I L O V E Milky Tracker. I just got Renoise a few weeks ago, and it's light years beyond Milky, but I find myself making and editing samples inside of Renoise, and then using them to actually compose in Milky.
There's something about the simplicity of Milky that allows me to dig in and work on tracking and experimenting with effect commands. I really do enjoy using Renoise, but I don't feel like I'm really tracking with it, as I find it unnecessary to use the effects column most of the time. Renoise has many envelopes and built-in DSP effects which handle all the things that I would normally use the effects column for in a tracker.
Having said that, I have a lot of stuff written in Renoise that uses softsynths and large, chopped up samples, and I couldn't do anything like that with Milky unless I wanted a headache. I still prefer both Milky and Renoise to any standard DAW I've ever used.
Famitracker is great for what it does. Very easy to use. It's the first tracker I was able to fathom, and I've never deleted it from my computer even though I rarely use it anymore.
Deflemask is cool too, although I didn't enjoy using it. It's nice to have so many different chip emulations under one app, but there's just something about how it feels to work inside the pattern and instrument editors that puts me off. Much respect to it, though.
Sunvox is obviously very capable but I just couldn't gel with it. Same with Klystrack... and OpenMODPlug, and that one Sega Master System beeper-tracker, and a million other permanent-alpha project trackers that happen to be scattered about the internets.
GoatTracker induced a bout of vomiting, blurred vision, two hallucinations of my own death, followed shortly by my actual death, and then my resurrection with a note in my hand, which read: "You are not smart enough to use GoatTracker". Wish I could, though!
Last edited by Vaina Moinen (Dec 16, 2013 12:50 am)
