[ANN] Radium 1.9.22

[kmatheussen]

Radium is a music editor with a new and better interface.
It's inspired by trackers, but has fewer limitations and uses graphics to show musical data.

The advantages of this interface compared to piano rolls (the normal sequencer interface), are that note editing is quicker, and that more musical data fits on the screen.
The advantage of this interface compared to trackers, is that note positions and effects are edited graphically, which is both quicker, provides more vertical space, and gives a better musically overview.

However, despite it's unusual appearance, it's a design goal for Radium to be straight forward to use, and easy to learn. It should not be harder to learn Radium than any tracker or most midi sequencers.



Homepage: http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/

Some of the changes between 1.9.3 and 1.9.22:
* Improved graphics
* Waveforms are shown in the tracks
* Various improvements to the sampler instrument
* Automatic crash reporter. A dialog shows up asking you to send an automatic bug report if Radium crashes.
* A bunch of bug fixes.
* Radium can be used as midi synth

Full changelog: https://github.com/kmatheussen/radium/b ... /Changelog

[jeffh]

Just wanted to say that this is a great project, and I appreciate the bold new ideas and concepts you have based it on...

I've long said that Linux audio is never going to beat Windows by out-Cubase-ing Cubase, that we need to innovate instead of imitate, and have the courage to try things that the commercial software houses are too afraid to try(notice that the core functionality of Cubase hasn't changed that much since the 90s)... Best of luck, keep up the good work.

[kmatheussen]

Just wanted to say that this is a great project, and I appreciate the bold new ideas and concepts you have based it on...

I've long said that Linux audio is never going to beat Windows by out-Cubase-ing Cubase, that we need to innovate instead of imitate, and have the courage to try things that the commercial software houses are too afraid to try(notice that the core functionality of Cubase hasn't changed that much since the 90s)... Best of luck, keep up the good work.

Thank you, that's very kind.

[Vixus]

This looks amazing! Will take me back to my psycle days.
I'm going to see how it fares vs. qtractor too

[kmatheussen]

Just tried to build a package for it.
It builds fine, but fails in the install step:

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make[2]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/radium-1.9.22'
bash check_install_dependencies.sh
Checking install dependencies: 
export RTMIDI_CFLAGS="-D__LINUX_ALSA__  -D__RTMIDI_DEBUG__"

Missing RTMIDI_CFLAGS=-D__UNIX_JACK__ in build_linux_common.sh
make[2]: *** [install] Error 255

I assume you changed build_linux_common.sh but forgot to change it back?
I'll wait your input before retrying.

Jack audio and jack midi hasn't been synchronized yet, so I have disabled
jack midi in radium for now. It should work though.

[studio32]

Interesting software. I'm interested in howto load and use drum samples

[kmatheussen]

Jack audio and jack midi hasn't been synchronized yet, so I have disabled
jack midi in radium for now. It should work though.

so we need to modify the make install step to don't show that error then?

(I'll do that myself for now, but please fix it)

Fixed in git. Thanks!