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by nathansnider
Sun Jul 08, 2018 10:57 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Sooooo, is buzz dead again ?
Replies: 35
Views: 19885

Re: Sooooo, is buzz dead again ?

Buzz is still rokin' after all these years. Obviously, development and community activity have both slowed down a lot, but it's far more powerful now than it was back in the heyday when there were a dozen .bmx songs a day being uploaded to scene.de or wherever. A lot of the momentum in the early day...
by nathansnider
Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:54 am
Forum: Users
Topic: VCV Rack
Replies: 13
Views: 10334

Re: VCV Rack

I'd love to try it, but it seems to just be showing a black screen when I open it. According to the docs, this is some kind of OpenGL problem, which is strange because I had an older, pre-bridge version of VCV running on my old laptop with a far less powerful graphics card. I do love me some modular...
by nathansnider
Thu May 24, 2018 1:18 am
Forum: Devs
Topic: Uuuuurrrrrgh!!!
Replies: 23
Views: 19507

Re: Uuuuurrrrrgh!!!

I think the word is "Uuuuurrrrrgh!!!"
by nathansnider
Tue May 22, 2018 12:53 am
Forum: Users
Topic: If you had to cheat on Buzz...
Replies: 28
Views: 19461

Re: If you had to cheat on Buzz...

If I had to cheat on Buzz, it would probably be with NerdSeq . https://www.amazona.de/wp-content/uploads/2030/01/xor-electronics-nerdseq1-e1519301394192.jpg Then I'd just have to stumble upon a few thousand dollars to spend on a Eurorack system, and I'd have a fully functional modular tracker once a...
by nathansnider
Tue May 01, 2018 1:57 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Assigning start/stop controls to MIDI?
Replies: 7
Views: 4153

Re: Assigning start/stop controls to MIDI?

You might be able to get what you're looking for by sending notes to LiveJumpHack. I haven't had occasion to use that machine in years, but it could do loops, and you could get a sort of fake "stop" by sending it to an empty loop with nothing but note-offs. I still mourn the parameter wind...
by nathansnider
Sun Apr 22, 2018 9:35 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: BTDsys stutter; noise and feedback (can you help?)
Replies: 1
Views: 1943

Re: BTDsys stutter; noise and feedback (can you help?)

It's probably a 24-bit sample. Stutter doesn't seem to do well with those. If that's the case, you can try converting it to 16 bits and see if that fixes the problem.
by nathansnider
Wed Mar 07, 2018 10:24 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Google's Song Maker
Replies: 3
Views: 2875

Re: Google's Song Maker

Fun!

A little Reich-ian minimalist thing:

https://goo.gl/HqC3mz
by nathansnider
Fri Jan 05, 2018 12:19 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Best way to add groove/swing to your tracks?
Replies: 11
Views: 8024

Re: Best way to add groove/swing to your tracks?

To be clear, the PVST shuffle doesn't affect the Buzz global tempo at all; it's only "global" in the sense that it affects all tracks in that particular instance of PVST. So it shouldn't cause any tempo-dependent machines to glitch out. Jeskola Groove 1, which shuffles the Buzz global temp...
by nathansnider
Thu Jan 04, 2018 9:08 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Best way to add groove/swing to your tracks?
Replies: 11
Views: 8024

Re: Best way to add groove/swing to your tracks?

Polac VST has a shuffle command, and it comes with an Internal MIDI instrument for sending MIDI to other machines. For machines that can't receive MIDI data, you can route the MIDI to Ix Split, and have that control whatever you like. The PVST shuffle is one of the global delay commands, 08 1xyy, wh...
by nathansnider
Sun Nov 12, 2017 5:23 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: missing machines on old BMX's
Replies: 7
Views: 4606

Re: missing machines on old BMX's

It could be that the original was a stereo-wrapped version of the same machine. I had a similar problem with some of my old BMXs and was able to fix it by running Lee Dragon's Mono to Stereo Wrapper on the machines I needed. If you don't want to convert your entire Effects directory, you can just co...
by nathansnider
Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:52 pm
Forum: Music
Topic: Buzz at 20
Replies: 105
Views: 93146

Re: Buzz at 20

I have bmx/bmw files for most of mine, though I'm not sure about all the old machines. I'll put up what I've got later.
by nathansnider
Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:46 am
Forum: Music
Topic: Buzz at 20
Replies: 105
Views: 93146

Re: Buzz at 20

I put my contribution up here . I included a bunch of unfinished snippets as well as a few songs that either were never released or were part of projects that are no longer up on the internet. I guess I should put the finished songs on BuzzTunes too at some point. It was fun to dig through the archi...
by nathansnider
Sun Sep 10, 2017 10:58 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: how do i control tempo via a sidechain in Buzz
Replies: 1
Views: 2442

Re: how do i control tempo via a sidechain in Buzz

PeerEnv controlling Master BPM seems to work fine for me. Does the attached example work for you?
by nathansnider
Sun Jul 30, 2017 7:19 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Sound card reset?
Replies: 4
Views: 3572

Re: Sound card reset?

I just ran into this problem recently, and found the answer here:

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2138&view=next#p11245

Basically, you have to copy the ASIO driver registry entry from HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\asio into the Polac ASIO entry under the Buzz registry.
by nathansnider
Mon Jul 17, 2017 5:28 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Sequencer, "channel" size and colorization
Replies: 2
Views: 2404

Re: Sequencer, "channel" size and colorization

I don't have any solutions to your problem in particular, but when a word is excluded from the forum search for being too common, you can just use your search engine of choice to search the site, e.g.: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Aforums.jeskola.net+sequencer https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site...
by nathansnider
Sun Jun 04, 2017 6:38 am
Forum: Users
Topic: A working wavetable recorder?
Replies: 10
Views: 7247

Re: A working wavetable recorder?

There are at least two different issues here. One of them is particular to Whitenoise Recorder, and another, which primarily affects the Cyanphase and CnG recorders, seems to have something to do with the Buzz wavetable GUI. I use Whitenoise Recorder often for wavetable feedback (simultaneously reco...
by nathansnider
Mon Nov 14, 2016 10:59 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Request new Buzz Tools, Effects, Generators, Features
Replies: 28
Views: 27186

Re: Request new Buzz Tools, Effects, Generators, Features

bigyo wrote:There is linear phase version of my ParamEQ, it uses FFT based convolution, so you can get similar results.
You'll find it here: http://bigyo.untergrund.net/buzz/bigyo_buzzmachines.zip
Oh, neat, thanks! I'll check that out!
by nathansnider
Mon Nov 14, 2016 3:51 am
Forum: Users
Topic: Request new Buzz Tools, Effects, Generators, Features
Replies: 28
Views: 27186

Binomial Smoothing

One pretty simple effect I've always wanted is a binomial smoothing filter, as described here . For the first pass (smoothing parameter = 1), you just average the last two samples of the input. For the second pass, you average the last two samples of the first pass, and so on: Out(1,t) = (In(t) + In...
by nathansnider
Thu Nov 05, 2015 5:51 pm
Forum: Devs
Topic: Getting started making machines.
Replies: 16
Views: 17791

Re: Getting started making machines.

There is also an introductory DSP class on Coursera right now, if you're looking for a structured format to learn the basics. It uses Python, but the principles are the same no matter what language you're using.
by nathansnider
Fri May 22, 2015 6:01 pm
Forum: Users
Topic: Using Buzz to control a modular synth
Replies: 3
Views: 2899

Re: Using Buzz to control a modular synth

Way back when , Nikmis apparently got buzz to work with the Silent Way VSTs, which is probably the way to go. I don't know of any machines that would produce the signals you'd need natively in Buzz, but I'm sure there's some hack you could do, maybe using peer machines to control a Cheapo DC or the...