[HN Gopher] Radium Music Editor
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Radium Music Editor
Author : ofalkaed
Score : 119 points
Date : 2025-07-08 17:44 UTC (5 hours ago)
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| pvg wrote:
| A thread in 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493536
| keysdev wrote:
| Why are you downvoted? I like how we can find past thread about
| the same topic
| ofalkaed wrote:
| Voting on HN is not a like, it is about getting the good
| posts which produce good discussion at the top of the thread
| so we do not have to scroll through pedantry and nitpicking
| to get to the content. These posts offering old content are
| handy things to have in a thread but rarely produce good
| discussion and the best place in a thread for them is at thee
| bottom of the worthwhile posts but before the garbage posts
| which is where a single downvote _should_ get it in an ideal
| world but people probably just downvote such posts in an
| attempt to counter the upvotes such posts always get.
| leothetechguy wrote:
| I use it and love it. Worth the money!
| kookamamie wrote:
| > Information to warez groups
|
| Oh wow!
| l33tbro wrote:
| > Information to warez groups: Since the source is open, it
| should be simple to turn the demo into a fully featured
| version. Please let me know of any problems.
|
| Makes sense as their name suggests that they are affiliated
| with one of the original warez crews, Radium, who were around
| in the late 90s. Or that the name is an homage to Radium, who
| did a lot of massive releases that these developers may have
| grown up on.
| Zambyte wrote:
| > Scripting in [...] Scheme
|
| Interesting, does anyone have experience with this? How well does
| this work?
| ofalkaed wrote:
| https://github.com/kmatheussen/radium/blob/master/api/protos...
| gives some clues as to what can be done with Scheme/python. I
| never tried the scripting back when I used it years ago but it
| looks pretty useful, on my list of things to explore.
| abruzzi wrote:
| never tried Radium, but in Apple's Logic Pro you can write
| Javascript to do stuff to the MIDI as it comes in or goes out.
| I've found it quite useful. I once wrote a small script (at the
| request of another Logic user) that turned a monosynth that
| only supported "low note priority" into "last note priority."
| I'd be interested to see what Radium can do.
| mutagen wrote:
| Cakewalk has been scripted with a LISP (CAL) from the early
| days, at least through the 90s. I see hints that it still is
| but not sure with all the changes from Bandlab.
| RankingMember wrote:
| I'm familiar with Reaper but not this- can anyone who's used both
| give any color to the differences between this and a DAW like
| Reaper?
| austinallegro wrote:
| https://youtu.be/dw4A97V8mhM
|
| Coming to a theatre near you this Summer... The Curies.
| drannex wrote:
| This is almost exactly what I've been dreaming of: a tracker with
| a linear composition timeline and automation/modulation effect
| guides.
|
| Last year I even thought of just making my own, then got
| sidetracked. Hope this works as well as I dream.
|
| Not sure how I've never come across this one before.
| ofalkaed wrote:
| >Not sure how I've never come across this one before.
|
| From what I can tell, he has never put any real effort into
| making it known, it is primarily a personal project.
| GuinansEyebrows wrote:
| Does Logic Pro or Ableton Live not fit your bill? Not a pointed
| question, I'm genuinely curious. I don't know enough about
| trackers mainly coming from a sequencer background.
| nartho wrote:
| Not OP but none of those have native linux support.
| ta988 wrote:
| Bitwig does and it works really well. pretty much a
| replacement for live.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| Neither have anything remotely similar to a tracker
| interface. The closest "current" DAW would be something like
| ReNoise, but it lacks a bunch of the ideas that Radium uses,
| like working graphically _inside_ the tracker UI.
| TheRealPomax wrote:
| I assume you've seen ReNoise.
| fabiofzero wrote:
| This DAW has been in development for a long while but it's never
| been stable enough to be used seriously. I thought the project
| was dead until five minutes ago. Worth giving a try again, maybe.
| ofalkaed wrote:
| Around a decade ago I used it for about a year, don't recall
| any stability issues on linux. So far no issues with my first
| few hours of use since reinstalling.
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| How does this compare to Nodal ? https://nodalmusic.com
| skrebbel wrote:
| Hardly
| ConanRus wrote:
| the most popular one would be Renoise
| DidYaWipe wrote:
| Bummer about the reported Mac issues. Anybody have experience
| with it there?
|
| I have Logic, so I will probably never devote the time to trying
| to fix this. But maybe if I understood the "tracker" interface it
| would be more appealing.
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