Radium – The Music Editor

Summary

About Radium Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface. Compared to the piano roll interface, editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen. (Radium has a piano roll as well.) Compared to the tracker interface, note positions and effects can be edited graphically. Graphical editing provides more vertical space and gives a better visualization of musical data. (Everything can also be edited by text, like in a normal tracker, combining the best of two worlds.) Radium is also a Digitial Audio Workstation (DAWg), which can be used to record, edit, and mix audio. However, despite its unusual appearance, it's a design goal for Radium to be straightforward to use, and easy to learn. It should not be harder to learn Radium than any tracker or most MIDI sequencers. Users accustomed to trackers might use more time adjusting to the interface. History The development of Radium started in 1999 based on ideas developed 1997-1999 while extending the Octamed tracker on the Amiga. The first public version of Radium was released in 2000. Since then, Radium has been ported to Linux, Windows, and Mac. Today, Radium is probably the worlds largest and most advanced tracker-like music editor. Some of the features Audio and MIDI multitracker Automate pitch, velocity, effects, and tempo. Granular synthesis Smooth scrolling Optional piano roll Tickless Global swing, and swing-per-track Modular mixer and/or mixer strips MIDI sequencing Hard drive audio recording and playback AU, LADSPA, LV2, VST, and VST3 plugins (More than 100 LADSPA plugins are included) Several built-in effects and instruments (virtual instruments, multiband compressor, modulators, etc.) Pure Data embedded. (Linux only for now) Includes a Faust audio DSP development environment Frame-accurately synchronize playback to e.g. Ardour, Bitwig, or MASCHINE. Graphical zoom Non-destructive changable Lines Per Beat ("Line Zoom"). Microtonality Scripting in Python or Scheme. Plugin delay compensation applie...