
Thanks for trying Radium!



Starting Radium
===============

Start Radium by double-clicking the radium icon.

After Radium has started you might want to configure your audio device
by opening the "Edit -> Soundcard preferences" menu entry.




If Radium didn't start
======================

* Make sure you don't have an old version of Jack installed.
  Either uninstall Jack, or update Jack to the latest version.

* Run the "radium_reset" program. Earlier you might have used
  an older version of Radium with an incompatible configuration.

* Send an email to k.s.matheussen@notam02.no and explain what happens.





HOWTO use Radium with Jack (optionally)
=======================================

Jack is an audio server which can be used to send audio in and out of Radium.
In addition, Jack gives you the ability to send audio between any
ASIO or Jack application, route sound any way you like, provide sample-accurately
synchronized playback between programs (this includes two or more instances
of Radium itself), send audio between programs over the network, etc.

A local custom-made version of Jack is already included with Radium, so it's not necessary
to install jack. However, the included version of Jack only works with Radium and
the included version of qjackctl. If you want to use other programs, you
must install Jack globally. Jack is found here: http://www.jackaudio.org

More information about running Jack in Windows is found here:
http://jackaudio.org/jack_on_windows.html


Recipe on how to use Radium with jack:

  1. Launch "qjackctl".

  2. Start the Jack audio server by pressing "Start" in the main qjackctl window.

  3. Wait until the status changes from "starting" to "started".
     (See below if it didn't start)
  
  4. Launch "radium".


If jack didn't start in point #3, first try again a couple of times. If that
didn't work, try running the "reset_qjackctl" program and try again. If that
didn't work, try selecting a different interface under "Setup" -> "Settings".
You might also want to try selecting "Playback Only" under "Advanced" -> "Audio".

The "dummy" driver always works, but you won't hear anything.
To get sound, you must select the "Portaudio" driver (selected by default).

An ASIO interface also usually works and performs well. If you have an ASIO interface,
this should be the first option. The second option would be WDM/KS. The third option
would be WASAPI.

MME interfaces usually works, but they don't perform as well as other interfaces.

If you still can't start audio, the ASIO4ALL driver should work: http://www.asio4all.com/

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*   If everything else fails, this method is quite foolproof:                         *
*                                                                                     *
*   "bin\jack_local\jackd.exe" -R -S -d portaudio -d "ASIO::ASIO4ALL v2" *
***************************************************************************************





HOW TO connect Radium to other ASIO programs (via Jack)
=======================================================

This is instructions on how to setup the JackRouter ASIO driver.

The JackRouter ASIO driver makes it possible to for instance
send the output of Cubase into Radium, or to send some sound into
Cakewalk.

These instructions assumes that you have installed jack globally.
You can download jack here: http://www.jackaudio.org


1. Download the ASIO jack driver (JackRouter.dll) here:

      https://github.com/jackaudio/jack-router/tree/main/binaries/win64

   and copy it to "C:" (for instance, see #3).
   
2. Start an administrator command prompt by right-clicking

      Start -> All Programs -> Accessories -> Command Prompt

    and select "Run as Administrator".

3. In the administrator command prompt, execute the following command:

    regsvr32 “C:\JackRouter.dll”
  
4. Start Jack.


You should now have an ASIO driver that sends and receives audio to and from jack.
In Radium, you can connect to programs using this ASIO driver by:

  1. Create "Jack Stereo In" and/or "Jack Stereo Out" audio objects in the Mixer
  2. Route sound the way you want it in the "Connections" window in the qjackctl program.

