yep, Buzz is fun, powerful and customizable but it lacks in uniformity and coherence; it’s a mess to get accustomed with hundreds of different modules, many of them mostly doing the same thing… it’s clear it’s born from many users everyone giving his own contribution but without a good unifying idea. it remembers linux and opensource philosofy 
that’s all… 
keep renoising! 
guido
modplug => trashcan. dosbox? if somebody like difficulties then please…
These are just some solutions to create XM. Of course, MPT is not as easy to handle, as Renoise is or FT2 was. But Skale?!? - Naa, not really… I prefer problems 
I did only one track (not finished) with MPT and don’t want back to that… F6 to play song? never… Show me your options to make XM files on XP. I have to say that I never use FT2 because I’ve tracked on Amiga. When I started music at PC, my computer (Celeron500) was to weak for Renoise and I did something with Skale…
skale song
Today I don’t have to bother with CPU power but still need to develop some xm tunes. Renoise is hermetic. So the only comfortable way is Skale (of course it’s far from perfect now, because of unstable:/). MPT is not in the game.
FT2 was the first more professional tracker around on PC. The first serious tracker on PC was Screamtracker 3 though. (It was serious enough to lure me away from the amiga since Amiga was always better in sound)
Renoise is the midway for people that want to create professional sounding music but find MIDI-based sequencers like Cubase or Cakewalk too much of a hassle to work with.
and what?
You could try madtracker in fasttracker mode to create xm files 
tried. mpt class creature 
).
Do you really know modplug good? I used FT2 for years but imo modplug is much better than ft2…But I dont make xm anymore so I use Renoise…
so maybe tell me about adventages mpt over skale? do you know skale, what wrong with it?
I’m not going to use vst with skale. in pure xm I don’t see many bugs (maybe I’m blind). I don’t know what with you, but I’m making music with scale at this moment, so what’s wrong? It’s comfortable for me, fast moving inside patterns and between… easy editing…
I used Modplug for years. When the program became open source, I even compiled myself a version for my personal needs. Of course, MPT is different from the Amiga-Versions of Octamed, Protracker or Noisetracker and MPT is also very different from Skale, FT2, IT or Renoise but it is possible to configure MPT that you can use it almost like FT2.
F6 is for playing the song, yes but the right CTRL-Key works the same after setting up the keybindings. The trick is to use a custom keymap and just set it like you want to have it.
The only reason, why I do not use MPT anymore is that VSTi never worked and the soundquality was poor compared to Skale or Renoise.
AFAIK Modplug is the most stable tracker I ever used…
…if only the project wasn’t dead right after being born 
neurotix: great, but for me it’s better option
Menu Start/Music/Skale Tracker [Click]
So if you are “weekend musician” you can have fun with dosbox. For me its daily work man…
anyway… nevermaind.
I never bother with FT2 anymore, it’s useless now, Renoise is way too… Yummy.
I don’t get why so many compo-owners don’t let RNS-files into their system! I mean, it’s no problem to download the demo?
Hum, this would open up Yet Another Discussion About A RNS-Player-DLL
(aka YADAARPD)
um, say yadaarpd fast 10 times in a row!
Are you a skale troll / skale fanboy ?
choose yourself. eot.
may i choose both ?
Funny to see how a topic of respect can be turned into a tracker war once again 
Seriously, I won´t take position for any “Composition-Tool” in general, not Renoise, not Skale, Cubase, ect ect. You know, in the end it´s up to the producer how good his song sounds or which program has the best useability for “HIM”. So, me says: Leave it by that and make love with each other 
yadaarpd, yadaarpd, yadaarpphh, yadaarptzs, yadaarphhh… I´ve given up one the sixth actually