On Mon, 09 Jan, 2006 at 08:20PM -0800, reuben spake thus:
A few months back I posted to this list regarding
running buzz tracker,
which is an excellent piece of windows freeware, on linux. I put
together a quick piece to demonstrate what it does; this isn't
particularly complex musically, but I quite like it. Aside from the amen
loop, which comes in @ approx 1:00, every sound is synthesized by buzz
(the amen is provided by a machine which is dedicated to producing amen
loops, so even that is not from an externally loaded sample.)
Wow! What an ace instrument! Sorry, machine. Amen just can't be
overused.
I like this, but I couldn't help thinking it should build and then
snap into something louder, with more beat and crunchier synths.
As explained previously, unfortunately there will
never be a port of the
software to linux, as the developer lost the source code when his hard
drive crashed(!). There are a huge number of machines (see
buzzmachines.com) written to its API, so it would be highly advantageous
to Linux audio if somebody were to write a client that could use them -
hint, hint.
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