Radium Music Editor

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.

I 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.

Thanks for the info!

Never heard of "harding" though.

I 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.

“Hardening”[1] apologies.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-...