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  • Re: Resources for learnin

    From halcy0n@FREEWAY to Carlsr on Sun Feb 10 14:41:00 2019
    On 02/09/19, Carlsr inked down this thought...

    If you're looking for resources on a specific tracker, it would be
    helpful to know which one you had in mind, otherwise in general, youtube has some great resources.

    Yeah I'd say at this point, the easiest point of entry for "guides" or
    learning resources are just searching your chosen tracker on youtube. Doing this there's step-by-step videos for just about all current, and some
    oldschool trackers, their layouts, and getting started guides.

    As far as standard practices go, I remember back in the day the way I became familiar with Scream Tracker 3 and Impulse Tracker was to find a track I
    really dug, pull all the samples from it, start fresh and attempt to recreate it. That way I wasn't just trying to pull greatness out of thin air, and I
    was starting to train myself to be able to have a tune in my head and try to transpose it back into the tracker. This method cuts out the creativity & frustration part, and just gets you to learn how to operate the tracker
    itself, and get your ideas on to paper so to speak.

    I never ended up being a dope tracker artist, but this at least allowed me to become familiar with the software and learn my way around it :P

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  • From Outlaw@FREEWAY to All on Mon Feb 11 22:44:00 2019
    I thought there was some sort of commonality? I've got FastTracker 2 installed but I think my plan was to eventually pick up Renoise, or even write a tracker plugin that would work in Reason.


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  • From halcy0n@FREEWAY to Outlaw on Tue Feb 12 14:59:00 2019
    On 02/11/19, Outlaw inked down this thought...

    I thought there was some sort of commonality? I've got FastTracker 2 installed but I think my plan was to eventually pick up Renoise, or even 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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  • From Outlaw@FREEWAY to Halcy0n on Thu Feb 14 08:21:00 2019
    Thanks!


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