Hi,
Thanks for the welcoming.
I've tried plenty of them, basically the open source ones which run on linux. Schism, Milkytracker, fasttracker 2 clone, the original one and klystrack. My conclusions so far are:
Schism
I like the keyboard driven interface, I use it with a laptop so it is quite convinient. I also like it to chop samples, since it is basically numerical and I can chop interactively. I also like that once I've chopped a sample on the beat, the rest of chops are easier since I have the actual lenght of the sample. It is also easy to set the speed so that it sounds like the original.
The thing a don't like about this tracker is that I quantizes too much when live recording. I like to layout the drum live recording and that's not possible with schism, may be there's an option but I haven't found it.
I also don't like that the filter is instrument wise. I like to put a chop or a drum in each key, a la MPC, so I need different filters for each sample.
MilkyTracker.
For now the one I'm playing with. I doen't have either the quantize problem nor the filters problem. The only downfall is that is not so much keyboard driven. I miss some further information about shortcuts, since I feel there are some missing like, for example, I can browse files with (I don't remember if it is exactly this combination) Ctr+Shift+Up/Down, but i can't select a file from the keyboard, at least I haven't found the shortcut yet. I also miss a load sample shortcut and some shortcuts to chop interactively the samples. For the rest it works just fine for me.
Klystrack.
Too synthesis oriented to be a good option for me.
Fastracker 2 / clone.
Very much like milkytracker, well the other way arround, but without filters and effects AFAIK.
Well that's my current experience, I've came to a rather good work flow, but I haven't done anything too complicated yet. Any piece of advice is very welcome.
