you simply didn’t read the manual
Let’s think in another perspective:
SunVox is my first tracker, and I didn’t read any manual to use it, besides one or two solarlune’s videos and a couple of example projects in the software, but they already let me know how tracker works and I can already feel comfortable to work with because the workflow is intuitive without much hidden behaviors or nuance. The intuition of Sunvox is like doing math: if you add one and two, you always get three. For example, if I see metamodule can accept either audio or midi if I use amplifier or multisynth respectively, and since delay module can receive both, I can straightly expect delay can makes metamodule accepting both type of signal, simultaneously. The only time I have stepped into the manual is when I am doing tutorials which I need a precise definition of a feature.
But in Renoise, things doesn’t seems as straight forward, and oftentimes, it feels like when I clearly see a path in sight, I run into it; however, the “path” is actually a wall and I crashed hard. Some of my aforementioned “short by one” features have such feelings to it, which visually and intuitively, it clearly should allow me to do such features, but technically, such features don’t exist… and because it has disrupted my original plan on making a certain sounds, I need to spend a good couple of hours just to understand how a feature actually works using the manual or some forum posts, at worst, sometimes I need to spend times just for the most basic stuff, and usually, these issues are not inherently caused by the tracker itself, but the features surround it.
If I have to deeply study a software by reading a manual for every aspect before I can even work for the basic stuff like adding/removing a note in a modern way or properly scrolling the grid, or using so many workarounds just to fix a limitation, rather than using our instinct or intuition borrowing from other software, this might reveal some serious UX problems that hurt the usability.
PS: I might be out of topic because I have realized fladd’s comment after I have written all of these, but whenever I have seen the argument “read the manual” even on the most basic stuff, I definitely can see some deeper issue with it and want to share it.