tracker right here buddy. I started on scream tracker, then fast tracker, and finally made something decent on impulse tracker! that program did indeed rock.

I now use buzz (www.buzzmachines.com) Still the tracker interface, but with multipattern sequencing, and modular machine hookups.

there's also psycle (http://psycle.pastnotecut.org)
buzz with less machines, and more oldschool tracker sequencing,

aodix (http://www.smartelectronix.com/~arguru/)
a vsti/vst tracker.

and many many more less popular programs that I've never tried. Just can't stand the piano roll and flashy graphics.

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Originally posted by quddha tracker right here buddy. I started on scream tracker, then fast tracker, and finally made something decent on impulse tracker! that program did indeed rock. I now use buzz (www.buzzmachines.com) Still the tracker interface, but with multipattern sequencing, and modular machine hookups. there's also psycle (http://psycle.pastnotecut.org) buzz with less machines, and more oldschool tracker sequencing, aodix (http://www.smartelectronix.com/~arguru/) a vsti/vst tracker. and many many more less popular programs that I've never tried. Just can't stand the piano roll and flashy graphics.

Buzz crashed on me a lot, and i had no tracker experience, so i never ended up using it, but i do use all the machines inside fruity, so i do know that they are quality. From what i hear (from sasha, james holden in interviews, and people on forums), buzz itself is also a great program, although is it a bit buggy

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Originally posted by quddha a vsti/vst tracker

http://www.renoise.com/

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yea renoise is cool i like all the features it has..

buzz is in a different league compared to impulse tracker... cant even beging to compare the 2.. so i could never really use buzz.. but from what i hear its a pretty good prog.

but yea ive moved onto reason and trying that out.. buts its frustrating in impulse ahh i could whip up some patterns in under 5mintues... u know get a groovy beat happening.. reason takes alot longer hehe

whats the go on impulse tracker is it still coming out..
thats should rock.. well itll be impulse tracker for windows
AWSOME heheh

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Originally posted by K-Noize yea renoise is cool i like all the features it has.. buzz is in a different league compared to impulse tracker... cant even beging to compare the 2.. so i could never really use buzz.. but from what i hear its a pretty good prog. but yea ive moved onto reason and trying that out.. buts its frustrating in impulse ahh i could whip up some patterns in under 5mintues... u know get a groovy beat happening.. reason takes alot longer hehe whats the go on impulse tracker is it still coming out.. thats should rock.. well itll be impulse tracker for windows AWSOME heheh

Buzz does have some bugs to iron out, but once u do iron them out, its pretty solid. There are only a few ways in which in can crash and when you avoid it, its all good.

1.) if it crashes at startup, figure out why, and solve the problem, using buzzfixkit
2.) using bad machines. avoid using those machines.
3.) always exit buzz by closing it using the x button in the top right.

And if you really like impulse tracker that much, all you need to do is hook up the maltide tracker machine to the master. And that's impulse tracker. :P Except you can use many of them, and put effects on different ones. There are even mod to buzz conversion utilities, and a "going from IT to Buzz" tutorial. hehe

Oh, and all the programs I listed above are Freeware.

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From what I hear, Renoise is probably the best tracker out there. You might also want to check out Skale Tracker.

Buzz does have an IT to Buzz guide, as was mentioned, if you want to try out Buzz. I use it and also love it, couldn't see myself switching to anything else, now that I have tried FL, Cubase, Psycle, Renoise (though this was a possibility, until I fixed my Buzz install), and various other sequencers/software studios.

I would suggest not torturing yourself by trying to learn Reason, since if you already like the tracker sequencing, you can do pretty much anything you want with one of the modern trackers out there (Renoise, Skale, and some others). I know exactly what you mean about getting stuff set up and ready to go. I tried using the FL demo a few weeks ago, and in Buzz I can just fly around and enter in the data I want. In FL I have to click and drag and do all this stuff with the mouse, and it takes forever...

Anyway, hope that helps a bit.

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Last edited by brash on Jan-29-2003 at 22:31

were can you find. how trackers work.

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Originally posted by mastercongo were can you find. how trackers work.

Renoise has a getting started guide in the help section.

You also might want to take a look at this: http://www.united-trackers.org/resources/index.htm

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brash thank you very much.

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