[linux-audio-user] Re: composing with trackers

[Kjetil S. Matheussen]

"Chuckk Hubbard":
>
> I've used very few trackers.  I think I was turned off that the
> default is for all notes to be the same length, and that changing the
> number of beats in any measure seemed kind of involved.
> If you've never written music, and you don't own any instruments, and
> you open a program for the first time that shows you 8 divisions per
> measure with a steady beat, you'll probably make a lot of music before
> you discover what other options are available.  Multiply this by a
> million users, and you've got the makings of a long-term association
> with RDM (retarded dance music).  Try entering Debussy into a tracker
> and see how intuitive it is; and yet the music itself is very easy to
> listen to.

A tracker is not necessarily a tracker. Check out radium, it doesn't 
comply to what your limited understanding of a tracker is.