Subj : Re: Resources for learning trackers
To   : Outlaw
From : halcy0n
Date : Tue Feb 12 2019 14:59:46

On 02/11/19, Outlaw inked down this thought...
 
 Ou> I thought there was some sort of commonality? I've got FastTracker 2
 Ou> installed but I think my plan was to eventually pick up Renoise, or even
 Ou> write a tracker plugin that would work in Reason.

There's commonality in the sense they all act like vertical ascending
trackers, and they have similar column layouts visually and such. But each
tracker is going to have different abilities depending on the file type
outputs and therefore will all behave differently, have their own quirks,
hotkeys, tricks to manipulate sound, limitations, etc.

If you want to learn Renoise, use Renoise. If you use FT2, you'll learn how
to use FT2 and whatever overlaps between the two, but not what doesn't... You
can pretty much make the same type of jams you can make on the older
trackers, on the new ones, by artificially limiting your samples, effects,
and other choices, if you want. If your ultimate goal is to learn Renoise
though, I'd just do that to begin with and look up some Renoise tutorials :P

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