I'd first try out something like renoise or schism tracker or OpenMPT to get a feeling for the tracker workflow... or Klystrack or Deflemask even.
Look at the demo songs they come with, etc., and work on making the mental shift towards thinking of measures vertically instead of horizontally.

Once you get the general concepts of sequencing within a tracker down, you can look into "hardware specific tracker emulators" and "trackers that produce files able to be run on 'retro' hardware". It will go a long way into making these interfaces less daunting.
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3 Reply by ilkae Nov 22, 2017 3:22 am

Re: 8static Festival 2017 - 9th Anniversary Event [PHL PA USA - NOV 9-11] (3 replies, posted in Past Events)

Let the record show that this was _freaking awesome_.

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4 Reply by ilkae Jul 8, 2017 9:31 pm

Re: [EIS032] Agargara - Dovetail Groove Method (7 replies, posted in Releases)

tempsoundsolutions wrote:

this zombified crusty netlabel that puts out one release a year tho

blah blah blah.

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5 Reply by ilkae Jun 8, 2016 2:21 am

Re: Why Chiptune? (38 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I've always been a pcm data tracker, I'm just here because it's literally the only good forum related to tracker music period.

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6 Reply by ilkae May 15, 2016 6:57 pm

Re: How do you use guitar effect pedals? (10 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

ForaBrokenEarth wrote:

I'd love to hear the stems for that Can I ask what effects you were using, out of curiosity?

I mostly used my custom 4MS noise swash pedal. Here's a small example of what it did to the stems:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/236 … iangle.wav
See how fat it makes the low-end of the triangle channel!

Also used on some takes was a shitty behringer vintage delay pedal after the noise swash.

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7 Reply by ilkae May 13, 2016 7:36 pm

Re: How do you use guitar effect pedals? (10 replies, posted in Other Hardware)

For Zan-zan-zawa-veia - Mist Slug, I took the five mono channels from the .FTM and ran each of them through a pedal chain approximately five times each, tweaking all of the key parameters live while recording. The differences in each "take" allowed for each part to be doubled up and panned (hard-ish) left/right, resulting in a style of mid/side effect processing.

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8 Reply by ilkae Apr 26, 2016 11:24 pm

Re: Music Theory (109 replies, posted in General Discussion)

JaffaCakeMexica wrote:

...In fact I was mobbed and insulted regularly by non-gay chipmusicians who were using gay stylings in their music and art as a form of cultural appropriation.

...And I think we're done here.

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9 Reply by ilkae Apr 26, 2016 11:02 pm

Re: Music Theory (109 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Honestly, I'm only still reading this out of the faint hope that he posts a link to one of his tracks so that I can throw a trap beat on top of it and flip it on youtube.

Huge respect to Protodome/Chunter/FoD/jangler et. al. for having the patience of saints while trying to instill some knowledge into a brick wall.

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10 Reply by ilkae Aug 3, 2015 2:04 am

Re: What would your dream tracker consist of? (33 replies, posted in General Discussion)

4mat wrote:

I'd like native stereo sample support and an extra fx column in FastTracker 2.

having two fx columns for xm/it tracking would keep me busy for the next decade.

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11 Reply by ilkae Mar 28, 2015 7:59 pm

Re: Tracker Food (Generators) (36 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)

best thread necrobump, with a request... does anyone still have a copy of this laying around?

http://www.vintagesynth.com/misc/reality.php

it was amazing, but has been scrubbed from the internet due some patent infringement / IP lawsuits > 10 years ago.
i know it's a long shot, but somebody here might have it still and i'd love to give it a spin again.

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