composing with trackers

[Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings:

I have no idea if anyone's ever used a tracker to create a hit song, but 
it is unfortunate that trackers are usually associated with a particular 
style of music. I have heard some very cool stuff in module formats, 
though I'll agree that most of the music-made-with-trackers that I've 
heard tends towards rather uninteresting dance beat music. I don't 
believe that trackers necessarily impose any kind of style restriction, 
you can bend them into doing non-beat oriented stuff. Kuno's "Substantia 
Grisea" is an excellent example.

Developers are often surprised at what users wind up doing with their 
tools.

Trackers seem to have come along at a time just before cheap samplers 
hit the market, which might have drawn attention away from the 
developing tracker communities. Nevertheless, those communities remain 
strong, a lot of people like to make music with trackers, and I don't 
think they're overly concerned with their lack of popular success. ;)

Best,

dp