I personally prefer OctaMED 5 (I do have OSS on disk somewhere with no manuals), and always use the score sheets to compose music. It usually takes me about 2 hours to compose a decent (1 min 30 secs) piece of music.
If there are tutorials about changing the numbers to add sound effects I'd love to see them too.
I have Soundtracker, but don't like it at all.
Regards,
Lonewolf10