Improved RnZ... VST adapters for Buzz 1.2b
- Published: 2023-03-28 23:34
- Updated: 2023-03-28 23:34
This is an attempt at ensuring Buzz 1.2b's stability at start, whilst using the many old VST adapters. To allow for opening old projects. They caused a lot of crashes when installed at the same time, cause they try indexing the same folder, and write the same index files at the same time.
How does this work?¶
With a dirty hex-editor hack: I replaced a single letter in each .dll, from 'vst' to its corresponding last developer intitial. As follows:
These are hardwired to index vsf and vfr instead of vst now:
RnZnAnF VST effect & instrument adapters¶
- Changed Buzz/Gear/vst to Buzz/Gear/vsf
RnZnAnFnR VST Instrument Adapter¶
- Changed Buzz/Gear/vst to Buzz/Gear/vfr
Whereas these five check for plugins according to their now own .ini files:
RnZnAnFnC instrument adapters¶
- Changed vstsettings.ini to vscsettings.ini
- suggestion: use Gear/vsc
RnZnAnFnCnR effect & instrument adapters¶
- Changed vstsettings.ini to vsrsettings.ini
- suggestion: use Gear/vsr
RnZnAnFnCnRnL effect & instrument adapters¶
- Changed vstsettings.ini to vslsettings.ini
- suggestion: use Gear/vsl
Replace ‘insert full path here’ in each respective .ini with the full path to the new VST plugin folders c:\…
ROUT VST loader¶
- Its folder can be defined within the Buzz machine itself
- For compatibilities sake: give it its own folder
Good practices¶
- Keep the amount of plugins per folder to a bare minimum
- Use VST plugin versions from when you created the project (.bmx timestamp)
- Load a .bmx/bmw in your text editor
- Search for VST
- Locate the VST plugin/dll name it tries to load
- Copy to the respective new vsf/vsl/vsr/vst folder
- Give Polac's loaders its own separate directory
- On Windows XP, Buzz works more stable for me in 'Windows 2000'-compatibility mode
Does this really work?¶
You tell me! So far, I was able to load about 50 old projects from 2000-2003. Of course: step by step. When a VST plugin was missing, I first had to install it. Once in the correct folder for the adapter in use, it loaded fine.
Sanity warning¶
- BEWARE OF NOISE BURSTS!
- MUTE YOUR MONITORS WHEN LOADING AN OLD PROJECT!
- DON'T USE HEADPHONES!
The noise bursts I've got were due to high feedback delays and long reverb times. So far, I was able to redeem every one of them by dialing down the respective settings. Then wait till the buffers ran empty.