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The future is debatable, but I don't see microtonal music as the future. I definitely don't see Western audiences ever getting into it. It'll remain an extreme niche like harsh noise and other areas of music that are far beyond what mass audiences enjoy.

Sure it's neat, but it's very hard to digest and it's tough for your average joe to get out of the western tone structure headspace. Gettin off track here, though.

Maybe I should have gone to school to become a jazz doctor.

Renoise is great. I record more in Renoise than I do in Reaper lol. Try out the demo, it gives you everything except exporting to .wav (Honestly, you can get around this if you really want to, but I suggest supporting the dev team. They're a great group).

I used the demo of Renoise from about 2007 to 2011 I think, then I bought a license. Worth every penny. I love the way their license system works compared to other DAWs (I respect Reaper's pricing model, too. Very fair). You buy a license and you're good from the current version up to the next full version. So right now you'd buy at version 3.1.x and be good until 4.1.x and that takes a long, long time. I bought at 2.9 I think and it's been nearly 5 years now. Even in that time there have been plenty of changes and updates, but they don't go up the version numbers too fast unless there's a big, big change in features.

For blank cassettes I'd check places like salvation army and thrift stores. Sometimes you can find a few packs of unopened tapes.

As for a release, I'd try to get as many of the same blank tape as you can just for consistency. Buying someone's collection would probably not be cheaper. Honestly if you want to put out a cassette release I'd talk to some cassette labels out there. There are plenty and chances are there might be one near you. Most of those guys are pretty cool and will answer questions better than I can.

I've been waiting for a cheap 4 track to pop up around me that isn't a pile of junk just to add some flavor to my stuff. I'm not really stoked about spending $200 on a busted tape machine, but for some reason a lot of people online think that's what their junk is worth unfortunately.

The recorder kind of depends on what you're planning to do. I'm going to assume you're using LSDJ. Are you recording each separate channel into its own channel on the recorder's mixer and then mixing the levels/EQing on there? Or are you just pluggin the 'boy in and playing your whole song into just one channel?

If it's the first, look for something with enough channels for what you're going for. If it's the latter it'll be cheaper since there are plenty of cheap 2 channel cassette recorders out there. More channels = more sought after and more expensive typically. In terms of brands and what to look for I'd say the hierarchy goes something like Teac > Tascam > Yamaha > Fostex. Teac and Tascam being the best, Yamaha being pretty good, Fostex being ok at best.

Uh for the label business that's a bit different. How DIY are you? You can buy a cassette duplicator, but they're usually like $300-$400 I think? There might be some cheaper ones out there and its possible to find a deal on craigslist, but i don't know.

Your other option for doing a release would be to have a third party dupe the master to cassettes for you. This is what my friend who runs a record label does. I forget what company they use for tape releases exactly. Cost probably varies for this.

Hopefully this clears some stuff up for you? I like tapes.

Chip stuff in milkytracker sounds a lot better if you disable interpolation most of the time. I think both are great programs, but they're very different. Go with Famitracker if you want to do NES stuff, go with MilkyTracker if you like old demoscene-ish chip stuff.