m2BUZZ v3.63     (by vII   muehle@theory.phy.tu-dresden.de)
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Introduction/Purpose:
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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
     -press the "Help" button ;)

News:
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Peer machines added. Huge gear listing is not needed anymore.

Comments:
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          -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:
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     -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.
