Status
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[edit] Overall state
The buzztard project still is in its early phase. We have released first versions as a technical previews. It can be used as a toy (yes its fun already), but not yet for productive work.
The architecture page describes the structure of the project and the technology used. This also reflects the current state a bit.
[edit] Progress
We have implemented most of the core objects that describe a song. We can load songs from a own XML format. And we can play these songs. Currently there is a commandline application (bt-cmd) for and a graphical editor (bt-edit). The commandline tool can play, convert and encode songs (render to ogg/mp3/wav). The gui tool can load, save, play and record songs as well. With bt-edit one can already browse and edit the song-sequence and patterns. The machine graph works like in buzz. The sequence and the machine view is close to can to what buzz can do. Songs can
Look at the screenshots to get some impressions about the current state.
The next steps are:
- enabling gstreamer to use more buzz-machines (this is a major task)
- wavetable support
- extending the gtk+ based editor application
- implement more in the pattern view
- implement cut/copy/paste
- implement functionality in the wave-view
- using zip archives as songs (xml files + wave samples)
Look at the Roadmap page to see the release schedule.
[edit] CVS Status Reports
The links below lead to regularily updated CVS status reports with commit messages and graphs.
You can also have a look at the ohloh statistics.
[edit] Join the discussion
If you have any comments, ideas and suggestions, besides mailing me, you can join the project mailing lists.
