SO I pretty much always ignored Buzz as it was reported as being buggy (especially on XP) and was dead in the water but I always thought it sounded interesting. Now with Buze being here to take it's place, being developed and supported I thought I would give it a go.
So if anybody can link me to a basic manual/getting started guide for Buze I would greatly appreciate it. Or is it so similar to Buzz that I should be using the Buzz guides and manuals? I opened it briefly yesterday and just trying to figure out how to create a patch cable between machines defeated me and I felt so stupid!
Getting started with Buze
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- KVRist
- 271 posts since 6 Oct, 2005
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- KVRian
- 1078 posts since 28 May, 2003 from world
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- Banned
- 527 posts since 28 Sep, 2004
Buze has some extra tricks up it's sleeve that Buzz doesn't...
1.) You can hide sliders from the machine parameter view to keep it from being cluttered up if you only use a couple of the (often times many) sliders.
2.) You can dock machine params at the top of the screen.
3.) You can drag/drop machines into the machine view.
4.) You can 'keyjazz' with a pckeyboard on the machine view.
5.) Other stuff...
It's a pretty good redeaux of buzz that adds some much needed functionality. It still crashes sometimes (mostly from the plugins), but it's got a super awesome error handler that if it senses a crash, it will let you save before it dies. It's not 100% assured you will get this option, but it's up there...around 90-95%.
1.) You can hide sliders from the machine parameter view to keep it from being cluttered up if you only use a couple of the (often times many) sliders.
2.) You can dock machine params at the top of the screen.
3.) You can drag/drop machines into the machine view.
4.) You can 'keyjazz' with a pckeyboard on the machine view.
5.) Other stuff...
It's a pretty good redeaux of buzz that adds some much needed functionality. It still crashes sometimes (mostly from the plugins), but it's got a super awesome error handler that if it senses a crash, it will let you save before it dies. It's not 100% assured you will get this option, but it's up there...around 90-95%.
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- KVRist
- 100 posts since 24 Jul, 2003
On the other hand, the real original buzz is coming back from the grave ... There should be pretty interesting and exciting news in the near future ! In the meantime, this is a good idea to practice buzé so yan can keep ready 
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- KVRist
- 490 posts since 21 Jun, 2002 from Hamburg
Buzé is currently in a major core re-write that'll fix lots of things and improve many areas. Eventho i admire Oskari for finally picking up on older Buzz sources again, i think the future is shining brighter for Buzé due to a wealth of improvements over Buzz itself.
Either way, the Buzzchurch forum is a good place to get connected to fellow Buzzers and Buzérs.
Either way, the Buzzchurch forum is a good place to get connected to fellow Buzzers and Buzérs.
aka rktic. demoscener (Farbrausch, Holon, MFX, Still), sound designer, ux-dude, sth @AudioRealism, human synthesizer—not necessarily in that order.
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- KVRist
- 224 posts since 18 May, 2006
There are tons of tutorials and tips thingies for Buzz, and about 85% of what you learn about Buzz will be applicable to Buzé. So you might want to look there first. BuzzMachines.com is a handy place to check out too. Basically the best source to get machines from, unsurprisingly, but it also has some other nifty tools and tips and things.
Regarding Buzz being redeveloped by its original creator.... hmmmm... I have mixed feelings. He's been very tight-fisted about letting other software developers support Buzz machines, as well as generally reluctant to let others get involved with the project.
I suspect whatever new version of Buzz that he releases will cost money (didn't he start work on a commercial Buzz VSTi or something a while ago, even while refusing to start over on Buzz proper?) That's all fine and good for him, since it's his decision after putting his work into it, but it makes Buzz lose its appeal for me. If I want a commercial tracker, I'll use Renoise.
Regarding Buzz being redeveloped by its original creator.... hmmmm... I have mixed feelings. He's been very tight-fisted about letting other software developers support Buzz machines, as well as generally reluctant to let others get involved with the project.
I suspect whatever new version of Buzz that he releases will cost money (didn't he start work on a commercial Buzz VSTi or something a while ago, even while refusing to start over on Buzz proper?) That's all fine and good for him, since it's his decision after putting his work into it, but it makes Buzz lose its appeal for me. If I want a commercial tracker, I'll use Renoise.
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- KVRer
- 23 posts since 15 Sep, 2009
Ok, there's much info/videos on the buze site: http://batman.no/buzekazakore wrote:So if anybody can link me to a basic manual/getting started guide for Buze I would greatly appreciate it. Or is it so similar to Buzz that I should be using the Buzz guides and manuals? I opened it briefly yesterday and just trying to figure out how to create a patch cable between machines defeated me and I felt so stupid!
Buze made major steps forward: massive plugin/filetype support & lots of more unique features. Also they have great channel #buze on IRC (EFNET) where people are happy to help you.
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