What is Your experience Using Trackers

Been getting into tracker music recently and kind of looking for a better place to start.
My intro into the software was something called 1tracker, basically an experimental tracker used for ZXSpectrum in particular. Not very user friendly but i liked the process of making music. Then I figured out that it only exports in .scl, .ay, .tap, and assembly code. I’m 90% convinced that I’m not gonna figure out a way to convert that into an audio format. Tried looking at the creator’s forum posts on some tracker forum and my question was never answered, so i’ll assume no.

I might just download the Renoise demo and go from there, see whats up.

Recently I’ve been working on some jungle-adjacent tunes using Octamed 4 on the Amiga. I use an Amiga 500 with an ACA500Plus accelerator board. Started out on a Polyend Tracker a few years ago and that got me hooked on the workflow, and then I wanted to go full oldschool so I got a second hand Amiga. There’s something cool about using trackers that affects the way songs are built, but I can see how it isn’t for everyone. It definitely helps to be methodical and the hardware limitations force me to be very selective about what sounds I use.

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