The stereotypical tracker-users of yesteryear defined the image of tracking.. that's true unfortunately. And some of those composers did a nice job, but looking back on it from today's perspective.. it does sound outdated ofcourse. That's because of 4 things: the generation that grew-up with trackers was more into dance/trance/electronica, secondly: conventoinal instruments ppl sampled usually came from keyboards (which sounded quite crap back then) or silent parts from CD's, thirdly: it was the time of dial-up modems.. tunes weren't meant to be too big.. a few hundred kb orso.. but certainly not up to 64MB orso, and fourthly: tracking was easy to do, you didn't need any studio-equipment, so a lot of tracking-tunes were made worldwide.. a lot by ppl with little musical background.
But it was so easy to blame the concept of tracking for all that :P
It's comparible to BASIC btw.. I think we can honestly say that the built-in basics from the old 80's homecomputers sucked eggs.. with their gotos, non-local variables, non-procedural stuff and crappy/limited editors.
In a way Blitzbasic could suffer from that. But does it make blitz bad, just because it's based on basic?
But it was so easy to blame the concept of tracking for all that :P
It's comparible to BASIC btw.. I think we can honestly say that the built-in basics from the old 80's homecomputers sucked eggs.. with their gotos, non-local variables, non-procedural stuff and crappy/limited editors.
In a way Blitzbasic could suffer from that. But does it make blitz bad, just because it's based on basic?