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[Greippi]

I've started to use also MilkyTracker and NitroTracker nowadays.

MilkyTracker is pretty good for chiptunes.

[MatrixMaster3]

how much have you made on Nitrotracker? I'm always itching to hear more Nitro tunes. Wanna upload 'em in the Nitro Tracks & Songs forum for people to listen to? Please?!?!

[Cool Dude Clem]

For me it has to be Open Modplug Tracker, I started out on the standard version, witch was very easy to learn and then upgraded to OpenMPT, mainly because I can use VST instruments on it. 

So basically I like OpenMPT, because it's user friendly, I know just about all the tricks for making chip-tunes on it, it works with just about any computer (unlike those DOS trackers *cough fasttracker II*) and it can use VST's

[Saga Musix]

Speaking of which, OpenMPT 1.17.02.54 has been released today.

[HED]

I started tracking in 1998 with Modplug Tracker. Then I stopped in 2001 because school etc.
When I got out of school in 2007 I started tracking again. I started small, with Fami Tracker. Then moved to LMMS and resolved to return to tracker mode (LMMS was a sequencer like FL Studio but freeware).
2009: madTracker but the Vst were too much for my PC and my musical skills, so I came back to the source.
 
Today I'm tracking with FT2 (Dosbox) and i now understand why many musicians stick to this wonderful app 

[Greippi]

I started tracking in 1998 with Modplug Tracker. Then I stopped in 2001 because school etc.
When I got out of school in 2007 I started tracking again. I started small, with Fami Tracker. Then moved to LMMS and resolved to return to tracker mode (LMMS was a sequencer like FL Studio but freeware).
2009: madTracker but the Vst were too much for my PC and my musical skills, so I came back to the source.
 
Today I'm tracking with FT2 (Dosbox) and i now understand why many musicians stick to this wonderful app 

I use LMMS too, but it's not actually freeware but free software. There's quite a difference.

LMMS seems to be more popular than I thought!

[Rhythmic_mind]

I started tracking way back when in around 1996. Digital Tracker on Atari Falcon - good ole days It read .mod/.xm/.it files, but it would only save in DTM format (can anyone here claim to know it? ). I discovered ModPlug Tracker sometime around 2000 along with switching to a PC, and have been happy with it since. I can't imagine using a different tool nowadays. I first started composing in .mod, but quickly switched to .xm, and a couple of years later to .it. It's what I'm currently using, and it feels most comfortable.

[Sample Damage]

Started out on a progam called Soundclub in 96, it was a simple side scrolling Mod tracker
quickly moved to FASTTRACKER after seeing/hearing the possibilty's with .xm

i have tried others since, IT, Milky, used Renoise on a few, Skale, Modpug \ loads of others


These days i just use FT2 2.08 running on a Win98 PII with 256mb of ram using a Soundblaster
.....when the macine dies, i just build another out of scrap  at zero cost!
nothing else really does it for me, FT2 fits like a glove, has a bit of grit, its great!

wouldn't mind sourcing a awe64/gold for it ethier, i have fond memories of that card 

[CommanderKeen]

I started out in Scream Tracker, then moved to Impulse Tracker and now I use Schism Tracker. I guess once you are used to an interface you just want to stick to it.

[skope]

Protracker 3.62 is the one I logged the most amount of hours in and there's really no other tracker that gets me in the zone workflow-wise quicker than it does. However I've started to grow real fond of XM and Milkytracker lately, even though I often curse over my hands doing PT-things all the time. Also Milkytracker looks really nice. It looks like candy with all the colorful digits and letters in the pattern. (: