Buzztard aims to be a music studio that allows one to compose songs using only a computer with a soundcard. If you’ve used tracker programs like FastTracker, Impulse Tracker, or the original AMIGA SoundTracker, that will give you an idea of how one can sequence music in Buzztard. The Buzztard editor uses a similar concept, where a song consists of a sequence with tracks and in each track one uses patterns with events (musical notes and control changes). In contrast to other Tracker programs, tracks are not simply sample players: a user can make a song using an arrangment of virtual audio plugins that are linked together to create different effects. Each of these machines can be controlled realtime or via patterns in the sequencer.
The buzztard editor will be just one possible application of the framework we are implementing. Tools like a dj mixing application or a live session composer are other things that can be built using our framework.
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trusktr:
Could someone build this on OSX or explain very simply if/how I could do so?
BTW I wanted to ask in the forums, but the capcha image doesn’t load if you try to register and if I try using register option on the right hand side of the site I get a spinning progress indicator of doom. I couldn’t get IRC working either.
Take a look at this for running GTK apps in OSX: http://gtk-osx.sourceforge.net/
That’d be a great topic to start in the forums… I’ve created an account for you.
Please make packages for Fedora!
Those would be nice to have indeed. I am not too good at packaging though. I wonder if you could take the OpenSuSE rpms, rebuild them for fedora and submit them to rpmfusion.org? You could also submit it to the wishlist.