Indeed, fact…there are good things about it though, granted that you are maturing.
I am, if ever so slightly.
i actually discovered music software through a little shitty free virtual drum machine called hammerhead station… . . from there i moved onto fruity loops then reason and finally renoise and now im obssessed with making music to the point where it is detrimental to my health!
Haha, I used to do Hammerhead a lot when I was 11 or so. I still have some recordings somewhere on a hdd, they’re quite funny to listen. Haha. And same with FL Studio (some testing Reason & Live in between).
My first real encounter with music soft was something my brother got when opening a bank account when I was even younger…and was called Techno Maker. 
man… that was the tracker I started with too! have forgotten the name, that’s it! Ultimate Soundtracker
also with an Amiga 500
4 tracks only! I used only one track to make drums… couldn’t use the same line (or whatever it’s called) to different sounds, so it was like kick hihat snare hihat kick… if I used another track for the hihat then there were only 2 tracks left for other sounds
Ultimate Soundtracker - Fast Tracker - Fast Tracker II - Skale Tracker - Renoise
hammerhead. awesome. i used that so much to make ‘breaks’ to fuck up in impulse. now i make breaks in renoise and fuck them up in tuareg. so much easier. wtf?
modplug -> scale tracker -> reason 2 -> buzz -> renoise
started in 2003 
Renoise was my first tracker, and the only tracker I’ve ever used. I started playing music on guitar though… Then Cubase, a short stint with Mackie Tracktion, and then mainly Ableton Live for a while. I bought Renoise and Reaper right about the same time… I was unhappy with the audio editing in Ableton, and I was looking for a different way to sequence the synths. Renoise has totally proved to be the different way to sequence synths, drums, vocal samples… Anything really… I really like tracking… Well anyways… Mackie tracktion is pretty much defunct… Cubase I learned at school, so I never owned it… As for Reaper and Live… I still have my licenses. Although, I must say… I’m pretty much doing 99.99% of my work in Renoise…
Soundtracker > Protracker > THX > FT2 > Renoise
I did experiment with OctaMed for a bit, but then life took over.
Amiga 500 & CDTV:
SoundTracker
ProTracker
NoiseTracker
StarTrekker
OctaMed
Atari Falcon 030: - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Falcon
DigitalTracker (16bit audio, DSP, and multiple channels, basically a totally awesome puter for that time)
PC:
FastTrackerII
(Cubase/Cakewalk/Logic/Acid/FruityLoops/Rebirth)
Reason 1.0 - Reason 6
RENOISE 2.7!
Started briefly with Protracker on amiga, moved over to Fast Tracker 2 and used that for many years. Had some years using various sequencers before making the switch “back” to Renoise.
used various Atari ST trackers, I think i tried most systems out there Quartet (although that was not truly a ‘tracker’) Audio Sculpture, Protracker (all the different versions including fasttracker), Soundtracker, TCB tracker, Musicmon and did some YM programming in assembler and at least one YM tracker I forget the name out…
had a long hiatus and found Renoise… just need to get back into the swing of it again…!
I’ve started with mod tracker on PC (4 channels, if I remember correctly) somewhere between 1994-1995. Then I found FT2 and was hooked. I’ve also listened to a lot of tracker music on Amiga, but wasn’t making any music back then. I’ve created dozen of tracks, most of them are finished, and lots of them are still work in progress. I’ve tried to use ft2 clones, but was never confortable with them. IT2 wasn’t interesting to me at that time, I’ve never used it. Then I tried buzz and fell in love with it… I still think it’s most advanced tracker there is today. But, it’s not available on mac, so I’m working my way with renoise… and I like it most of the time, it reminds me so much to ft2, I’m using all the old shortcuts with it, and it’s great to work with. Someday I’ll remake all those old tracks using only renoise fx and samples… someday 
i started looking for ways to create music in 1998 with programs like rebirth, ejay , technomaker then tried something i could actually produce with and not just arrange made loops , found impulse tracker, had fun with it , 2000 moved to modplug tracker and im messing with renoise since 2008 but it took me about 3 years till i actually finished a whole track with it
Starting with C64’s Rock Monitor (yes, it’s really tracker) in 1989. Followed by Amiga ProTracker -> Oktalyzer (real 8 tracks on Amiga 500) -> Octamed. Then PC Cakewalk -> Cubase VST -> Cubaes SX -> Renoise with Ableton live for “live” and sunvox on my palm pc for compozing
I pirated 2.5, but was completely confused, and intimidated by the interface(vertical sequencing ZOMG; previous experience with composition software being guitarpro) it was promptly removed and forgotten. Then I found Sunvox; the fact it was free, and the joy I found connecting modules to make sounds motivated me to learn a little more about tracking. Once I had the basics down Renoise didn’t seem as much as a foreign language so I promptly bought a license for 2.7, and I’ve been tracking ever since. To answer the question though I “used” Sunvox before Renoise.
(P.S. I feel like such a noob compared to the history some of you folks have with trackers 
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Yeah, it all started at begin of nineties with Octalyzer, a Amiga tracker released at late eighties. It had capability to use up to 8 tracks as name would suggest by doubling the single audio channel virtually. As result it halved sample rate per doubled channel thus reducing the audio quality. So I used it mostly with 6 channel as result (2 halved channels/2 full quality), which was pretty decent at the time quality wise and for what you could do with it.
Of course my own production quality wasn’t much at the time, but I sure did enjoy doing my thing! 
Then there came hardware era as I exchanged Amiga for Ensoniq SQ2… and after some years I found Fast Tracker 2, but it didn’t result very many hits for me. Continued with SQ2 until I came across with Modplug Tracker for Windows 95… started to have burning love for trackers again… but too passionate for it to last… until I found Renoise and stabled my relation after very very many years which include testing with bulky Cubase and slick Cakewalk (sequencer) and years of lack interest for making music for not just having the right kinda tool. Renoise was that tool for me it seems, guess I just have my v-sync on by default that I rather see things vertically than horizontally. Music wise at least.
old/new buzz and buze
1992 -octamed, protracker as a simple drum machine for garage band
1994 -fasttracker
1999 -ImpulseTracker
2000 -madTracker, buzz, skaletracker, WINoctamed, fruityLoops (not a tracker at all but filled a need)
2005 -made my first set of renoise kb shortcuts and have pretty much never looked back!
I started with a cheesy drum machine when I was 16. Eventually I got fruity loops. Soon after I got Reason 2.5. Eventually I got in a band but continued to use Reason on my own time throughout. Reaper was the first full fledged DAW I got heavily into. When I first tried Renoise, I hated it. I just didn’t get it. To me it just seemed like a confusing Fruity Loops. However I kept in the back of my mind and would occasionally look at the website. It wasn’t until 2.7 that I started to get interested. I played around in Demo Mode for about a year till 2.8 when I finally bought it. Since I started using it I’ve gotten more work done then I’ve done in years.
I am old enough to remember the Amiga/Atari trackers but never used them. I finally got around to using trackers with SunVox on the Mac and on the iPad. I also use iSequence on the iPad extensively - also tracker based. Renoise is still sitting as a demo on my Mac but I keep working with it and may add it to my Logic 9 setup sometime soon
I blog a bit about it on http://whitherwalter.blogspot.com - I think the engineering approach to music appeals to me and trackers make a lot of sense.