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Note that they're still used today.

if you want to keep going down the youtube rabbit hole...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDn7ZDcx9w0

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Probably the biggest reasons I think they still get used today:

- Really good for breakbeat chopping as they essentially put samples front and centre with the tools to do that. If you check out renoise the first tutorials are about that, but we're talking about octamed etc here...

- I hear a lot of people on music production chat seeking that 'bitcrushed' sampling sound and while you can definitely emulate it using other stuff it's definitely not the same as the entire damn song getting bitcrushed into an 8-bit .MOD file (Or whatever it is you're playing through it - perhaps it's controlling some crisp sounding midi synths and you're good with say bitcrushed vocals and percussion) and I think that has some appeal

- they look cool

I follow a few of these artists, @deatonchrisanthony on instagram has been posting some fun videos

Another big reason is that the limitations actually make you more creative. I learned producing EDM in the FL Studio era and in a sense it's a godsend you don't have to buy all that expensive hardware. On the other hand modern DAWs give you so much freedom its somewhat exhausting. The entry level to produce technical genres like DnB are extremely high nowadays.

This is it right here. Limitations and being able to wrap your head around every piece of the tool you’re using. It’s so easy to get lost in tools like Ableton. They can put you in a headspace that is always fiddling and not actually focused on making music. I think modular gear does this to people too. My friends that go down the modular rabbit hole sometimes don’t realize they haven’t made anything but bloops with their 10,000+ modular. And not in an awesome Autechre/Richard Devine way that has structure and a goal.

Some modular synth producers I've seen like venetian snares use renoise to pull it all together [1]

Aphex has had some things to say about it too although for 'vordhosbn' at least it sounds like he's been more happy with a program I never heard of until now called Playerpro [2] [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBaKOcuNTYs

[1] https://imgur.com/a/eofh5

[3] https://forum.renoise.com/t/anyone-who-likes-aphex-twin-and-...

And there is a niche of people using set of two Amigas as dj decks and mixing tracker tunes between them. I absolutely love it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvP08ezbicU

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