Woah, that looks really interesting. I've long thought that the old fashioned hexadecimal columner way of entering effects on tracks is a mess. It looks like this lets you see envelopes, effects and more visually?

I might want to give it a spin to see if it's as intuitive as I think it might be?

Here's a very classic track in it https://youtu.be/ZGtlJKmGLNY

Only tangentially related, but I love this note at the bottom of the Radium download page:

> 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. (Just compiling the source is cheating!)

I'm intrigued by radium and I tried it once, didn't get too far. The feature set looks amazing, but doesn't seem exactly easy to use. I think this screen shot from the front page says it all. https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/pictures/radium_6_0...

Is it really that much less unfriendly-looking than the original Soundtracker?

http://kestra.exotica.org.uk/files/screenies/59000/Soundtrac...

I am not a musician by any stretch of the imagination, but I fooled around with Soundtracker on my Amiga back in the late eighties, and most of that screenshot makes sense to me: upper left is a pattern being edited, with some graphical display of the waveforms added in along with some lines showing the envelope of volume/effects/etc (instead of having to type in hex numbers), upper right is some effects, and most of the bottom is a sequence of patterns, with extra tracks layered on top of that, which is a pretty neat addition to the traditional tracker way of working - make a sequence of patterns as usual, then add in other stuff in a horizontal format based on timeline-based DAWs.

I think familiarity has something to do with it, but your own screenshot is definitely way less cluttered than the radium one, which is showing A LOT. It's not just the waveforms, which I get, but also what seem to be multiple layers-within-layers of sequences or something like that. To be fair, I've seen other screenshots of radium that look a lot more sane. This one might just be arranged to show off all the things that radium has going on.

Oh yeah, your Radium screenshot is hella complicated - but the surprising thing to me is how much it makes sense for me, even though the last time I touched a tracker was back around 1998.

You could always try Orca: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/orca.html

holy fuck

> Radium

There is close/save dialog box without buttons, you have to type yes/no. First time I see this in desktop app.

Radium came out in 2000? How have I never heard of this??

A search for Radium in the context of free music or recording software in the early 2000s would have yielded dramatically different results.

I'll explain the in-joke: Radium was the name of the premier, and to my knowledge only successful, "audiowarez" group. So if you were a teenager and you wanted to switch from Fast tracker II to "professional" tools such as Logic or Sound Forge, you'd likely find a pirated copy somewhere and if you did, it'd likely include an info file that said it was provided by Radium.

I have no clue who they were and how they managed to crack and spread just about every piece of super expensive audio software out there, but they did. I bet the vendors hated it but it was a life saver for us teenagers.