What are you favourite programs for making music? (Page 3 of 5)

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)

Very true! I once thought I'd never learn how to use ANY tracker, and I definitely proved myself wrong there.

At the time I tried GoatTracker, I was still looking for chip-emulating trackers like Famitracker, and I was hoping for easy access to C64 sounds. Whew! I was completely overwhelmed by it, I don't think I even got it to make a sound at all. I only remember playing the sample songs that it comes with.

Anyway, I found my way to Milky Tracker and sample-based tracking, and that's served me well ever since. I certainly don't feel that I'm lacking for possibilities now with Renoise too; there are plenty of C64 VST's out there.

Maybe with more experience under my belt I could actually manage a few beeps out of GoatTracker should I ever try it again.

to me Reason (older versions than 3 at least) just popped up as the most intuitive, easy and versatile music making program... i've tried both FL and ableton live and never acheived to get more than 1 or 2 yacky loops running on these.

Can't wait to get confortable with LSDJ now

the Caustic app. on android looks very-very nice, though my device never allowded to run it...

I have been using FL since 2001. Now most of my hardware is integrated with it (midiNES, arduinoboy, segaMDM, many many more things)

Aside of tracking on a Gameboy DMG-01 with LSDJ i am mostly playing live (synthesizers like Kurzweil) and i like to record in Sony Acid and edit things in SoundForge. Sometimes it takes up to one month to finetune things, but i like to learn it that way. I dont use MIDI recording or sequencing in DAW, only in a few cases where my hands cannot play it. Back in time (in 1998 i switched from Amiga to PC) i used mostly Cakewalk.

Last edited by martin_demsky (Dec 17, 2013 12:26 pm)

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