I recently dug into the vaults and pulled out some music I made back in 1993 to 2003, when I was using the Commodore Amiga 500 w/ AMAS digitizer/Midi Interface and soundtracker (I believe that was the 4track tracker I used back then)
Later on I used a PC with Fasttracker 2 and fell in love with it... towards the end of 2003 I remember moving from DOS and using one of the windows trackers called Skale Tracker which was very similar to FT2.
I played around with just about every tracker there was.. I remember liking the way Impluse tracker would playback MODS but I never got into using it to program music
Scream Tracker I never used much... but remember it well.
Other gear I had was obviosuly turntables (as a DJ) and lots of vinyl as well as some oldschool DJ samplers from the early 90s like the raw 12bit Gemini DS-8 which I still have and the legendary Casio SK-1 8bit sampling keybaord which I still have as well.
I lost touch with the tracking world after 2004 when I took a break from music and when I got back into remixing and producing music I had moved on to Native Instruments Maschine, and obviously DAWs like protools.
I currently use the Akai MPC ONE as my main tool but have been going through a lot of old music I made on trackers and have been playing around with a few trackers again.
It's cool to actually see forums like this still around!!
-BPM
instagram @tokyolondonrecordings
I have some of my old MODS on Spotify
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1IxOmsI4GAf3vwjQTKj7GT?si=guR5GkfyQziAFGBVFFJoJA
