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- m2BUZZ v3.62 (by vII muehle@theory.phy.tu-dresden.de)
- ------------
-
- Introduction/Purpose:
- ---------------------
- This program converts 4/6/8 channel MOD, XM and MIDI-files to BUZZ-songs
- (BMX- or BMW-files), allows to merge 2 BUZZ songs into one or to
- transform a BUZZ song with several options including transposing/cloning
- of generators and wave tuning/ripping.
-
- There's a lot you can do with the program, so you should read the
- helpfile to learn more about it. As quickstart tutorial:
- -launch m2bvc.exe
- -press the "Help" button ;)
-
- Disclaimer:
- -----------
- I don't take any responsibilities for anything resulting from use of
- this code/program to any person, data, computer or foreign race in
- a foreign galaxy.
-
- THIS CODE IS NOT CAREFULLY TESTED!!! at least only by myself and few
- example files. I did my best, but this may not be sufficient.
-
- The resulting files sometimes crash BUZZ, but I tried to reduce this.
- Often incorrect input files are responsible for wrong output.
-
-
- News:
- -----
- -look into m2buzz.rev and the help file
-
- Installation:
- -------------
- -unrar all files into one directory (with subdirectories!!),
- that's done automatically by the "installer"
- (probably already is done, when you read this)
- -start the GUI (m2bvc), or better add a link to your desktop or
- startmenu or anythere you like (the working directory has to be
- where you installed the files to!)
- -now choose your MOD or XM files on the first tab and push "Convert"
- -for MIDI files have a look at the MIDI tab
- -before you start with song merging look into the help file
- -you may want to insert your XI-directory in the BUZZ wavetable
- section, but that's not necessary
- -for more about the option settings and the program push the
- "Help"-Button
-
- Uninstallation:
- ---------------
- -simply remove the program-directory, and maybe the XI-directory
- -no registry settings are used, no ini-file stays in the Windows-directory
-
- Comments: -I've done most of the coding and testing with the DOS version,
- if something doesn't work with the GUI, try the DOS version.
- Because the DOS programs also use the ini-File of the GUI you
- can set the options with the GUI and save them, then simply type
- m2buzz inputfile [outputfile]
- in a DOS shell.
- -for version v2.1: I concentrated on the new "Make BMX+waves"
- option, maybe this introduced some new errors to the "Make BMW"
- option
- -If you set logging to on you can save all output of the DOS
- version into a logfile by redirecting it:
- m2buzz [inputfile] [outputfile] >logfile
- You even get some info for S3M,XI,BMX and BMW input files,
- but I can't imagine what you want to do with it ;)
-
- In either case you'll find the output file (if you gave no name it's
- m2buzz.bmx or m2buzz.bmw). Now you should be able to play the song.
- Listen...and be impressed (or look into the "Bugs/Missing Features"
- part of the help file, to understand, what's going wrong).
-
-
- That's all. The program originally was meant to get MIDI-input via
- Fasttracker II, saving it as a 32 patterns 8-channel modul, converting it
- to buzz and copy/paste it into other songs. That's rather complicated,
- but did kind of work.
- Now it has a bit evolved... I hope this is a nice toy while waiting
- for BUZZ 2 ;)
-
- Big thanks to Oskari Tammelin for BUZZ. Never has tracking been that lot
- of fun. Let's grow BUZZ. The BUZZ player code+dll is also by him.
- Thank David Lai for his source code and Stefano Maini for Easyxmid,
- giving me a very fast way of doing what I wanted (although now almost
- everything is replaced by my own). The intern midi code is almost
- unchanged based on the midilib by Tim Thompson, very fine package.
- I couldn't get the propertysheet page to work, so I used a tabbed
- dialog (c) Edward McCreary (1994) with some major adaptions to Windows95.
- I don't intend to take the troubles of IT conversion on me, so I'm
- thankful to Andy Voss that somebody already has done this.
- The MOD formats player uses the BASS-library (c) Ian Luck.
-
- Further I wish to thank
- -Rasmus Schultz for his very constructive help
- -Gabriel Winter for helping to fix the NT and other bugs
- -Nick Alevridis and Fabio Napodano for help and suggestions
- and last but not least MAZ for hints,discussions and his general work.
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