[Amiga] -> Noisetracker -> Protracker -> DigiBooster2 -> OctaMED SoundStudio -> [PC] -> (fiddling with lots of lame windows apps) -> Renoise -> eternal bliss!
To me nothing but trackers feels immediate and ‘serious’. Once you get hooked to that level of control, that’s it.
Madtracker was my first DAW. I’ve used it for about 4 years off and on, then recently as I tried to get back to making music I looked at many other DAWs but I just can’t get down and dirty without a tracker interface so Renoise was the natural new home for me. I really think it’s a work of art in itself, I’ve spent too many hours just starring at the interface without doing much, overwhelmed by the possibilities.
Went from Fasttracker 2 to Jeskola Buzz then years of not making music. Got the Korg Volca trio last December en then realized I really wanted to use a tracker interface to sequence them. Found out that Renoise could do the trick and registerd it yesterday after the nag screen started appearing 
Started with Tetra Compositor
To > SBStudio
To > Scream Tracker
To > Fasttracker II
To > Impulse Tracker
To > Jeskola Buzz (briefly)
To > Renoise.
I started 1992 when i was 14 years old with an Amiga 500 and Protracker. In 1994 i got my Amiga 2000 (which i still have 
) and switched from Protracker to Oktalyzer and then to Octamed. In 1997 i became my first hardware synthesizer (Roland JP-8000) as birthday present from my dad. Some months later i bought a used Korg M1 workstation on a flea market. I sampled a bunch of sounds from these synths and a lot of funk records into my trackers and used the sounds for making drum & bass and jungle music. I still have hundrets of floppy disks and a hand full Amiga hard drives full of sampled stuff from that time and i still use them sometimes in my music.
i grew up with lots of amiga trackers
Started tracking a long time ago below a list of trackers i used:
Protracker (Amiga)
Octamed (Amiga)
Fast-Tracker (PC)
Buzz tracker (PC)
Renoise tracker (PC)
Haha nice. Similar here. I started with Soundtracker, then Protracker, Oktalyzer and then Octamed lot of years. Also tried THX / AHX + Future Composer, but never finished a song there (I still love the sound of future composer tunes!). Then moved to PC. The PC version of OctaMED then was a mess, at least midi timing was not stable (the guy never fixed it!). Later I was liaised with Cubase a lot of years, tried Buzz a bit, did some years projects in Logic (moved to OSX) and finally now using Renoise (I really hate the piano roll “concept”, that concept suxx so much). The only piano roll that is ok is the inplace piano roll in cubase, so you can edit two tracks at a glance. I wish there was some dev, who would combine the graphical view of a piano roll (bars), but write the note into the bar, so the bar only represents the note length, and then the dev would rotate the bars by 90 degrees… Oh, that nearly a tracker view. Aodix looked very nice! Maybe some solid grid was missing there… Sadly arguru passed away and he also always did his own visions (I think he didn’t care so much of his users).
yea, musiclide editor and lots of others. and axs, it, ft2 (alot) mt2 on pc. never liked buzz or similar stuff.
renoise is a tracker, so why should it have a pianoroll like in cubase or reason? … the pattern view is your pianoroll, just vertically
jeskola buzz was the first interaction… but then renoise was the obvious natural selection… for many many reasons… still scratching the surface… but i suspect a long relationship with it !
Fasttracker 2 was “the” thing for me - used it for years. Tried Impulse Tracker but it didn’t work for me (neither did some midi software that I tried).
Then came Renoise and I needn’t look no further.
sound trracker, octatrack, fasttracker, impulsetracker, dreamstation, renoise.
Impulse Tracker > boss sp505> mpc 1000 > sk@le tracker > milkytracker > renoise > nanoloop> lsdj> lgpt > renoise again > sunvox
So cool, exactly the path I took too 
hundreds of tracks, more then a million files in my 60gb Renoise folder now 
Scream Tracker → Impulse Tracker → (holding out) → (holding out) → Impulse Tracker 3 still not released? → (holding out) → Renoise (where have you been all this time!!)
Somewhere in the middle I tried cakewalk and later Reason. I think I did okay with cakewalk and reason actually, but never really got into them. Before that I had used Acid for it’s timestretching ability, and somewhere in there used rubberduck for 303 lines.
Actually, it’s kind of fun to think of the old software that I used to use. I would switch back and forth a lot between Cooledit and soundforge as my audio editors. Off the top of my head I can’t think of any other software I used to use that often. I had a dos based soft synth that I tried but couldn’t make sound good. Then again, I can’t make current VST synth’s sound good when I try to program my own patches, so I can’t really blame the early software synth…
The best part of it back then was I could spend all the time I wanted and not feel guilty about it. Now I have way too many other things I have to take care of… can’t drain away the hours I used to spend on music.
LSDJ
whoa I really had to look that one up. respect!
LSDJ
MilkyTracker -> OpenMPT -> Buzz -> Renoise.]
I wish I could use buzz machines in Renoise, but that’s impractical/impossible/a pipe dream. Renoise’s current instrument model is great.
FT2 -> IT -> Buzz -> OpenMPT -> Renoise.
I keep Buzz around to do samples mostly from Buzz-centric machines and I still love its interface for doing quick experiments. OpenMPT I find useful for playing tracker formats from the mod archives that Renoise doesn’t support. But Renoise has captured my imagination and I love the support it gets from the devs and community.
Hi,
I started my music making with FT2 around 1999 and after that I moved to Buzz. I started using various non tracker DAWs in 2004 and thought my tracking days were over.
I’ve been using Renoise for almost a year now and it is slowly starting to become my main music making software.
