What’s the best resource or path for a new radium user? Anyone have a video series or a text -based tutorial that made all the difference?
All info appreciated!!
Learning from scratch
Re: Learning from scratch
Personally, I felt like radium was way easier once I understood the basics of trackers, there's an awesome short series about protracker that really helped me!
Let's track!
Re: Learning from scratch
So there are no specific tutorials? Wow
So for a complete noob the first weird thing is that the keyboard driven nature of trackers requires that you get use to a bunch of keyboard key conventions. Including the mapping of the keys to note names, ie, the docs while minimal do contain some useful content:
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radiu ... e=notetext
Z is C, S is C#, X is D, and so forth.
Perhaps a keyboard map would be really helpful. A basic tutorial showing entering note data would be good.
ZXCVBNM => CDEFGAB etc
I think a more visual piano roll input method is in here somewhere but I haven't figured out how to use it. Anyways, the piano roll will be much preferable for most people for basic input, and that's one of the ways Radium is friendlier than your basic amiga/dos era trackers. I really don't see how protracker videos (which enters values in hexadecimal) would help you learn Radium which seems to use hexadecimal in some odd places and other places doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yE2qL ... =waspamiga
The use of hexadecimal really seems at odds to the stated design goals of RADIUM.
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radiu ... chancetext
Here at least is some stuff in hexadecimal.
There really does need to be a general manual section introducing Radium, what it is, what trackers are, and how Radium's tracker features work. I take it from reading the existing manual, that writing in English is not easy for the author of the software.
Perhaps the community is large enough to provide at least one or two video tutorials?
There is a very nice quickstart for RENOISE, the format of this would be useful to emulate:
https://files.renoise.com/manual/Renois ... kstart.pdf
So for a complete noob the first weird thing is that the keyboard driven nature of trackers requires that you get use to a bunch of keyboard key conventions. Including the mapping of the keys to note names, ie, the docs while minimal do contain some useful content:
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radiu ... e=notetext
Z is C, S is C#, X is D, and so forth.
Perhaps a keyboard map would be really helpful. A basic tutorial showing entering note data would be good.
ZXCVBNM => CDEFGAB etc
I think a more visual piano roll input method is in here somewhere but I haven't figured out how to use it. Anyways, the piano roll will be much preferable for most people for basic input, and that's one of the ways Radium is friendlier than your basic amiga/dos era trackers. I really don't see how protracker videos (which enters values in hexadecimal) would help you learn Radium which seems to use hexadecimal in some odd places and other places doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1yE2qL ... =waspamiga
The use of hexadecimal really seems at odds to the stated design goals of RADIUM.
https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radiu ... chancetext
Here at least is some stuff in hexadecimal.
There really does need to be a general manual section introducing Radium, what it is, what trackers are, and how Radium's tracker features work. I take it from reading the existing manual, that writing in English is not easy for the author of the software.
Perhaps the community is large enough to provide at least one or two video tutorials?
There is a very nice quickstart for RENOISE, the format of this would be useful to emulate:
https://files.renoise.com/manual/Renois ... kstart.pdf
Re: Learning from scratch
wpostma: Yes, I've found that it's very hard to recommend Radium to people, since there's no meaningful tutorials, I'd be down to make/review anything, but idk how to help, english isn't my first language either, but I can try my best 
Let's track!