MilkyTracker

There are much more modern trackers as well. As far as I know, the absolute state of the art is Renoise. There are some other alternatives like SunVOX.

The downside of the modern trackers is that you very much have to replay the songs in the tracker themselves, with all of the same plugins and settings. The older formats have lots of playback targets and tend to be very resource light for a very good sound.

FT2 was pretty much my intro to making music, it came on a PC Format magazine cover CD with a a bunch of XM/MOD files and it blew my mind that I could open up these songs and see how they were made!

I never got particularly good with it but had some fun making tracks with a friend, we later graduated to MadTracker on Windows which added some useful things like filters and effects. Buzz was the last tracker I used, really awesome modular tracker which sadly got mostly abandoned. I am a big fan of Elektron hardware which is pretty tracker inspired though!

https://milkytracker.org/about/

https://www.renoise.com/

Shameless self promo, but I released a tiny album of .xms using Milkytracker back in the day [0] on Disasterpeace’s (composer for Fez, among others) label, which I am still quite fond of. 4mat, of course, was, and is still, a huge influence.

[0]: https://jophish.bandcamp.com/album/distance

https://deflemask.net/

It really depends on the compatibility as for me protracker functions are important. Renoise doesn't even do all but it's an overall great tool. Others are sunvox (crossplatform Jeskola Buzz-like), or even native on UAE/Amiga I would se OctaMED. I have to say, OpenMPT is also good, especially for playback.

Here's a wee thing I knocked together very quickly a while back. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G39Eupk72W0

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