Welcome to the forum. Sure, PXT-General could be used in that context although I'm not sure how useful it would be given that Max is already well suited to manipulating MIDI data (which is primarily what PXT-General does).

The new ASC album was done in Renoise.! Most breakcore producers, like Venetian Snares and a lot of the other Planet Mu guys, use old-skool trackers - Namely MED Studio - Which is freeware and about as hardcore as you're going to get. Paradox still uses the original Amiga version, OctaMED, doesn't he.?

The learning curve on trackers is very steep, but give someone a tracker and in a week or two they'll be able to program things that would take months to do in Logic/Reason/etc. And would NEVER sound as tight or as slick. Programming beats, start offsets, panning, fx, etc. Carmina burana o fortuna midi skirts. Tracker style, makes the whole sequencer come alive - You can do things I'd not even think about attempting in SX or Pro Tools.

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With all respect to other software products, I think that trackers are the most creative tools, I still remember when I stopped using madtracker [becouse of sound] and start learning in reason I was very surprised that simple things I knew from trackers was quite hard to make with these sequencers, also later with cubase I found that very simple things from tracker's point of view was too complicated to make. When renoise implement piano roll and some proper mixer, maybe also advanced sampler options it will be best solution for producers at least comparing cost/quality.

Click to expand.I think I like the integration and lack of abstraction. If you think, like me, that 9/10ths of dance music production is editing samples, then layering, enveloping, looping and LFO-ing them, sequencing them and effecting them, and then maybe sampling the result again for another round of manipulation, then you'll probably need: 1) An audio editor application. 2) A sampler plugin. 3) A sequencer (with piano roll and arranger). 4) Effects plugins.

Renoise can do all of this, on three tabs, without need for plugins or external apps, and nothing hidden in menus. Live and Reason come close, but not to the same degree of integration at the sample level (you can select an area of sequencing in Renoise's pattern editor and choose 'Render selection to sample slot' for instance, and the result ends up in the sampler). Not having to flip between windows or 'Save As' samples and then 'Open' them elsewhere - that alone is a big plus for me. Then it has the usual tracker virtues (and limitations), which you have to try out for yourself to understand. Step input alone is nice sometimes, and trackers make great drum machines (although I'm using tools like Ruction and EST at the moment because I like slider control over velocity).

And the Fasttracker envelopes/LFOs rock IMO - for me, that's the dealbreaker which it has over other similar apps which are still using ADSR. In the first place it's different. Tracking technique is quite independent from common sequencers. Logic and Cubase deals with lots of things you are not using when you produce music, or to be more specific 'dance' music. Trackers are best when we're talking about 'creative use of samples' there is a big tracking knowledge in the time when VST did not exist, people were able to simulate effects like delay, reverb, flange, chorus, filters and so on just with intelligent using of samples and tracker. With trackers you can create very quickly things that you have to program in sequencer for much longer time. --- btw I've made a small clip in renoise so you can check it out how does it actually sound.