I hacked Jeskola Buzz for weird time signatures

download:

http://www.zshare.ne...12674020557bcc/

screen:

http://www.zshare.ne...1267415665e59f/

weird thing is I can make the Step: drop-down box so you can type in a number, but it won't accept that number. So for now I made it so you can select 1, 2, and a bunch of prime numbers to scroll down in increments of

I get an "error : file not found" from Zshare :(

http://www.zshare.net/download/991275010533f249/

try this

Nice work, though custom time signatures (i.e. step size) has been available in the new sequence editor since v.1203 (March 2010) ....

really? I tried Newbuzz before trying this and I couldn't get it to do that. What do you do exactly?

On the new sequence editor move the cursor to the time you want to change the step size and press CTRL-T, a dialogue box will then appear (which I've highlighted in rather garish colours):

So in this sequence I've started using the normal step size of 16, then at row 64 I've switched it to a rather off kilter step size of 23. You can have as many step size changes as you want, and at any size.

Woah what! I really need to update my copy of Buzz.

Speaking of updating Buzz, I can't seem to go past build 1436 for some reason. Says buzz.exe is in use & can't be deleted whenever I try to update.

Err no idea why that would be - not had any issues updating. Maybe the process remained resident when you closed it one time, a simple restart and then update maybe? You don't have to delete buzz every time you update BTW - you can just run the install over the top of the old one and it'll update everyfink.

well newbuzz is kind of slow with the amount of tracks I'm using so it's still a little useful. Also newbuzz doesn't work on Linux but oldbuzz does almost perfectly somehow

  On 2/23/2012 at 3:54 AM, Ragnar said:

newbuzz doesn't work on Linux but oldbuzz does almost perfectly somehow

I believe builds post around v.1150 use WPF for graphics to offload the processing demands of the CPU onto the GPU. I don't think Wine supports WPF stuff though ...

wow newbuzz lets me do exactly what I wanted to. Guess I was a little confused about polymeters and how they'd look in a tracker

  On 2/23/2012 at 10:39 PM, Ragnar said:

wow newbuzz lets me do exactly what I wanted to. Guess I was a little confused about polymeters and how they'd look in a tracker

I always use a high BPM or TPB setting, so polymeter/odd time signatures are easier to do when using the default step setting in old buzz. I just multiply the number of beats per bar by 16 and that's my base pattern length. Now, if only one could change the pattern/sequence editor row highlights to something other than every 4 units..

  On 2/23/2012 at 11:17 PM, modey said:

I always use a high BPM or TPB setting, so polymeter/odd time signatures are easier to do when using the default step setting in old buzz. I just multiply the number of beats per bar by 16 and that's my base pattern length. Now, if only one could change the pattern/sequence editor row highlights to something other than every 4 units..

In Pattern XP (now the default editor in Pattern Editor) you can increase the Rows per Beat setting, which is essentially the resolution of the pattern. The default (and old Buzz) setting is 4 Rows Per Beat, but you can increase this up to 96 Rows Per Beat which is (counts on fingers) 24 times the resolution than before. In your case you'd set it to 64 rows per beat (4 * 16) to get the 16 times resolution without having to increase the TPB.

Interesting. I'll have to give it a try. As long as they haven't messed with the tracker feel too much!

http://www.findthatfile.com/search-5711114-hZIP/winrar-winzip-download-btdsys_customseqsteps_10.zip.htm

hey um I didn't know this existed

Aye but that was back in 2004 when it was necessary to have such peer hacks, nowadays it's native in the sequence editor to have any kind of step size.

EDIT: forgot you were still using old buzz on linux.