Microtuning Buzz

Hi, first off, sorry about the duplicated posts.

I've just figured out a few neat tricks to Microtune a program called Buzz.
In case someone has never heard of it, it's availabe for free from
http://www.buzz2.com/. It's a combination of a realtime tracker software
(sequencer+sampler) and a software synthesiszer. It's uses plugins called
"machines", which people can write, and most of the time release for free.
I've found that a couple of these machines allow one to adjust the pitch of
individual notes. Two plugins called M3 and M4 are dual oscillator
softsynths, allowing you to edit the detune of the second oscillator in a
range of -100 to +100 cents. By turning off the first oscillator, and only
using the second, you can retune individual notes in the sequence. There are
other Buzz machines that allow you to detune in percentages of -100% to 100%
of a semitone. It takes a little getting used to, but it's not hard. Buzz
machines are generally 12 eq, but since you can load samples, you can adjust
the sampling rate of individual samples, and create scales this way. Not the
best solution, but it's free, the output is high quality and fairly easy to
manipulate. There are numerous effects, most of which are high quality. Only
problem is it's only for Windows 9x/direct (I've heard rumors it works under
Wine now), it has problems on pre MMX machines (limited number of effects and
synths), and even on regular MMX chips it's not to hot. I run it on a PII 266
with 128 megs of RAM and rarely have slowdown, as long as I optimize the
plugin usage a little (on songs with lots of stuff). RAM is ussually not an
issue if the samples aren't to large, as I used to run it on my PII with only
16 megs of RAM. I've been using it for 12 eq songs for awhile (since early
alpha stage actuall), and love it. It takes some work to get alot of body in
your songs, but it's not impossible, it has some of the most innovative
plugins. Just thought I'd share that.

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Christopher Miller
vogonpoet@mailandnews.com
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Hi, first off, sorry about the duplicated posts.

I've just figured out a few neat tricks to Microtune a program called Buzz.
In case someone has never heard of it, it's availabe for free from
http://www.buzz2.com/. It's a combination of a realtime tracker software
(sequencer+sampler) and a software synthesiszer. It's uses plugins called
"machines", which people can write, and most of the time release for free.
I've found that a couple of these machines allow one to adjust the pitch of
individual notes. Two plugins called M3 and M4 are dual oscillator
softsynths, allowing you to edit the detune of the second oscillator in a
range of -100 to +100 cents. By turning off the first oscillator, and only
using the second, you can retune individual notes in the sequence. There are
other Buzz machines that allow you to detune in percentages of -100% to 100%
of a semitone. It takes a little getting used to, but it's not hard. Buzz
machines are generally 12 eq, but since you can load samples, you can adjust
the sampling rate of individual samples, and create scales this way. Not the
best solution, but it's free, the output is high quality and fairly easy to
manipulate. There are numerous effects, most of which are high quality. Only
problem is it's only for Windows 9x/direct (I've heard rumors it works under
Wine now), it has problems on pre MMX machines (limited number of effects and
synths), and even on regular MMX chips it's not to hot. I run it on a PII 266
with 128 megs of RAM and rarely have slowdown, as long as I optimize the
plugin usage a little (on songs with lots of stuff). RAM is ussually not an
issue if the samples aren't to large, as I used to run it on my PII with only
16 megs of RAM. I've been using it for 12 eq songs for awhile (since early
alpha stage actuall), and love it. It takes some work to get alot of body in
your songs, but it's not impossible, it has some of the most innovative
plugins. Just thought I'd share that.

--
Christopher Miller
vogonpoet@mailandnews.com
--