Buzé 0.5 Documentation

Changes in Buzé from 0.5.1 to 0.5.8

Contributors in alphabetical order: Calvin, Hmaon, Ld0d, Syncat, Zeffii and Zonaj.

Also thanks the Aldrin guys for contributions to zzub and plugins: Bucket Brigade, Jmmcd, Stone1, Paniq, and Tzhau.

The longer changelog

• The core engine (zzub) was almost completely rewritten:
  • New event and MIDI connection types. Feedback loops permitted.
  • Undo/redo works better and covers almost all operations.
  • Supports the PortAudio backend via compiler switches.
  • buzz2zzub supports plugin caching via compiler switches.
  • aliases.txt and blacklist.txt is deprecated and completely replaced with buzz2zzub.ini.
  • New zidl tool for generating language bindings (produces .def, .h and .py-files so far).
  • Includes 16 new Lunar plugins and the native plugins ld fungus, midicc and miditime. miditracker supports more effects from PVST's midivst.
  • Built libsndfile-1.dll with FLAC support and added import/preview for more formats supported by sndfile.
  • The built-in wavetable and file recorder plugins support 16/24/32bit/float formats and continous recording.
  • Fixed problems related to Buzz peer plugins controlling non-Buzz/missing plugins.
  • Detailed BMX load warnings are back.
  • Fixed long-time wavetable bugs in the BMX loader.
  • Updated to latest Buzz headers and hacked basic support for the new pattern editor plugins.
  • Simplified the stream player/preview plugins. Removed the stream tracker plugin.
• Buzé now interfaces zzub via the C interface instead of the internal C++ classes.
• Pattern editor: Editors can be duplicated and linked together, new paste operations, faster redrawing, added '4' and shift+'8' shortcuts.
• Sequencer: Uses theme colors from the machine view. Create pattern from selection.
• Machine view: Smart delete, hide connections, move and align machines with keyboard. When connecting plugins, a new, unfinished menu is shown.
• Wavetable: Added copy/paste, trim, set loop from selection.
• File browser: Load samples w/keyboard.
• New History view shows the undo history.
• New Preferences view replaces the preferences dialog adding GUI for several options previously only configurable via registry.
• Edit patterns w/MIDI input. MIDI velocity is recorded on plugins with a volume-column. Sync play/stop w/external MIDI SPP. MIDI focus simplifies recording. Gear/midi_aliases.txt allows setting MIDI device name aliases.
• Many smaller details: Main toolbars remember their positions. Wine workarounds. Context menu updates. Ctrl+F11 shows/hides all param windows. F3 button behaviour changed. Theme bugfixes. Up/down works in paramviews. Hotkeys for browsing presets. Built-in support for more PVST hacks. Gear\Templates\*.bmx is listed in the index. Hold ctrl to dock windows. Disappearing window fixes.

Anti-changes, stuff that didn't make it

Alas, due to the wide impact of changes, some stuff has not yet been successfully reimplemented:

• "Pattern mode" functionality is gone, replaced with the pattern editor duplication feature.
• Analyzer is disabled.
• Buzz recorder plugins are not well supported.
• Copy/paste conversions to/from 24-bit does not work with all formats.
• Browsing and loading samples from S3M/MOD/XM-files is currently taken out.
• Cannot play single patterns anymore.
• There are at least three known backwards-compatibility problems with BMXes saved in Buzé (of which two have a chance of being fixed):
  • BMXes with peer-machines may not load in Buzz: Buzé does not use nor save the hidden connections between MIF_NO_OUTPUT- machines and the master.
  • Patterns must be sorted alphabetically by their names, or Buzz will load wrong patterns in the sequencer (bug in Buzz).
  • Connections from PVST(i) may produce distorted sound. Disconnect and reconnect the machines in Buzz to re-initialize PVST.

Buzé 0.5