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>I actually bought myself a whole collection of grooveboxes this year (MP7, MC505, MC307, MPC500, DR202, KO1, EM1, SP606, SP808, RM1X, SB246, QY100), and it's really taught me how expensive and how much of a hassle hardware really is in comparison to DAWs and trackers. And to add, I've since started using FLStudio 3.55 which has re-shifted my opinion on software trackers as it's a much more user friendly and intuitive software to use and to learn as a beginner in comparison to the more modern versions.
Replying to this post again, I'm on the verge of just coughing up the money for a Cirklon with the way my computer setup is. FL Studio has been my preferred way of working in the box, but I've never liked the feeling of using it in Linux. I've tried it through Wine and in a virtual machines, and it just feels off to me. I've also got it installed on my Windows partition, but the problem is that I don't like having to close everything and boot into Windows for that. And maybe it's just me, but I've never been good at finishing projects. I also never bothered learning any of the automation techniques.
I played around with Furnace a bit and really liked the workflow and bare-bones tracker interface, but there's no MIDI export function. It's also completely oriented around chip music, which is fine, but I'd like to also be able to input chords and everything. I'm a hardware syn