Radium 6.5.72 released

[Kjetil Matheussen]

Radium 6.5.72 is released. This is a big release with many bug fixes, some new features, and many minor improvements.

Most work this time has been used improving A/B settings in the mixer. Transitioning from one setting to another is smoother, and some bugs have been fixed. General CPU usage for audio should be lower as well in some situations because of this work.

In addition, it's also possible to select which A/B settings you want to apply:

For windows users, this release contains two significant improvements:
1. Fix that it was impossible to move the mixer window when running in it's own window. This bug was introduced in 6.4.76.
2. Prevent virus killers from scanning Ladspa plugins during program startup. Sometimes this could delay program startup time by many minutes. Startup time has been reduced significantly on Linux (and probably macOS) as well.

Some other notable features are: working modulator connections in .mrec files, mute/bypass/solo works for event connections as well as for audio connections, options to load prev/next vst program, options to load prev/next preset file, popup-menu for mixer connections, and various improvements to latency handling.

Note: Due to partial lockdown, I have not tested the macOS release this time. Please report immediately if it doesn't work.

Changes 6.4.77 -> 6.5.72:

* Windows: Fix borderless mixer window. Bug

  introduced in 6.4.76.

* Mixer: Fix remembering window position.

* Sampler instrument: Add entries to edit keybindings

  to the popup menu of the "R" button.

* Audio: Add entries to the instrument effect popup

  menu for adding keybinding to change effect

* GUI: Increase performance a little bit for effect

  sliders and other things.

* Instrument widget: Fix immediately updating graphics

  of solo and mute buttons when changing solo.

* Mixer: Add "Insert plugin" and "Connetion enabled"

  entries to the connection popup menu.

* Instruments: Remove the "T" (through) button for

  MIDI instruments (served no purpose).

* Audio: Cache ladspa plugin info so that they don't

  have to be loaded during program startup. Only

  info for included ladspa plugins are cached for

  now. This fixes very long startup time on windows

  when realtime virus scanning is enabled, but even

  startup times on Linux (and probably MacOS) is

  notably shorter.

* Audio: Generally improve CPU usage by being more

  aggresive about not mixing audio when the output

  of a sound object is silent.

* Audio: Increase audio level allowed to autosuspend

  a sound object. May lower CPU usage in some

  situations.

* Windows: Remove some unnecessary info from

  crashreporter message.

* Audio: Increase number of frames to fade out/in

  from 1024 to 2048 when changing mute on/off and

  various other things.

* Audio: Don't recalculate latencies on the fly when

  a sound object is muted, auto-suspended, volume set

  to 0, and possibly other situations. Although

  constantly running mimumum latencies uses less

  CPU, doing this can also cause audible artifacts.

  E.g. if a plugin reports a latency of 2048 frames,

  we always compensate for a latency of 2048 frames

  in parallel running sound objects in the audio

  graph, even when the plugin makes no sound.

* Modulators/preset: Fix modulator connections when

  loading .mrec files.

* Mixer: Fix undo when creating new sound object

  from preset file by using keybinding.

* Mixer: Fix assertion window popping up when

  creating new sound object from preset file by

  using keybinding.

* Mixer: Make it configurable which A/B settings to

  apply. Click the button with a settings icon to

  configure. The options are:

  * audio connections

  * event connections

  * volume

  * panning

  * mute/solo/bypass

  * system effects

  * instrument effects

  * instrument states

  * mixer strips configuration

  * remember current instrument

  * modulator connections.

  * system volume

  Only audio connections, event connections, volume,

  panning, "mute solo bypass", and "remember current

  instrument" are enabled by default in new songs.

* Sequencer: Fix wrong editor seqblock positions

  after undoing changing block tempos.

* Mixer: Update connection line gfx immediately

  after changing solo for an instrument.

* GUI: Fix Return and Enter keys working in tables.

  Bug introduced in last release .

* Plugins: When loading song, don't try to set

  illegal program number if program number on disk

  is a negative number or higher than the number of

  programs provded the plugin. Fixes crash in at

  least one AU plugin.

* Audio: Don't send events though (i.e. when "T" is

  enabled), when an instrument is implicitly muted

  and "Implicitly mute MIDI the same way as audio"

  is enabled.

* Audio: Fix updating implicit mute/solo when

  removing a connection.

* MIDI: Add the option "Implicitly mute MIDI the

  same way as audio" to song properties. I.e. when

  soloing, we also mute MIDI in implicitly muted

  instruments. This option is enabled by default for

  new songs, and disabled by default for old songs

  (to make sure they continue to sound the same).

* Audio: Make transition from one A/B setting to

  another much smoother. Now solo, connections, and

  instrument effects are all changed at the same

  time.

* Audio: Fix latency compensation being wrong in

  some (very) rare cases when recording from system

  input. Happened sometimes when there were event

  connections in the audio graph.

* Preferences: Make it clearer what latencies are

  used in the "Latency compensation when recording

  from system input" option.

* MIDI: Compensate for latency when playing notes.

  By default it only compensates for "System out"

  input-latency.

* Preferences: Changed tab order a little bit.

* Preferences: Moved various things from the "Audio"

  tab to the "Instruments" tab.

* Instrument widget: Support right-clicking the

  A/B-buttons and the GUI button.

* Sequencer: Less experimental default granulation

  parameters.

* Mixer: Remember current instrument in a/b.

* Instrument widget: Support right-clicking the

  "Replace" and "Load" buttons to configure

  keybindings.

* FaustDev: Fix missing info from the info window.

* Instrument widgets: Don't display multi-presets

  when asked to load/replace preset.

* Disk: Don't put program into an endless message

  loop when loading an erroneous .rad/.rec/etc.

  file.

* Instrument widget: Add "prev preset" and

  "next preset" buttons to quickly switch to

  previous or next preset in the directory where the

  instrument was loaded from (if loaded from preset

  file). If instrument was not loaded from a preset

  file, select prev/next preset from default or last

  used directory instead.

* Instruments: Save preset filename to disk if

  instrument was loaded from a preset file.

* Audio: Name VST/AU programs and not presets.

  "Program" is the common name, plus that "preset"

  can be confused with radium presets.

* Instruments widget: Remove the program number-

  widget. Incorporate the number into the program

  name-button instead.

* Instruments widget: Add "prev program" and "next

  program" buttons. Assign keybindings by

  right-clicking the buttons.

* Instruments widget: Immediately update autosuspend

  button graphics when changing autosuspending type.

* Audio: Change instruments to not send out events

  (i.e notes, MIDI messages, etc.) when they are

  muted. Same with bypass. Old songs behave as

  before, but this can be changed in the Song

  Properties.

* GUI: Draw an SVG image for the various "reset ab"-

  buttons. Before this, a question mark was drawn

  instead of the curly arrow utf-8 character when

  running on windows.

* Editor: Add option to select current block in the

  popup menu for the padlock-checkbox in the lower

  left corner.

* Sequencer: Remove graphical garbage from the row

  of pixels placed between the seqtrack headers and

  the area to the right of the headers.

* Editor: Fix various error messages popping up when

  switching current block while moving a pianonote.

* API:

 * New: getNumInstrumentPrograms,

   getCurrInstrumentProgram,

   setCurrInstrumentProgram,

   setInstrumentProgramName,

   getInstrumentProgramName, getDirPath,

   getPathWithoutDir, getInstrumentPresetPath,

   getInstrumentPreset, selectInstrumentConfigNum,

   resetInstrumentConfigNum,

   getCurrInstrumentConfigNum,

   instrumentConfigNumIsUsed,

   getMidiInstrumentLatencyType,

   setMidiInstrumentLatencyType,

   getCustomMidiInstrumentLatency,

   setCustomMidiInstrumentLatency,

   includeAudioConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeAudioConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   includeEventConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeEventConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   includeVolumeInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeVolumeInMixerConfig,

   includePanningInMixerConfig,

   setIncludePanningInMixerConfig,

   includeMuteSoloBypassInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeMuteSoloBypassInMixerConfig,

   includeSystemEffectsInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeSystemEffectsInMixerConfig,

   includeInstrumentEffectsInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeInstrumentEffectsInMixerConfig,

   includeInstrumentStatesInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeInstrumentStatesInMixerConfig,

   includeMixerStripsConfigurationInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeMixerStripsConfigurationInMixerConfig,

   includeRememberCurrentInstrumentInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeRememberCurrentInstrumentInMixerConfig,

   includeModulatorConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeModulatorConnectionsInMixerConfig,

   includeSystemVolumeInMixerConfig,

   setIncludeSystemVolumeInMixerConfig,

   instrumentEffectExists, getInstrumentEffectType.

 * Deleted: setInstrumentIsImplicitlyMuted, setInstrumentIsImplicitlySoloed

[Kjetil Matheussen]

Radium 6.5.73 released. Emergency release to fix crash if changing A/B in the mixer while creating a connection. Probably an old bug, so it probably doesn't happen very often, but it's still a crash bug.

Changes 6.4.72 -> 6.5.73:

* Mixer: Don't crash if changing A/B while creating

  a connection.

* API:

  * Fix documentation for getInstrumentEffect and

    getNativeInstrumentEffect.

  * New: getStoredNativeInstrumentEffect.

[Kjetil Matheussen]

Heads up: Several Ladspa plugins outputs audio only in the first
channel in Radium 6.5.72 and 6.5.73. A new version should come up
later today, but until then you can fix this manually by deleting all
".cached_type_info" and ".cached_library_info" files under
bin/ladspa/.

[Kjetil Matheussen]

Radium 6.5.74 released. Emergency release to fix broken mono ladspa plugins.

Changes 6.5.73 -> 6.5.74:
* Audio: Remove some unnecessary audio buffers that
were used when processing Ladspa plugins. Might
decrease CPU usage by using less CPU cache for
audio data. (Note that badly written Ladspa
plugins could misbehave after this change.)
* Audio: Fix audio only in left channel for mono
Ladspa plugins where plugin info was cached to
avoid having to open the plugin during program
startup. Bug introduced in 6.5.72