arlen: Wow, that was quick! I'm looking forward to hearing your entry.
I started messing around with something last night. I didn't realize the Milkytracker GUI was quite so terrible. I also tried good ol' FT2 in DosBox but the audio seemed a bit glitchy. And I've never used IT... XD
Hey OpenMPT makes IT pretty easy! The only major difference switching from XM would be the effect commands, luckily you have a little popup menu to help you through that, or you could use this nifty guide http://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/ s_Commands
It's really not that different, you get a few cool new features, like NNA's which help a lot in small compos like these : )