About Radium

Radium is a music editor with a new type of interface.

Compared to the normal sequencer interface editing is quicker and more musical data fits on the screen .



and . Compared to trackers, note positions and effects are edited graphically , which should be quicker, provide more vertical space and give a better musically overview . (Everything can also be edited by text, like in a normal tracker)



, which should be quicker, provide and give a . Radium can also be used as a normal multitracker to mix and record 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

Mac OS X

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, VST, and VST3 plugins

(More than 100 LADSPA plugins are included)

(More than 100 LADSPA plugins are included) Several built-in effects and instruments

(virtual instruments, multiband compressor, modulators, etc.)

(virtual instruments, multiband compressor, modulators, etc.) Pure Data embedded.

(Linux only for now)

(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 applied to all parts of the audio graph

Multicore support

Unlimited undo/redo

Open source with a straightforward and easy to use build system

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. Today, Radium is probably the worlds largest and most advanced tracker-like music editor.

Quick start

Load a demo song from the File menu. Play by pressing right alt + space. Stop by pressing space alone. Add a new note by pressing a key. Change octave with F1 and F2.

(Or record from MIDI input)

Page was last updated: 2020-09-02