On Sunday 03 August 2003 13:31, Luis Pablo Gasparotto wrote: While Buzz does have tracker functionality, that's only one of a couple hundred modules available for it. Essentially, Buzz tries to be an all in one Jack-like environment, where you can use VST or DirectX instruments, or native Buzz instruments (a few of which are trackers) and route them through an arbitrary number of Buzz, VST or DX effects prior to output to speaker or disk. Trouble is, its author lost the source code years ago and updates come in the form of binary hacks of the executable and more and more module setups. Jack is already more flexible and as it builds more critical mass, may ultimately be more powerful. But the only things Buzz has in common with Soundtracker are the ability to play samples if you want to, and a tracker-like interface for entering notes. Rob

Can anyone point me toward a group of people who use these tools, or instructions on how to really use a tracker? It looked like a fun toy (both Buzz and soundtracker) but I couldn't find much info on how to really use them to construct a song. Sorry for being so remedial. Thanks! Mark

Thanks for the pointer. I'll check it out.

On Monday 04 August 2003 10:41, Michal Seta wrote: The Buzz-Buzz Yahoo group is a great resource for would-be Buzz users, as well as people who like tracker music in general. However, it's like a point of pride to not use samples in your Buzz tune, using instead the various Buzz synthesis modules to generate your sounds, so the culture is a little different than the tracker world at large. Someone was working on a Buzz clone for Linux called GNU Octa-something, can't remember it right now nor can I find it, but it stalled a year and a half ago and I haven't heard anything about it since. What might be really cool would be a Wine/Jack applet that just wrapped Buzz modules ;) I seem to remember a similar wrapper for VST effects but don't know what became of it. Rob

I got buzz working too, surprisngly also this weekend. I don't get the waveOut message, but I sometimes got it in Windows. When you get the message, can you still open the preferences menu in Buzz? If so, try to change the wave output driver to Windows Waveform Audio and if that doesn't work to one of the other possibilities. It works in alsa mode and oss-emulation mode. Oss-emulation seems to give less latency. For easy wine configuration check this out: http://darken.tuxfamily.org/article.php?lang=en&id=1 m