Buzz is a weird case, the development stopped when the dev (Oskari Tamminen) lost the code due to hard drive death. But it was designed to be expandable so people carried on using it and creating things like VST support and other machines.

Then he restarted it from a fresh codebase (the .NET thing you mention), which is where we are now. Some people prefer the old version though, which is way creaky on modern machines, but you can still coax it to work.

Aforementioned SunVox is kind of a spiritual successor, has similar tracker and modular patching interface, but it's not open to outside developers. But hey, if you like trackers, both are good and you can get way wonky patching shit left and right!

 

I've had the same wish precisely, which led me to find this theme:


Some of the key components like mixer faders, transport, etc come with alternatives (for example, I don't like that massive varispeed slider so I switched it to a knob). tracks and clips can still have colour of course but it defaults to grey scale. Hope you may find it useful.

 

I searched too and found an Atari Cubase theme. https://stash.reaper.fm/theme/313/Old_School_Atari_ST.zip
Not sure if it works it's rather old from 2009, but a funny one)

 

Cool Edit Pro was my beginning. It still is such amazing software. Audition is excellent too. In fact, I think it's really weird that more people don't use it.

 

there is newer one JS version no Macromedia Flash needed https://pad.philharmoniedeparis.fr/gamelan/index.html

 

For me the flash version without needing an internet connection makes more sense... Nothing wrong with flash...

Moonfish Tracker which is really a simple tracker that was designed as a joke-

 

HG Fortune - X-Wheel of Fortune 4

X-Wheel of Fortune 4 is a multipart integrated algorithmic music system for creating tracks based on 8 instruments-parts.
Each patch/preset may be a complete musical track, a track for backing a live performance etc. All this can be arranged in two different ways using the algorithmic Wheel mode for free floating or the Scale step mode for harmonically prestructured tracks.

There are 180 PCM waves (taken from STS-26, ProtoPlasm21 and 'shuniji') for the Pad synthesizers, about 200 Percussion instruments and drums. In addition Sf2 files can be loaded at pad parts and wavefiles for percussion. Now with more than 250 inbuilt scales !

Free Download: https://plugins4free.com/plugin/2443/

 

This one looks very cool, I was wondering why it was so unknown, went ahead and downloaded it, but it simply won't run, no messages no anything, just wouldn't even start up. That's why it's unknown I guess, no one is able to check it out lol

 

Maybe one or two GBs.
But if I want to install some new stuff, my NVMe SSD will show a red bar, which is not good.

Maybe I need more time and money to upgrade my NVMe SSD. Then I'll come back here again.

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I might have to upgrade my NVMe SSD, as it's getting close to the red bar when I add a few GB to the C drive.

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I've never used dual booting before, I assume with an additional boot (say I'm using Windows 7), the data on all the HDDs on the other drive will be visible right?

I might also want to install FL Studio 5.
It was the first “old school” FL Studio I ever tried back in the day.
So I assume I'll need more than a GB or two if I want to install everything including Cool Edit Pro 2.1.

 

Try to free up some hard drive space, at least 1.5-2 GB.
You shouldn't use your regular hard drive in the red zone. Red means warning - please delete something.

When you set up a dual system, you split your hard drive into two separate disks (two partitions). You boot into Windows 7 and then install and use FL Studio 5 (Windows 7 version) as usual. If you want to return to your normal operating system, log out, restart your PC and select Windows 10 in the boot menu.

Dual Boot Windows 7 and Windows 10!

 

Not sure if anyone mentioned Zynewave Podium yet- https://zynewave.com/podium/

Looks like a usable DAW. No VST3 support or recent updates, though.

 

I will... Thank you for your advice.

I see, thanks again for the insight on dual boot on old DAWs that are only compatible for old OS.

 

you could run it from a 32gb usb3 thumb drive, for testing purposes, it won't be any slower than an HDD, and if doesn't work out, you still have a 32gb thumb drive to store music and samples etc on...

 

I don't have a 32gb usb3 thumb drive or anything similar.
I will probably upgrade the NVMe SSD on my C drive to make it dual boot.

Thanks for the insight, I'll be back for further progress, or create a new thread specifically for this case.

 

Sort of a mash up between a DAW and a sampler, the limited by design SugarBytes, EGOist, is a fun way to compose, and the output can be used in more traditional DAW's by saving in .wav.

https://www.soundonsound.com/reviews/sugar-bytes-egoist

 

they are very cheap, under 10$ us, and very handy. I have bags of them, sort of like scrooge Mc'ducks vault.

me diving into my usb thumb drive collection: