Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions?
by eccp on Saturday October 08, 2011 @10:19PM
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+1 for Renoise. I've heard some awesome compositions made on it, and it's the natural evolution of demoscene trackers. For a sample, see the following video with the track 'Leandi' by Mosaik (a fairly known demoscene musician): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N-f4sSU75I
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Re:Ask HN: What are your music prototyping solutions?
by przemoc on Sunday October 09, 2011 @02:33PM
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Thanks for comment. Tracker evolution is a good thing, but somehow recent works from trackers sounding like from DAWs/sequencers, with MBs of samples per instrument, etc. are not what I am looking in them. Back then you had .xm, several KBs total, with 4 tracks and listening experience could be ecstatic. Now you can have quality-wise perfect tune, more complex with dozen tracks, but the spirit is not there IMO. I am not saying that you cannot use trackers for some serious stuff, but for me they will be mostly only tools for old school projects.
Renoise is not a tracker, or pure-tracker-alone software, so it is kind of different beast.