as i am new here, i'd like to introduce myself the same way...
i never had any classical music education, i just started doing music by getting fasttracker2 packed with three disks full of samples (ripped from the usual MODs and some newer EuroDance-crap) back in 95.
there were some attempts to switch to the trackers of my amiga, but i didn't enjoy the "guru's meditations"...and i never felt sorry to stay with msdos.
a very deep friendship with FT2 arose & we're still together, though i am using hardware and other software (and at least post-msdos-programms) too
turned out after 3-4 years that i slowly got bored with the structures of (conventional) dance music, and after trying to build up rave, techno, some ambient alike drones and some rare (goa) trance XMs i started to turn into a noiz-maker.

now i am sometimes running 3 PCs with three different fasttrackers simultaniously and enjoy the feeling, the rhythms and the frequencies.