Taking a day off from working on something and recharging your batteries can do miracles. You have a much better view on it, maybe fresh ears for mixing a track or ideas for final touches on a design. Around 8 years ago the DSP gods seemed to have a bad day and Oskari lost the most recent version of his sources for Buzz. Reasonable enough to drop the project. As it seems, he recently didn’t sleep too well – there was something still craving on his HD asking to be done…

I’m still not sure what “Pimpom” means, however it marks some kind of family reunion for DSP-kind. Just a little gesture at Buzzchurch and the scene holds still. One decade later, Oskari updates the holy Buzz.exe – build from 6 months older sources than the latest version before the hd crash. Meaning: some functionality is gone while other things have been improved. The implemented machines such as Jeskola Mixer, support for SF2 loading in the wavetable and the Auxbus aren’t working or absent at the moment. The VST loaders have a few issues as well, so do the Peerhacks but the good news: stability has improved a lot.

If a machine crashes right now it just doesn’t kill the entire Buzz, it’s being marked as crashed so you know what you may have done wrong or which gear you should prevent using. You’ll even have the chance of saving your work. Thank god Oskari for that! There are also a few fancy things like anti aliased connections, shadows and some more detail improvements.

But worth more than that is the new enthusiasm inside the Buzzscene. I don’t know any other apps which survived such a long time without hope for further development but many buzz machine devs never gave up and kept going and going and going. These news are like the first rain drops in the desert after a long heat period.

/me sings “it’s raining code – hallelulja” and looks forward to the things to come. In hope the rain doesn’t stop too early…

Kudos Oskari.