buzz input

doesn't seem to be much info around about playing live (not ableton) into/through buzz.

i have my guitar plugged into my soundcard and i hear it through the pc.

i've loaded the machine called 'WaveIn' but can't see how to get it working

anyone know or know of a tutorial?

i remember it being pretty difficult to get going, at least with my old sblive and kX drivers, have a look here though:

http://buzzmachines.com/reviews.php?type=tutorial

ah think i got it. the channel wasnt set.

now its giving me a repeating louderandlouder loop of distortion

*hits record*

  modey said:

i remember it being pretty difficult to get going, at least with my old sblive and kX drivers, have a look here though:

http://buzzmachines.com/reviews.php?type=tutorial

clicked through a few likely ones but no joy.

i feel like all the pages with lists on that site are missing a next button. even the forum is one page.

i'm looking for 'polac asio' now with no joy.

hhhm posting this for me to look at tomorrow

http://buzzmachines.com/viewreview.php?id=53

people in the comments have the same prob as me. i have no attributes BUT i got 2 channels available

this could be useful...

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please note that in djlaser's indext.txt, the jeskola wavein is associated with the wrong machine :( when you load jeskola wave in device and it has a "set channel" on its pop-up-menu, then its the WRONG one (the one that never worked on my system, I guess its for ASIO or so)!

now i hear it through it the wavein (volume very low to avoid the distortion) BUT i ALSO hear it via the soundcard too. so i hear my effects but i also hear it uneffected too. i can't mute the input as i need it but i don't want to hear it twice.

maybe i'll just get some pedals, i want to get away from the pc anyway

for tomorrow: http://buzzmachines.com/viewreview.php?id=1175

Use polac asio in (that is, if you have asio drivers for your card !), by far the best input machine for buzz. if you're hearing the dry input of your guitar make sure you've muted the 'line in' or 'mic' playback in the Windows volume level control thingy in the system tray.

  mcbpete said:

Use polac asio in (that is, if you have asio drivers for your card !), by far the best input machine for buzz. if you're hearing the dry input of your guitar make sure you've muted the 'line in' or 'mic' playback in the Windows volume level control thingy in the system tray.

so polac asio is a driver for my soundcard OR a dll ineed to install in the jeskola folder?

i can't find the download so i'm guessing its a soundcard thing.

i must be doing something wrong because if i mute the line-in i hear nothing.

ASIO is a driver type (other types on buzz (and music software in general) include DirectX Sound driver and Windows Waveform Audio) that has very low latency (practically inperceivable) meaning basically realtime effect processing for a live input. If you go to preferences click on Polac ASIO (the other ASIO type is buggy). What soundcard have you got BTW, if it's something like an onboard one you're gonna have to download ASIO4ALL to make your card support ASIO input/output

Then when you've selected that you use the generator machine called 'Polac ASIO IN', and if you right click it you can select what channel for it to use.

If you have neither Polac ASIO listed on the preferences dropdown or the ASIO IN generator you can download them here - http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/pvstdocs/main.html

(oh and make sure you've muted Line-In on your Playback 'page' of Windows and not the recording 'page' !)

Yeah, if your soundcard doesn't support ASIO in its drivers, you need to use asio4all, which will put up a fake ASIO frontend for buzz to use. I'm pretty sure I used to use the polac asio machine back when I was hardcore about buzz.

i got asio4all. haven't had chance to try mcbpetes last post yet but sounds tiptop. thanks pete

  mcbpete said:

Then when you've selected that you use the generator machine called 'Polac ASIO IN', and if you right click it you can select what channel for it to use.

 

If you have neither Polac ASIO listed on the preferences dropdown or the ASIO IN generator you can download them here - http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/pvstdocs/main.html

turns out i have polac already. i started following the installation instructions and everything i was meant to copy across was already there.

i just don't see any polac asio in on my right click and i don't see which dll is the correct one from the download.

can you tell me exactly how you see it? i'm guessing it should appear under :

New > Generators > Loader > Buzz (which is where i see the VST loader )

OR

New > Generators > WaveIn

I always thought it was interesting how you could customize you machine menus in buzz. I was never happy with mine though. There was one that was pretty good that I downloaded.

  Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  mcbpete said:

Then when you've selected that you use the generator machine called 'Polac ASIO IN', and if you right click it you can select what channel for it to use.

 

If you have neither Polac ASIO listed on the preferences dropdown or the ASIO IN generator you can download them here - http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/pvstdocs/main.html

 

turns out i have polac already. i started following the installation instructions and everything i was meant to copy across was already there.

 

i just don't see any polac asio in on my right click and i don't see which dll is the correct one from the download.

 

can you tell me exactly how you see it? i'm guessing it should appear under :

 

New > Generators > Loader > Buzz (which is where i see the VST loader )

OR

New > Generators > WaveIn

you might not see it if your index.txt hasn't been updated, check under Generators > Unsorted.. or you can double click on an empty space in the machines view and find it that way.

If you haven't got the ASIO IN machines you can download them here - http://www.xlutop.com/buzz/zip/polac_asio_v1.2.zip

They're usually under New->generators->something or other but actually on my Index.txt they're under New->I/O devices (i use a particulary strange index.txt !!) so it really depends what index you're using. Although on the new builds of Buzz you have the benefit of just typing on a blank area in 'machine view' a few letters of that machine and a list will pop up matching machines with those few letters (when I use it I just type: ASI and it's all right there )

The full name of the machine is - Polac ASIO Stereo In (or course if you're using a mono input use Polac ASIO Mono In)