Cathodemer

Had the software for many years now. Ever since I got it, it has been very buggy. It crashes regularly, the user interface is sluggish. When you move the controls your mouse moves quite a lot farther to make the control move a little bit, very janky. Very bad user interface overall. It runs really slow and jumpy even on modern Zen 3 and newer systems with high end GPUs, it just stutters and consumes tonnes of resources and doesn't work well at all then usually crashes randomly. The developer rarely ever puts out updates and has basically abandoned the program. Today I was talking with Qwen AI about it and Qwen offered to help me write a video synth. It took 2 hours and we wrote a video synth that has all of the features of the main synthesizer in Cathodemer so far, but with a much better UI in python and PySide6 + OpenGL. It runs at any resolution with slick graphics and speed, no slowdowns at all, and it only uses 5% of my GPU, and almost none of my CPU. I am going to implement some of the other features Cathodemer has, and a tonne of post processing shaders, OBS Studio integration etc. So I basically replaced Cathodemer with a better solution using AI to code it in a few hours time, which is what I'd recommend others do as well rather than wasting money on this abandonware. Personally, I'm just going to keep mucking around in python with AI as that route has become more fruitful. I don't have the Arabesque, MIDI, audio support or anything like that, but Qwen will probably have that written by tomorrow afternoon at this rate. I welcome our AI overlords.

I love this so much. The only complaint is that it runs terribly on my Macbook but smooth on the PC. I would love an update or even a Cathodemer 2

if the hours didnt hint at how much i love this app then idk what else will, my favorite app byfar until i get a real glitch machine cathodemer i love you