2ndP MGroove v1.0    Oct 26 2001
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2ndProcess' Groove Aid Machine for Buzz (-> www.jeskola.com)

WELCOME TO THE NEW GROOVE DIMENSION....

Hi there, welcome to my second machine! It's actually become better than
I expected... (of course there's still room for improvement...)!

With this machine, the time till someone makes a new funky Buzz-Plugin-host
may pass a little less painful :) ...cause now we have a shuffle-_slider_!

You can get 1000's of variations of one rhyhtm just by tweaking
MGroove's sliders, leaving the other patterns and sliders of your
song alone.

You can EASILY add shuffle/swing to a song without worrying about your song
tempo changing... you can even write a pattern for MGroove with the _shuffle_
changing!

As you see, there is no need for external groove calculators anymore...
You won't need echot timers as well as the Info dialog shows the length
of 1 tick in milliseconds!

No need to edit Master patterns by hand to achieve shuffle fx...
but you still can record the shuffle values produced by MGroove
to a Master pattern!

Upwards compability SHOULD be given as long as "Master" is always
called "Master"... which is not likely to ever change I think.


installation
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Put MGroove.dll into the Gear\Generators subfolder of your Buzz folder.
Update index.txt with this line:

	MGroove,2ndP MGroove

parameter description
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BPM          The BPM value for your song.

TPB           -  TPB  -     -    -    -

BPM Inertia  0.0001 to 1. 1 means no inertia, ie changes to the
             BPM slider take effect immediately; 0.0001 means it
             will take LONG until the new value is reached.
             The inertia algorithm is DAMN BAD, I admit... :( but it works :)!

Shuffle      0 to 16 ticks. how many ticks to wait between shuffle steps.
Length       0 means shuffle is off; high values might not be practical...
             try 1 or 2.

Shuffle      0 to 75% - try 25%, 12.5%,.... 

Sync         In most songs you will have just 1 "1" trigger at the beginning
             of the song, which syncs the shuffle count & phase to your
             song. "0" resets only the phase; Be aware that this might
             change the pattern length (in time), which might be what
             you want...

NOTES
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You can use MGroove to record patterns for the Master instead of using
it directly. You can then remove it and use the patterns for tempo and
groove control.

If you don't want to shuffle the whole song, either change the shuffling
throughout the song :) or use Hoester's GrooveBox... which is better if
you want to shuffle just some tracks playing together with non-shuffled.
Interesting effects can be achieved by using both together! 8p

Buzz machines behave differently when tempo is shuffled. E.g. for Ninja
Delay, when you set a tick-wise delay while shuffle is = 0, you can
then move the shuffle slider without the echo time changing. MTrks
has two modes for looping samples, one is synchronized and the other one
not.

The inertia feature is nice if you want to slow down/speed up a section
that is repeated via 2ndPLoopJumpHACK.

Have fun and a look at the demo bmx.


CONTACT/LEGAL INFORMATION
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This small bunch of data is FREEWARE. Redistribute, but don't change
anything please.

If my software should cause any harm, directly or indirectly, I am NOT
RESPONSIBLE. I can't be. Use this at your risk, though I promise you
there is none :)

I can be reached via e-mail: malteschreiber@hotmail.com