Just keep in mind that a tracker like FamiTracker won't teach you how to read music or anything, but it might help you learn about how to compose music better.
The rigid structure is quite good for learning how to compose music, I do agree. Also, the ability to playing by ear can be extremely helpful I've found.
Keep doing music whether you use FL Studio (or Cubase, etc.) or track - one can improve the other. Know you do NOT necessarily need to know notation, but how music steps work. To view the steps between beats, turn on the primary and secondary highlights for the pattern background. The primary/secondary highlights can be tweaked to have triplet/swing quality (3/12), standard (4/16), or theoretically any wacky step spacing you want. The standard setting for each beat is roughly 16 steps, and there are normally 64 steps in a pattern. You can have up to 256 steps in a pattern, but that's just silly. ^__~
Trackers are powerful tools if you know how to use them, but that's what's so much fun about them.
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You now process Dracula's Rib. Good luck processing it...
It's a long story. Some NES musicians (at least most of the American ones) used Digital Performer on Mac for their music and they also used Cakewalk for MS-DOS. Sonar is Cakewalk, just a brand new version of it. The company is still in business. It's now also an audio and video editor but I use it for General MIDI .mid files. It's used by a lot of professional artists. Digital Performer is still around too (heck even my band teacher has DP5.) Digital Performer is pretty much the Mac version of Sonar.
I can read music (slowly, but I can do it), and I can play piano and guitar a bit... but I mostly make music just by hitting random keys on my computer keyboard until it comes out right. :3
And, in fact, it works pretty darn well for me! Yeah, you're not gonna be good at it on your first dozen tries -- my first music sucked too -- but you keep practicing, and you keep listening to other people's music, and it won't be long before you get an idea of how it's done.
Trust me, if I can make good NES music, you can too. Just practice
Me too. The way I write music is like Dave Wise. I get notes floating in my head and if I think it sounds good I will write it down and if I think it will sound bad I will usually just dump it but sometimes I will write it down just for the fun of it and in case it sounds good, but sometimes when I write the music it will sound like crap (Hope I'm allowed to say that).
