From the Buzztard Team:

The buzztard team has released version 0.5.0 “crown of thorns” of its buzz-alike music composer. All modules got extensive improvements over the last release from almost a year ago. Give it a try, join hacking and report bugs.

• Split the api into library and instance api. Lots of code and build cleanups.

• Several bug fixes and better compatibility.

• Rewrite of internal pipeline management. One can now play partially connected songs, and add/remove plugins while playing. Buzztard can play notes while editing. More robust saving of songs. Lots of bugfixes and UI improvements.Better user-guide including three small tutorials. Initial support for python and javascript via gobject introspection.

• Lots of improvements in the buzzmachine wrapper. Buzz index support for categories. Make machines live-playable. More resource efficient.

project-page: http://www.buzztard.org
screenshots: http://www.buzztard.org/index.php/Screenshots
downloads : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55124

From the Buzztard team…

“The buzztard team has released version 0.4.0 “the light in your eyes” of its
buzz-alike music composer. All modules got extensive improvements over the last
release from a half year ago. It is usable now and fun to play with. Give it a
try and report bugs.

bml
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Major addition is wavetable support for tracker plugins. Besides that the new
release improves buzzmachine compatibility, performance and has a better build
setup.

bsl
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Major addition is wavetable support. Several bug fixes and build system
cleanups.

buzztard
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As planned, main focus for this release was the wavetable support. Its done -
buzztard can load what gstreamer can decode. The wavetable view has a nice
waveform widget. Related to that buzztard has a new song-format that bundles the
XML together with external files in a zip archive.
Also the UI has seen a lot of improvements. The machine view looks nicer - Marc
drew spiffy machine icons. In addition they now show real volume meters when
playing. All meters are now properly synced.

gst-buzztard
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API renaming to cleanup gst namespace usage. Now includes former gstbml module.

project-page: http://www.buzztard.org
screenshots: http://www.buzztard.org/index.php/Screenshots
downloads : http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=55124

buzztard core developer team
–
http://www.buzztard.org”

Just getting around to posting this. Here’s the latest version of Buze…

From official Buze Site

“Summary of changes: More complete undo/redo. Native event- and MIDI-connections. Feedback loops. Includes ca 20 new Lunar and native/MIDI plugins. Overall enhanced MIDI support. Improved native recorder and streaming plugins. Can load/preview a bunch of new sample formats via sndfile, e.g FLAC, IFF, VOC. Pattern editors can be duplicated and linked. The machine view can move/align machines w/keyboard, added new “Smart delete” function and other context menu options. The wave editor supports copy/paste, and the context menu works.
Contributors to this release were Calvin, Hmaon, Ld0d, Syncat, Zeffii and Zoner.”

Download Now

Official Buze Site

This is a major update. Highlights: Pattern editor was completely rewritten. Supports hidable columns, togglable column editors and drag/drop of pattern selections. The keyjazzing feature has been enhanced and extended to the parameter view, wavetable and file browser. MIDI in is more responsive, a native MIDI tracker is included. Improved support for non-16 bit samples in the wavetable. Special thanks to Zoner for a bunch of fixes and new features!

 Download It

“I’ve just finished setting up a small repository containing up to date packages of Aldrin and Libzzub (as well as source packages) for Debian testing and Ubuntu Feisty.
Those are not official builds but developement snapshots - so use at your own risk

For bug report or information about the software itself, please refer to the developement sites:
http://trac.zeitherrschaft.org/aldrin/
http://trac.zeitherrschaft.org/zzub/wiki/
or have a look on IRC, irc.freenode.net, #aldrin.

How to use:
Add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list to enable the repository and refresh.
deb-src line is for source packages and is not required unless you want to build your own packages, or check what’s inside.

For Debian testing:
deb http://www.pohunek.free.fr/aldrin-nightly-builds/debian/testing/ binary/
deb-src http://www.pohunek.free.fr/aldrin-nightly-builds/debian/testing/ source/

For Ubuntu Feisty:
deb http://www.pohunek.free.fr/aldrin-nightly-builds/ubuntu/feisty/ binary/
deb-src http://www.pohunek.free.fr/aldrin-nightly-builds/ubuntu/feisty/ source/

Or download manually the packages :
http://www.pohunek.free.fr/aldrin-nightly-builds“

 From the Buze Site:

“Again, a release with many small fixes and updates everywhere. CPU-meter works. Added a basic crash dialog. Global and pattern toolbars can be disabled. Smaller, faster and tabbable parameter view sliders. Pattern editor optimizations. Support for rewirelink and machines using jump and mute hacks. Also included are native Psycle and Ladspa plugin wrappers contributed by Polac.”

Get buze-0.4.9.zip.

Finally some more good news; Buze .4.8 has been released. Here’s a short rundown of the updates from the official Buze site:

“A zillion minor fixes and updates in the user interface. Improved context menus, help view, more hotkeys. Workflow improvements contributed by Halfo. Improved support for several newer machines, including ld mixer, Polac Out, Fuzzpilz Inp and Utrk.”

Download it Here

Official Buze Website

 
“Pattern editor updates; double/halve pattern length, optional sticky selections and more hotkeys. Many other additions and adjustments in the file browser, parameter view and main frame. Added sequencer thru and improved compatibility with latest ld mixer.”

Download Buze 0.4.7 Here

Official Buze Site

If you havn’t at least checked out this little buzz-inspired program yet, what are you waiting for? Still in alpha, but shows a lot of promise.

“Newest build of Nakalyne. Fixes in many places (Note Links, LFO, Notes, Sampler, Wavetable, NKS0), added NoteChanger (not finished, but can transpose and remove excess notes per bar), and also ported the KrashBox distortion. LFO’s period parameter now works (0.01 to 30.00 seconds), the Sampler machine can play samples from the Wavetable machine, the range (in digits) can now be specified for the LFO, the TPIF (pattern import/export) functions in the Notes machine has been fixed, and the volume can be set per connection (like Buzz). Also the Notes machine is being partly recoded, so it won’t save your patterns correctly in this version, to save anything use the Export and Import pattern functions (right click on pattern view).”

Download it Here (Alpha 0.0222, Apr 27th, 2007)

Nakalyne Website

From Official Buze Site

“Added import song and copy/paste selected machines in machine view, improved peer compatibility and fixed some possible crashes. Bonus Feature: Ctrl-Mousewheel in the pattern editor.

Get buze-0.4.6.zip.”