[Compyfox]

And for completeness sake in terms of Propellerheads ReBirth:
http://www.ocremix.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=64756

[MaliceX]

Discontinued MIDI sequencer(s):
WinJammer Professional 5.06
www.winjammer.com
By Dan McKee (C) 1992-1997 Officially defunct as of 2003. (Archive.org does not have the discontinuation page)
Size: 3 disks (v5.03 not including update) or 1.5MB (v5.06 with registry file required)

MIDISoft Studio 4
unknown URL
unknown author (C) 1991-1995.
Size: Less than 1MB zipped

I have these to be distributed, though only for those that are interested. If you're willing to upload these to your webspace, let me know and I'll send you the necessary files.

[OverCoat]

Anyone checked out Schism Tracker? It's a near-perfect Impulse Tracker clone for new OS :)

http://rigelseven.com/schism/

and the XP build can be found here:

http://nimh.org/schism/

[Hylian Lemon]

[edited for stupidity] (sorry!!)

[MaliceX]

http://www.dynebolic.org/

Some free multimedia OS; run straight from a CD or dumped on HD. Image available for download free of charge.

[Malcos]

Wow, was looking for some freeware mastering plugins and came across this site:

rocketloop.com

Links to loads of free VST plugins and instruments!

EDIT (20 July 2006): Site is now
http://www.free-plugin-list.com

[sonicbhoc]

If you like FL Studio and you use linux, give LMMS a try. I only used it for a couple of minutes but it looked cool. I was able to get a couple of loops in but I probably forgot how to use it by now...

[Nineko]

if you wish to try trackers, don't forget to give Fast Tracker 2 a try. it's really simpler to use than ModPlugTracker, imo. on the other side, it's definitely less powerful.
oh, and the head post is wrong about MPT, btw. it does support a midi keyboard, while it's pretty hard to use it properly. I'm not a great fan of MPT. my personal advice is to write music in FT2 and then import it in MPT for the final editings and to add some effects like reverb and/or other plugins (yeah, MPT is very customizable).

k. trackers for the win.

(oh, feel free to PM me if you use a tracker too and you're interested in some kind of collaborations or cultural exchanges)

[Blaster]

are you serious?? FT2 is a dos program(!)
Just trying to get it work properly is a whole adventure for most people. Use milkytracker instead. This is a windows clone of ft2 with additional features.

If you want other trackers, here are a few:
madtracker
modplug
renoise
psycle
skale

recommended: madtracker, renoise, psycle

The ones recommended have most active developers, have the most useful features and active/friendly communities.

Try united trackers more information on trackers.

p.s. it doesn't hurt to stay up-to-date on trackers :p

[wintermadness]

i've got a question.
im really interested in making videogame music and was wondering what are some good books to start out with ?
im gonna start playing around remixing around game music to just get the hang of it and then start progressing into my own. some advice?
thanxs in advance.