[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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