Radium 6.4.76 released

[kjetil]

(Note! In the newsletter for Radium 6.5.72, the link to the full announcement unfortunately landed here. Go to https://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radiu ... ?f=6&t=319 to see the full announcment for Radium 6.5.72)

Many bug fixes and some new features.

Most visible feature this time is the possibility to include the sequencer in the bottom of the mixer. This is a convenient feature if you have two screens and want to dedicate one screen for the editor and use the other screen for everything else. Notice the new "S" button:

radium_mixer_6_4_76.png (129.41 KiB) Viewed 17085 times

Another notable feature is latency compensation when recording audio from the sound card, a feature that should have been implemented a long time ago:

radium_system_input_latency_compensation.png (18.62 KiB) Viewed 17085 times

And finally, there is a new GUI to edit keybindings. Select "Edit keybindings" in the Help menu to open:

radium_edit_keybindings.png (117.88 KiB) Viewed 17085 times

Changes 6.3.84 -> 6.4.76:

• MacOS: More fixes for the sequencer graphics not
  always being updated after resizing.
• Windows: Fix incorrect error message sometimes
  popping up about wrong number of bytes written to
  disk.
• Keybindings: Add GUI to edit keybindings. Select
  "Edit keybindings" in the Help menu to open.
• Mac/Editor: Fix mouse pointer sometimes behaving
  weirdly if moving outside the edges while editing.
  (Just turned off window edge-handling for mac.)
• FaustDev: Improve line number margin width in the
  text editor.
• Demo songs: Clean up mixer object positions in the
  Romance song.
• FaustDev: Use fixed-width (mono-sized) font in the
  code editor.
• Audio: Fix inaccurate latency values when the
  sampler player or seqtrack plugin has audio inputs.
  Since audio is not normally sent through these two
  instruments (the input connectors are mainly used
  for recording audio only), we don't usually want
  input latency added to the output latency.
• Sequencer: Show time under mouse cursor in
  statusbar when mouse is in the time area and
  nothing else is currently shown in the statusbar.
• Mixer: Add popup menu for connections.
• Mixer strips: Fix the "Delete plugin ..." option in
  the popup menu.
• Instruments: Add preferences-option to enable
  Sample Seek / MIDI Chase by default when creating a
  new instrument.
• Manual: Update documentation about sample seek and
  MIDI chase. (Tooltip for the "S" button updated
  as well.)
• Instruments: Fix showing current instrument when
  undoing/redoing creating MIDI instrument.
• Mixer strips: Always show the "Set current
  instrument" entry below the "Force as current
  instrument" checkbox in the popup menu.
• Sequencer: Fix graphics not updating immediately
  after undoing stretching seqblock.
• Audio: Add latency compensation when recording from
  input connections in the sequencer and in the
  sampler instrument. Automatically determined by
  default, but it's also possible to set a custom
  value.
• Audio: Compensate for soundcard input/output
  latency when recording from system input.
  Implemented both for recording in the sequencer,
  and for recording in the sampler instrument.
• Jack: Fix connecting audio input and output for
  "System in" and "System out" instruments when there
  are both physical MIDI ports and physical audio
  ports.
• Jack: Show message during startup if connecting
  system input ports failed.
• Jack: Fix auto-connecting Jack ports when there
  both physical MIDI ports and physical audio ports.
• Jack: Fix not always working to set name of Jack
  input ports.
• GUI: Add option to put the sequencer in the bottom
  of the mixer instead of in the lower tabs in
  main window.
• Sequencer: Fix shift-right-clicking multiple
  seqblocks.
• Sequencer: Fix Shift + rightclick to delete
  seqblock. Bug probably introduced in 5.9.99.
• Sequencer: Fix various situations where the
  graphics was not updated.
• API:
  • Renamed: mainMixerIsInWindow->mainMixerInWindow,
    switchMixerIsInWindow->switchMainMixerInWindow,
    instrumentWidgetIsInMixer->instrumentInMixer,
    setInstrumentWidgetInMixer->setInstrumentInMixer,
    switchInstrumentWidgetInMixer->switchInstrumentInMixer.
  • New: sequencerInMixer, setSequencerInMixer,
    switchSequencerInMixer, sequencerInMainTabs,
    configureSequencerWidget, gui_getMixerYSplitter,
    getRecordingLatencyFromSystemInputIsAutomaticallyDetermined,
    setRecordingLatencyFromSystemInputIsAutomaticallyDetermined,
    getCustomRecordingLatencyFromSystemInput,
    setCustomRecordingLatencyFromSystemInput,
    setSeqtrackRecordCompensateLatency,
    getSeqtrackRecordCompensateLatency,
    enableSampleSeekByDefault,
    setEnableSampleSeekByDefault, gui_editor,
    gui_editorLoadFile, gui_editorSetFile,
    gui_editorSave, gui_editorFind,
    gui_editorFindNext,
    gui_editorAddTextChangedCallback
  • writeToFile: Change return type from int to bool.
    (Returns false if writing failed.)

[bekki]

Hey so im trying out the demo and got an error code.
Im just posting it in any case its usefull for u.

It happens when i try to move a note.
or try to input a stretched note. not for the standard 16th note u input first.


2020-09-26 01:16:44:
error: radium-api
Last API entry: noteIsSelected.
Error: Note with id 1841840 in track #-1 in block #-1 note found

error-code: (define note-is-selected (ra:note-is-selected noteid))

error-file/line: #f[673]

error-history:

"(define note-is-selected (ra:note-is-selected noteid))"

4:
"(move-pianonote pianonotenum move-type (if (ra:control-pressed) Value (round Value)) Place (pianonote-info :noteid) (pianonote-info :tracknum))"
;./scheme/mouse.scm[2794]
14:
"(- 13 0)"

15:
"(- 12 0)"

16:
"(- 11 0)"

17:
"(- 10 0)"

18:
"(- 8493/1057 0)"

19:
"(- 7 0)"

20:
"(- 4 0)"

21:
"(- 0 0)"

22:
"(- 4 0)"

23:
"(- 0 0)"

24:
"(- 4 0)"

25:
"(- 0 0)"

29:
"try-it"

35:
"{table}-9"

36:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :height height)"

37:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :width width)"

38:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y2 y2)"

39:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :x2 x2)"

40:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y1 y1)"

41:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :x1 x1)"

42:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y y)"

43:
"(hash-table-set! {table}-9 x)"

44:
"(let* (({table}-9 (make-hash-table 8 (cons eq? box-struct-mapper))) ({keys}-13 '(x y x1 y1 x2 y2 width height))) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 x) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y y) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :x1 x1) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y1 y1) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :x2 x2) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :y2 y2) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :width width) (hash-table-set! {table}-9 :height height) {table}-9)"

53:
"(/ (apply + numbers) (length numbers))"
;scheme/semi-primitives.scm[51]
54:
"(/ (apply + numbers) (length numbers))"
;scheme/semi-primitives.scm[51]
55:
"(make-box (average $x1 $x2) :y (average $y1 $y2) :x1 $x1 :y1 $y1 :x2 $x2 :y2 $y2 :width (- $x2 $x1) :height (- $y2 $y1))"
;./scheme/common2.scm[872]

(tracknum . 1) (noteid . "1841840") (place . same-place) (value . 58) (move-type . move-all) (pianonotenum . 0) (move-start . #f) (move-end . #f) ...

[kjetil]

Hi,

Thank you for reporting. I can't reproduce this exact error message, but I can create a similar error message if moving a note while playing song.

Were you moving notes in the pianoroll when this happened?

Was the program playing when this happened? And if playing, did it happen when the program changed to a different block while you were moving a note?

[kjetil]

Now I got the same error message when moving a pianonote in one block while the program switched to another block while playing song.

It's actually not supported to edit in a different block than the one that is currently playing. Of course, there shouldn't be a cryptic error message, so that must be fixed, but would it be important to be able to edit in a different block than what is currently playing?

[bekki]

Not really i guess. But its nice knowing why it happend. IS there anyway u can copy block contents between different blocks. So u dont have to set instruments to a specific channel everytime u start a new block.

[kjetil]

Yes, of course. In the "ClipBoard" menu: Shift + Ctrl + C / Shift + Ctrl + V

[bekki]

Cool thanks. Any tips for cutting up breaks in radium or would u recommend using another program for that. I really like the way u can hear notes when u go over them without starting play. Makes it easy to write chords.

[kjetil]

Yes, you might want to use another program for that. Radium doesn't have a sound editor built-in. You can use the "Start position" effect, in the sampler player instrument, in create ways, but it's probably more efficient to use a tool made for that sort of thing.

[kjetil]

Radium 6.4.77 released. This is an emergency release to fix a rare crash when deleting a sampler instrument that has GUI open, and to fix importing MIDI files. Note that some MIDI files are still not imported properly when using Windows. This will hopefully be fixed in a later release. (sorry bekki, I forgot to fix the bug you reported above before releasing. I'm putting it into my TODO list now.)

Changelog 6.4.76 -> 6.4.77:
* Autobackup: Don't create autobackup for demo songs.
* Instruments: Fix rare crash (only seen on osx) when
deleting a Sampler instrument that has a GUI open.
* Internal: Various general checks and assertions to
avoid crashes when deleting an audio instrument.
* MIDI: Fix import MIDI file. Note that some MIDI
files are still not loaded when using Windows. This
will hopefully be fixed in the next release.

[kjetil]

For windows users: Beware that WASAPI mode is currently broken in the version of Portaudio that is included with Radium if you select "Playback only" in qjackctl. I will update portaudio when this has been fixed.