Renoise: A multi-platform tracker for music composition

Glad at least one person mentions the multiplatform, often updated, very cool REAL tracker!!!
I have been running Milkytracker on my Mac and Windows mobile phone (before I bought my iPhone) for years!

http://milkytracker.net/

rabid renoise fanboy with "yay" and a correction :)

the demo does not time out! beta versions do (but by then there is a new beta or a release versions that doesn't time out - it's only to make sure peope don't keep using potentially buggy betas)

after a while, the demo version starts displaying a nag screen every now and then, but you can then still keep using it.

Cheers!

I spent a few years writing tunes in Scream Tracker 3 and Impulse Tracker 2. Since moving to the Mac, I have used Reason, Ableton Live, GarageBand, and (naturally) Logic. I'm very happy with Logic, but I can imagine some projects in the future where I'll want to go a little oldschool and produce a piece of tracked music again.

It's nice to hear about apps like Renoise, and see comments from other tracked-music enthusiasts!

I spent days at a time in FastTracker II, and ScreamTracker 3 before that. I often yearn of the obvious keyboard-driven granularity of a tracker when I'm using Logic or GarageBand.

Strangely enough, I currently have this program loaded on my machine right now. Been using it for about eight months. It's very very cool for what it is. It's surprising, really, that it hasn't gotten more attention.

I used MIDI (timing slop), many hardware samplers (expensive), and drawers full of floppy diskettes (which were slow, small and could just 'go bad') until the software side matured. Not that it was any better, obviously. Sometimes I finish a song now and I have this feeling that I haven't spent enough time on it yet. I need to find that feeling. Find it and crush it.

or you could try milkytracker which is free: http://www.milkytracker.net/

I used Renoise a little while back, and boy, I was impressed. Being a fan of FastTracker 2 tho, I'm not sure how familiar the conventions used will be to new users. I'm nowhere near a professional musician, but Renoise is a lot of fun.

I am not a super heavy user of renoise, but I have done quite a bit on it.

It is way nicer than the old FTII interface as soon as you start playing around with it. Everything is accessible behind right click menus if you need them, and configurable keyboard shortcuts if you don't.

I'm really excited to see more of the things you'll be posting. You seem rad.