TW #3 — Music: Beginning the Tracking Experience (Psibelius)
psibelius on how he started tracking and what a newcomer should avoid.
Key claims#
- He began in March 1994 with Renaissance's MultiTracker 1.01b; with nobody to teach him he opened someone else's song, deleted all the patterns and wrote something new with their instruments — a weird "Ode to Joy" within hours.
- Advice: ignore people telling you that you suck, "evaluate the good, and improve how you want when you want"; don't call your own mods "totally awesome" and "PLEASE don't WRiTe LiKe THiS"; credit the person whose instruments you use; avoid "trial member" groups; take a break when blocked — "not everyone can compose 999999999 songs a day".
- He founded Epinicion Productions on the idea that newcomers should not go through the abuse he did.
Relevance#
Scene history and beginner workflow; the "learn from someone else's module" method is still the fastest way into a tracker.