Hello all,
I just wanted to introduce myself to this great community and thank you for the brilliance that is Renoise. I have been sporadically lurking for awhile, but hope to become a more active member of the forums.
My name is Mike, and I’ve been playing with various trackers since 1990. I started by playing with NoiseTracker/ProTracker on a friend’s Amiga 500 and eventually bought my own A500, eventually finding my way to OctaMED. Making the jump to PC, I used ScreamTracker for a bit, then used Impulse Tracker for quite awhile. A couple years later I began using ModPlug Tracker, and was pretty heavy into that until discovering Renoise…which is seriously in a class of its own.
Don’t let that summary mislead you–I’m just a hobbyist (doesn’t feel right to refer to myself as a “musician”), and I have a history of playing with a given tracker for a couple months, then life intervenes and pulls me away for a couple years before I can find enough time to start all over again. So while I may have worked with a few different trackers over several years, my actual experience level with tracking is still basically in the “novice” category. My goal is to stick with Renoise and remain active with this otherwise neglected hobby. I have snookered a friend at work into getting hooked on Renoise, too, so hopefully that’ll help.
Renoise is so complete that it took me awhile to build up the courage/find the time to delve into it fully. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, I devoted an entire day to going through the tutorials and getting myself acquainted. While I’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg, the common tracker DNA really helped me gain a decent comfort level quickly. And the more I use it, the more obvious it is that Renoise has been developed and revised by people who actually track music, because there are features and details that simply make sense and are powerful, yet easy to use. Fantastic! Worth every penny! And from what I’ve seen of the community here, there’s still more excellence on the horizon.
Thanks,
remst8