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Posted by Ben Brown on Jan-31-2005 00:53:

Help installing Buzz

I have it installed but the damn thing freezes/closes and give the microsoft error report thing every time I try to start it up. Anyone else having a similar problem?

Posted by Sean Walsh on Jan-31-2005 03:48:

Have you checked on www.buzzmachines.com for help? Haven't had a similar problem myself, though the program is quite buggy =P

Posted by Brady on Jan-31-2005 03:57:

Yeah Buzz is a weird program, even the installation process screwed up for me.

Posted by Rob on Jan-31-2005 11:48:

Never in the history of buzz could I get a version of it to work/load. Right now I'm downloading the Buzzmachines_massivepack_2004.exe. If I can't get it to work, I'll never bother trying again

Posted by wayfinder on Jan-31-2005 12:54:

http://buzzwiki.wipe-records.org/index.php/Crashes

Posted by Rob on Jan-31-2005 18:18:

OMG! It's working! Now I just have to figure out who to load samples and VSTs.

Posted by wayfinder on Feb-01-2005 07:13:

load samples: F9

load VST: use polac VST loader http://www.xlutop.com/buzz

Posted by Rob on Feb-01-2005 11:31:

Re: Help installing Buzz

quote:
Originally posted by Benjamin B
I have it installed but the damn thing freezes/closes and give the microsoft error report thing every time I try to start it up. Anyone else having a similar problem?

Guess what? Today when I started using buzz the same thing happened. It opened but then it crashed giving me the typical microsoft error report. But I figured out how to not make it crash. Do this:

quote:
To force Buzz to run in compatibility mode, you have to create a shortcut to "Buzz.exe" (on the desktop, in the start menu, whereever). Right click the shortcut & select "Properties" (last entry in the context menu). You see a tab "Compatibility". Click the checkbox to activate the compatibilty mode & set it to NT4SP5 (in the dropdown menu).

Worked fine after that

Posted by wayfinder on Feb-01-2005 15:03:

Buzz itself doesn not need compatibility mode, but some old machines do

Also, delete 11-Midi CC Out.dll, it is one of the most common startup crash sources.

Posted by Zombie0915 on Feb-01-2005 19:20:

nasty nasty buzz bugs, how I wish the developers didnt lose their code.

psycle looks promising, so does this aerio(sp?) modular tracker that supposedly also has a piano roll in it. They both use the same machine layout view that buzz uses.

both of them are still infants compared to buzz though, hopefully they will get more powerfull soon.

Posted by Rob on Feb-02-2005 14:49:

Wayfinder, I take it you use Buzz?

Either way, the user interface is too prehestoric. Reminds me of a little program from the mid mid-late 90's called fastracker. If they could get someone to design a user friendly interface for it, it might may just rival the commercial sequencers out there.

Posted by ZxZDeViLZxZ on Feb-02-2005 15:00:

thats becuase its a tracker. thats how alot of earlier production software was. nothing wrong with it just makes for a differnt kind of work flow as oppused to a studio emulation setup.

Posted by Zombie0915 on Feb-02-2005 19:28:

skale tracker and renoise were both designed to be modern versions of fast tracker. Skale seems to be putting more effort into being similar to the tracker, renoise is concentrating more on putting new fancy things in it.

They are both great, renoise probably rivals most sequencers already.

I cant decide which one is better though, skale is unfinished and its easy to tell, but I like the mixer it has alot and it is staying more true to the old ft2 scheme.

Posted by Sean Walsh on Feb-02-2005 21:37:

quote:
Originally posted by Rob
Either way, the user interface is too prehestoric. Reminds me of a little program from the mid mid-late 90's called fastracker. If they could get someone to design a user friendly interface for it, it might may just rival the commercial sequencers out there.

This "pre-historic" interface allows me to get beats done a hundred times faster than in any other sequencer I've tried. Granted, my level of familiarity was nowhere near the same as it is with buzz, but one of the things it's excellent at is getting stuff done fast.

Posted by wayfinder on Feb-03-2005 09:01:

quote:
Originally posted by Rob
Wayfinder, I take it you use Buzz?

Either way, the user interface is too prehestoric. Reminds me of a little program from the mid mid-late 90's called fastracker. If they could get someone to design a user friendly interface for it, it might may just rival the commercial sequencers out there.

I do use Buzz.

The interface is in parts incomplete.. I don't care if it LOOKS like ass, that isn't the deciding factor. But there are some things that could speed up the workflow that will never be implemented. I still prefer the thing vastly over toy stuff like reason with all its tiny knobs where you cant see shit what you're doing. Or cubase, for that matter.