2004, "dilvie", new.scene.org (on newsgroup alt.music.mods)
Trackers have broken out of the demoscene, are are[sic] now in use by thousands of professional musicians. It's not uncommon to hear about people using trackers on DJ forums, and electronic music production communities[…]
2008, Karen Collins, Game sound:
Although there were a few game companies outside the Amiga scene that used a tracker format (Epic Mega-Games, for instance), the majority used the better-supported MIDI.
2018, Dafni Tragaki, Made in Greece: Studies in Popular Music:
At the time, tracking chiptunes (i.e. using trackers) was the fundamental method of chipmusic-making.