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Radium Music Editor
- pvg 1y agoA thread in 2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9493536
- keysdev 1y agoWhy are you downvoted? I like how we can find past thread about the same topic
- ofalkaed 1y agoVoting 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.
- Uehreka 1y agoHN has been Eternal Septembered for years. The behaviors and tastes of the userbase have evolved in a different direction from what the guidelines prescribe, and there is no going back.
- leothetechguy 1y agoI use it and love it. Worth the money!
- gbraad 1y ago... on which platform are you using it? It keeps crashing for me
- ofalkaed 1y agoI have not had a single crash on linux, but I did compile it myself. If you did compile it, did you do the release or just clone the repo? it says in the readme that the repo tends to be very unstable and you should always build from the latest release.
- gbraad 1y ago... source available? I was not even aware of that. I only used the prebuilt binaries on Windows (as was recommended). I am checking out the source as we speak!
- leothetechguy 1y agoOn linux it's very stable, on windows slightly less, but only in edge cases when stacking a big number of effects. Haven't used it on mac though, I think it either was or still is in beta on that platform. I was also unhappy about instability in the beginning, but it magically became better after regularly using it.
- kookamamie 1y ago> Information to warez groups Oh wow!
- l33tbro 1y ago> 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.
- kookamamie 1y agoYes, makes sense and I don't mind at all - was part of the same scene.
- Zambyte 1y ago> Scripting in [...] Scheme Interesting, does anyone have experience with this? How well does this work?
- ofalkaed 1y agohttps://github.com/kmatheussen/radium/blob/master/api/protos.conf 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 1y agonever 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 1y agoCakewalk 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.
- pantulis 1y agoWasn't there even some kind or arpeggiator script writen in CAL? I think it was circa 1997 or so.
- RankingMember 1y agoI'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 1y agohttps://youtu.be/dw4A97V8mhM https://youtu.be/dw4A97V8mhM Coming to a theatre near you this Summer... The Curies.
- drannex 1y agoThis 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 1y ago>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 1y agoDoes 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 1y agoNot OP but none of those have native linux support.
- ta988 1y agoBitwig does and it works really well. pretty much a replacement for live.
- bigyabai 1y agoI'll second Bitwig. It's not often I pay $400 for something and regret nothing, let alone software. But Bitwig has proven its worth.
- mettamage 1y agoNote to Bitwig curious people. It currently has a sale, so it's $300 (300 euro's if you're in Europe). During Black Friday they also seem to have a sale. The music software industry tends to have these sales in general around these times.
- fabiofzero 1y agoThis 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 1y agoAround 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 1y agoHow does this compare to Nodal ? https://nodalmusic.com https://nodalmusic.com
- skrebbel 1y agoHardly
- bane 1y agoNo comparison at all, but thanks! I've been looking for a good generative music tool for a while and this looks very interesting.
- CyMonk 1y agohere is an alternative to nodal: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1727420/Midinous/
- ConanRus 1y agothe most popular one would be Renoise
- DidYaWipe 1y agoBummer 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.
- 0x20cowboy 1y agoI have a smaller tracker app that has similar problems on mac. When you use the keyboard for navigation , holding down a key brings up the accent dialog thing. It also starts doing that “bllllllllllpppppp” noise like you’re doing something wrong. If you try to add sandbox and harding the SDL timer seems to go nuts, loops too fast and crashes often. Also, a lot of old tracker code uses 32 bit tricks that arm64 just doesn’t like and there doesn’t seem to be a nice way to force a 32 bit mode. If you dont build with sandbox or harding it behaves better, but then of course you can’t validate or distribute it.
- DidYaWipe 1y agoThanks for the info! Never heard of "harding" though.
- 0x20cowboy 1y ago“Hardening”[1] apologies. [1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-the-hardened-runtime https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-...
- DidYaWipe 1y agoAh, OK! Thanks.
- schwartzworld 1y agoI would recommend trying sunvox if you want to dip into trackers. It is free on desktop and cheap on mobile and runs on most platforms. In fact, I have a 2012 iPad that runs it fine. Trackers are just a different way of entering midi data and automation, literally typing in the values you want. They offer an unreal level of granular control, but at the expense of being able to visualize your melodies on a horizontal timeline. Modern trackers are basically complete DAWs and sunvox is no exception. It contains a modular synthesis system that is amazing for sound design and creating your own reusable instruments and effect modules. I find myself writing less repetitive parts with a tracker, closer to what I would write if I was composing with staff paper.
- bane 1y agoFor those asking how this is different than other non-tracker DAWs, the answer is basically "this is a tracker". For those not familiar, trackers are a type of music composition software that's been around in one form or another since maybe the mid-80s. [1] Used very heavily in the demoscene, chiptune, and adjacent parts of game development scenes. The power of trackers is in the workflow, which provides an incredibly fast interface for writing music compare to other interfaces like piano rolls, staves and notes, multi-track DAWs and so forth. They take a bit to get to used to, but allow you to compose basically as fast as you can type notes. This speeds up iteration in testing musical ideas substantially. The interface concept also lends itself to a very compact representation of multiple tracks allowing a composer to see what's happening elsewhere in their composition. It can feel a lot like programming in many ways, and like you are working a level "below" almost all other composition software and closer to the music and instruments. The format lends itself very well to compositions in 4/4 time, but most tracker software lets you change the time signature, tempo, and other things so that very complex compositions with weird rhythmic patterns are not too hard to pull off. There are dedicated tracker software for all kinds of musical workflows: sample-based, chiptune, NES, MIDI, VST, modular synths, etc. and tracker software exists on pretty much every platform and targeting nearly every output audio device you could possibly imagine. There are literally millions of tracked pieces of music in the world, covering an innumerable number of genres. Best of all, most tracking software is free, or incredibly cheap, well documented with videos showing you how to do things and thousands to hundreds of thousands of examples you can open to see how a particular musician accomplished something. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_tracker 2 - Here's a tracker I particularly like who works in a lot of styles, especially tracks "Living, again and again" (both mixes), "Accidental Ray of Sun (Piano Mix)", "Aurielis (lf box mix)", and "Transitory" https://soundcloud.com/elblanco5 https://soundcloud.com/elblanco5 According to a comment, he did most of this in a tracker called "Impulse Tracker" which is now replicated for modern systems as "Schism Tracker" - a completely sample based tool.
- LennyHenrysNuts 1y agoI use https://www.renoise.com/ https://www.renoise.com/
- gbraad 1y agoThis could be what I am looking for... But in general use it feels slow and very unstable. I tried on Windows, as that was 'recommended' I tried this with some of my own OctaMED files, and the experience has been ... well ... not pleasant. None of them load. Note: I used MED, OctaMED 4, OctaMED SoundStudio, Protracker, before moving to Renoise, Reaper and Bitwig. Also used Samplitude and Sonar for a long time. Amiga user with a large collection of modules and samples I created over the decades. I like trackers and hate pianorolls. I like the Korg Gadget interface, but want a tracker for MIDI.
- ofalkaed 1y ago>but want a tracker for MIDI. Renoise is probably your best option for a midi tracker, Radium (and most trackers) are meant to be stand alone and they always seem to have issues or irritating limitations when it comes to midi.
- gbraad 1y agoThe midi mapping and routing is fine, but Renoise only loads .MOD, but does not understand .MID-files; For me, it is about loading phrases, arpeggiators, etc.
- sp8 1y agoHave you ever found anything which loads & plays *MED files properly? Specifically MMD2 format files from SoundStudio. I've also got loads I created back in the Amiga days, and I've still got SS itself running on an old laptop but would prefer something that could play/render them to WAV on macOS.
- weinzierl 1y agoOh wow, for someone who grew up with trackers and is now mostly a Reaper guy this sounds really interesting. What on earth do they use LLVM for?
- frabert 1y agoThe Faust environment maybe?
- bthallplz 1y agoFor others curious to see how it works/is used: - Its manual (text and graphics): https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/documentation/ https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/documentation/ - A video tutorial (unofficial source): https://youtu.be/9-ttkNfVqgk?si=Xz0D_nV3Jt6fVUKO https://youtu.be/9-ttkNfVqgk?si=Xz0D_nV3Jt6fVUKO
- bigfishrunning 1y agoIt makes me happy to see s7 scheme making it into more programs -- It's a lovely tool for adding scriptability to any program