I’m incredibly happy with Renoise. I bought it last night, to “render” (mixdown) the song I was working on. I did my first mixdowns by ‘cheating’ – mixing down from my sound subsystem. But this application has been continually surprising me. I keep discovering new features right as I need them, and while it’s got a really busy interface, it’s surprisingly intuitive, at least for an old-school tracker user like myself.
So, I bought it because I want to see these folks continue to develop it. Yes, I prefer open source software and such on a philosophical level, but it’s worth it to “compromise my ideals” in this case, and open my wallet. Even if nothing else comes from RPM 2013, at least I’ve started getting nice and comfortable with a new piece of software, and I’m surprisingly pleased with the piece I’ve been working on so far, as well.