Radium Music Editor

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.

>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.

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.

Not OP but none of those have native linux support.

I assume you've seen ReNoise.

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.

Bitwig does and it works really well. pretty much a replacement for live.

I'll second Bitwig. It's not often I pay $400 for something and regret nothing, let alone software. But Bitwig has proven its worth.

Yes, and it's phenomenal as a tracker, but doesn't have the automation guides or the horizontal linear composition editor.

I really need to carve out some time to look at this and compare to Renoise. The in-line representation of automation/effects look absolutely killer to me as I usually have to manage a lot of that in my head when working.

I put an answer here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44505703

Bitwig is great, ... and works on Linux (flatpak!)

It's not well-known, but there's a free plugin for REAPER called Hackey-Trackey that's quite solid:

https://github.com/JoepVanlier/Hackey-Trackey

REAPER is available on Windows/Mac/Linux as well.