Sets from recent shows that included mostly #impulsetracker tracks from the early aughts, that I had split up into stems for live mangling, have received two surprising compliments and comparisons to both Stockhausen and Atomâ„¢.
The only musical effect available in that tracker is a low pass resonant filter (with some hacks for high pass), which allows samples and looping instruments to sound a bit like a subtractive synth, also with rudimentary drawable envelopes.
Often I'll describe how not having endless fx like every daw has puts more focus on quickly making nearly complete tracks of NN patterns where I can just keep pushing forward, cloning the next pattern making some changes, Next..
When I think of an app like Reason, I think of it as noodle hell, and since Renoise also has endless fx and even supports vst instruments, I need to keep rules in mind to avoid getting mired in noodles