Buzz

What works

Everything.

What does not

Tips and Tricks Dialog... though I'm not sure that ever worked.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Midi

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Works better than on windows

Running Jeskola Buzz Tracker on Linux
The ultimate insult is when MS upgrades its OS and alienates old software that its users rely on. Buzz is a one in a million program that's too weird to remake and too good to let die. It was made for Windows 98, which appears to be most of it's problem. It's like having the greatest race car driver and the slowest race car with a worthless pit crew.

How to make it work: (thanks to flavor8.com)

• Get Buzz and its machines as well as install instructions here
  http://flavor8.com/index.php/2005/10/15/buzz-tracker-on-linux/

• Download buzz base installer. Note that this is one of the only binaries which actually work. Updated versions may have problems.
• Run: wine buzz_base_install.exe
• cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Buzz
• wine buzz.exe

EXTRA: Here you will also find a tar.bz2 containing most all the machines - samplers, synths, reverbs, choruses.  Download it here. and then manually copy the gears folder to the ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Buzz folder (again thanks to Flavor8.com)

It's advisable to to save early and safe often. Occasionally adding a machine to your song will crash Buzz. Note this has always been the case and is not due to Wine or Linux. Please leave a bug report here if you find a machine which does so.

Here & here are sample loops which Flavor8 has made to demonstrate how everything fits together. Mix out some of the channels to get a feel for how you could use this live.

Note that Buzz does support direct HD audio output as well, in MS PCM Wav of coarse.