Radium

This version contains lots of bug fixes and minor features.

Most important bug fix this time is for Jack Transport. There was a
logical error (probably a typo) where Radium tested for equal instead
of not equal. This caused playback very often to be delayed by 1000ms
before starting. The same bug could possibly have messed up
frame-accurate audio synchronization as well. Other fixes for Jack
Transport are included in the release as well.

The most notable new feature is the grid button in the sequencer
header to enable/disable and configure grid in the sequencer. This
button makes it much easier to enable/disable grid, and it also
replaces the Sequencer Grid section in preferences. Right-click the
button to configure grid.

Many colors have been updated lately. If you have created your own
custom color scheme, you might want to increase brightness on the
colors used for borders around current instrument, borders around
current seqblock, and so forth. If you haven't created your own custom
color scheme, you should probably select "Set Default Color #1" from
the Edit menu to update color configuration to the latest version.

Changes 5.9.36 -> 5.9.38:

• Modular mixer: Show statusbar message about
  creating new connections when mouse is hovering
  over lower half of name, or hovering over the
  input/output slot positions.
• Modular mixer: Display mute/solo/bypass/volume in
  statusbar when edited and hovered by mouse.
• Mixer: Improve statusbar text for solo and mute.
• Sequencer: Don't use different background color for
  the current seqtrack header if the current seqtrack
  is for editor blocks.
• Mixer: Improve mixer strip popup menu.
• Help: Improve mixer help somewhat.
• Editor: Pressing shift while editing text
  (fxtext/bpmtext/etc.) prevents cursor from moving
  down.
• Editor: Pressing shift while pressing the DEL key
  prevents cursor from moving down.
• New song: Turn off the high shelf filter for the
  reverb. Don't know when +9dB 4500Hz happened, but
  it seldomly sounds very good.
• New song: Explicitly set connection type for the
  connections.
• Mixer: Fix configuration window not being on top of
  mixer window.
• Sequencer: Add a Grid checkbox to the seqtrack
  header top button bar. Right click this checkbox to
  change grid type.
• Sequencer: Remove the sequencer grid options in the
  preferences since this grid configuration has been
  replaced by the Grid checkbox in the seqtracks
  header.
• Sequencer: Fix status bar text for the dragger.
• Preferences: rename "Play Cursor" to "Play-cursor".
• GUI: Fix placing message windows in the middle of
  the parent window.
• Nag window: Make simpler.
• Internal: Improve scheme backtrace display.
• Editor: Add undo/redo for setting track on/off.
• GUI: Fix popup menus so that when you click, the
  marked entry is selected, no matter whether the
  mouse pointer is above a separator or not.
  Workaround for Qt misbehavior.
• Sequencer: Don't enable the "delete seqblock" entry
  in the popup menu when mouse pointer is not above
  a seqblock.
• Sequencer: Add options "Copy editor track on/off ->
  seqblock track on/off" and "Copy seqblock track
  on/off -> editor track on/off" to the seqblock
  popup menu. Can also be accessed by pressing
  Ctrl + Page Up / Ctrl + Page Down.
• Init: Lower startup time.
• Init: Wait until startup is completely finished
  before closing the progress window.
• VST/AU: Add option to disable the virtual MIDI
  keyboard below native GUIs.
• Import MOD: show pattern number in progress bar
  when sending patterns to radium.
• Import MOD: Only open one progress window.
• Web browser: Use direct method to zoom.
• Mixer: Add options to explicitly change connection
  type for the sliders in the mixer strip paths.
  Either "Plugin", "Send", or "Auto".
• OSX: Show warning during startup if running
  macos 10.14 or newer.
• Init: Show progress window a little bit earlier in
  the process.
• Help: Clarify that Radium never uses Jack Transport
  for timing information.
• Mixer: When adding plugin or send to a strip,
  store the connection type (plugin or send) so that
  the entries don't change role afterwards. For
  instance, the roles could earlier change when
  moving sound objects around in the modular mixer.
• Remove some debug output from prev. commit.
• Mixer: Improve GUI performance a little bit.
• Sequencer/Mixer: Various GUI tweaks.
• Sequencer/Mixer: Make the color for current
  seqtrack/mixer strip much brighter.
• Mixer: Add status bar text when mouse pointer is
  above volume slider, audio meter, volume text,
  peak text, mute button, solo button, and pan
  slider.
• Mixer: Clean up the interface for inserting new
  plugin and new send. (More cleanups needed though.)
• Jack transport: When stopping to play block, don't
  jump back to sequencer start position.
• Menus: Make the dot entries (".") work when
  clicking on them.
• Menus: Make "play song" and so forth only play, not
  stop if already playing. Vice versa for the stop
  entries.
• Menus: Fix wrong command being executed for all
  entries having the same menu text, except the last
  entry.
• Help: Added picture of the instrument effect popup
  menu to the instrument effect popup menu help page.
• Jack transport: Fix various issues with playing,
  stopping, and positioning cursor.
• Help: Added info about Jack Transport to the timing
  documentation.
• GUI: Minor scrollarea/scrollbar update tweak.
• API:
  • New: gui_addVisibilityChangeCallback,
    getAudioConnectionType, setAudioConnectionType,
    showVirtualMidiKeyboardBelowNativeGUIs,
    setShowVirtualMidiKeyboardBelowNativeGUIs,
    copyEditorTrackOnOffToSeqblock,
    copySeqblockTrackOnOffToEditor, setTrackOn,
    sequencerGridEnabled, setSequencerGridEnabled,
    setPaintSequencerGrid.
  • Deleted: getSeqBlockGridType,
    setSeqBlockGridType, getSeqAutomationGridType,
    setSeqAutomationGridType, getSeqTempoGridType,
    setSeqTempoGridType, getSeqLoopGridType,
    setSeqLoopGridType.
  • Add optional argument "connection_type" to
    createAudioConnection.
  • Let changeAudioConnections understand
    ":connection-type" field for connections.

Emergency release. Massive error message
when trying to open the popup menu for the mixer
strip for current instrument.


Changes 5.9.38 -> 5.9.39:

• Mixer strip for current instrument: Fix popup menu.
• Mixer strip for current instrument: Don't change
  current instrument when editing.