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Haven't posted here much but I was wondering if anyone uses Buzzmachines? I used to use it a good bit but always found it to get a bit jittery with larger more complex tunes.

Now that I've got a new high spec laptop... been messing around with Audiomulch. Love the modular nature of the program but the lack of a decent piano roll is a pain in the ass.

Basically I was wondering if there are any other decent standalone programs like this?

IDM producers were pointing me in that direction a few years ago but i never gave it a try.

Yeh I've seen Buzz used for such things in the past I don't think that this particularly means it should be consigned soley to that genre.

Main problem I have with is the fact that its a tracker...

Blah.

beezle wrote:Now that I've got a new high spec laptop... been messing around with Audiomulch. Love the modular nature of the program but the lack of a decent piano roll is a pain in the ass.

Basically I was wondering if there are any other decent standalone programs like this?

http://www.energy-xt.com/

Basically.

V2 is working in a slightly different direction from V1.4 and still hasn't completely overtaken it yet, so it might be worth giving each of them a try. The one license covers both anyway...

beezle wrote:Basically I was wondering if there are any other decent standalone programs like this?

Renoise is what you're looking for. Not free as Buzz but not expensive at all and so much worth it.

http://www.renoise.com/

energyXT is the way to go if u want piano roll in buzz but there are alternatives.. you can enslave FL studio through the FL VSTs or dig the buzzchurch.com forums

hey cheers for the response fellas, reckon I'll look into this EnergyXT thing. Think I had a demo a year or two ago but it expired before I got fully into it.

Probably be worth buying.

Fruity as a VST sounds interesting. Haven't even attempted to do that though I know its possible.

Ive been using buzz for about 4 years.

this sounds kool

what is it?

EDIT: does this explian it correctly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz

djake wrote:EDIT: does this explian it correctly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeskola_Buzz

Fairly correctly. I think Buzzmachines is one of the Buzzclones that the wiki article talks about at the end. Been ages since I used Buzz.

Buzz is a modular, tracker-based sequencer. Think of it as a cross between Reaktor, Renoise and Audiomulch. The IDM kids love it, because making fucked up mental shit on it comes naturally. Don't expect it to chop up a break easily or to make anything easy to mix on it, but for making 'experimental' (ugh) stuff on - glitch, techno, ambient, noise, etc, it's a helluvalot of fun.

http://psycle.pastnotecut.org

psycle tracker, it's similar to buzz tracker in many ways, good vst support and unlike buzz, it has only one global tracking window for all machines. free.

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renoise isnt really like buzz. its a tracker, thats about it though. buzz has this modular way of working that is completely different from renoise. still a great program though

Misk wrote:@daft tnuc:

renoise isnt really like buzz. its a tracker, thats about it though. buzz has this modular way of working that is completely different from renoise. still a great program though

Yep... I really have to learn to read posts entirely instead of picking the words that grab my attention. I kinda missed the modular thing...

@beezle: try Renoise anyway mate

i used buzz for a long time and loved it, once you get used to it its very fast way of making good music.
i found i got great mixdowns on it too with less effort than cubase

however

upon bouncing out some stems to re-import to cubase, ive learned buzz is NOT IN SYNC and the tempos are often out by tenths to hundreds of seconds

its also very unstabe as its contributer based, but years ago the source code was lost and some errors occurred which were unable to be recitified fast due to the code being gone

that being said its very handy and i still refer to it sometimes, its AWEOSME for freeware