Installing Buzz for Beginners

How I Began Using Jeskola Buzz 1.2

So, the first thing that I did was went over to http://www.buzzmachines.com/ and I registered at the site. Then, I went into the info section, and selected 'Download Buzz'.

There are/were two options:

Stealth Buzz Pack
Massive Buzz Pack

The first time I downloaded the second pack, however, I uninstalled/removed the program, and then downloaded the 'Stealth Buzz Pack'.

So, I downloaded the 'Stealth Buzz Pack', and, when it was done, I opened up the downloaded executable (*.exe) - probably something like 'BuzzMachines_Stealth.exe'. This is the message that I was first confronted with when I started up the file:

BM Stealth Pack / January 2003
Important Information

*Mono2Stereo Patcher
This program allows you to make stereo out versions of mono out machines.
It has not been included in the BM Stealth Pack. It is downloadable at Buzzmachines.com

The BM Stealth Pack (BMSP) is missing many of the features found in the BM Massive Pack (BMMP).
BMSP contains:
28 Generators (Synthesizers/Samplers/VST-Soundfont Loaders)
33 Effects
5 Tools/Utils (plus 2 html conversion tables)
2 VSTi's
3 VST FX

BMMP contains:
188 Generators (Synthesizers/Samplers/VST-Soundfont Loaders)
358 Effects
20 Tools/Utils (plus 2 html conversion tables)
4 VSTi's
4 VST FX
3 SoundFonts
16 Buzz Themes
Plus many more features.

For more info pls read the "BMSP.htm" located in your Buzz Main Directory
All of the above statements are subject to change.
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For machine updates and Utilities visit:
http://www.buzzmachines.com
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Stealth Pack Compiling Freak: XionD
With much assistance and thanx to Mikko Apo.
I would like also to thank Stijn Kuipers (Zephod) for some hints and
tips on the index and other things.
Marc van Agteren (Mva) for being so patient and Raul Reales (djlaser)
for the critisism and some helpful ideas.

Okay, so, the Stealth Pack is missing many of the features that the Massive Pack has... From the site we find that:

So, while we will be missing a lot of stuff, we at least have enough to start with, so as to tell whether or not we like the program, and would care to download the larger file. After selecting okay, we move onto a prompt asking us where to install Jeskola Buzz. I have decided to save in the default location: "C:\Program Files\Jeskola Buzz" (and will be assuming that you have too). After pressing Install, we see all of the files that are being placed. After the program has been installed we see the following:

Stealth Pack vs Massive Pack (thumbnail)

Select 'OK' and move onto a 'License Agreement & Instructions' window. Reading this, we see that we should not run more then one fix at a time, and that we should 'Setup Buzz' first. So, we select 'I Agree', choose "Setup Buzz" from the pull down menu, and press "Next >". Make sure that the location is the same as the one where you installed Buzz to ("C:\Program Files\Jeskola Buzz" was where I did it, so, it should be the same in this prompt) and press "Start!". Mine asks me if I want "to show start menu entries for all users?" and I say "OK" to this prompt. Since I said okay, I get an option of where I want the Start Menu folder to go, and I'm just going to use the default location ("C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs"). It also asks if I want to create a quicklaunch icon, and I select 'Cancel' (but, most people probably select OK).

As well as one telling me that I had "Completed Step One!". Then, after pressing OK to that window, the window above changed to:

Patch is done

The text file can also be closed ('Lee Dragon's Mono To Stereo Wrapper.txt') and we can now start Buzz up.
So, let's start Buzz up, and get into the actual program :)

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