sort of music sequencer before and who nearly broke out into a panic attack during a 2002 attempt to do something with Impulse Tracker.

a tracker is a step sequencer.

I totally get it if you want to play live, but if you're not playing live then doesn't using a step sequencer in Renoise sort of null the whole point of the tracker interface?  The Launchpad is awesome, but I can't see it being too useful outside of a live environment.

                              You should buy the chip tune 1 vst insturment by she, works greate with renoise. its 5$

Wow, that's really freaking cool. Great work!

This will totally replace Duplex for my Launchpad in my setup !!!
http://www.stepsequencer.net/

Dude that's beautiful.

I use Renoise for writing soundtracks for my buddy's green screen vids. It's nice because I can just record myself playing in realtime via a midi interface...the hard part is putting together the sample maps and whatnot. I especially like the built-in dsps.

I haven't much messed with vsts yet...I have a ton of samples I recorded myself from Casio/Yamaha keyboards, so I don't really need them. But I think it'd be fun to play with a few, such as a nice Mellotron vst.

Using Renoise + Vsts to make chipmusic is like killing flies with  bazookas.

Agreed! Renoise is ace and as far as making chipmusic with it, VSTs are definitely not neccesary, plus it's a lot more fun if you don't use them.

as i said in the other thread        people have been making chiptunes in sample trackers for more than twenty years without vsts, and it sounds better than magical8bitplug anyway. i don't think you need vsts~ i certainly don't

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Renoise + Chipsounds really is the ultimate modern chip composing solution, IMO

I love it. This has been my setup for 2012.