The Linux Audio Conference 2008 was nice once again. Good talks, interesting know-how exchange and of course opportunities for testing and hacking on buzztard.

I have improved the playback engine a bit. It now uses less additional latency. Still one get much lower latency by using jack, instead of pulse audio (currently experimenting to lower latency there too).

The pattern editor got better gtk+ theme support (especially on dark ones) and also tries to use the default monospace font and font-size to better match with the overall look of your desktop. I implemented blending value ranges and randomization of ranges. FSM implemented more keyboard shortcuts. I added value descriptions to the status bar where the plugin supports it.

Also the sequence editor got some todo-fixing. The sequence was never horizontally scrollable (adding columns would force the window to be wider). The M,S,B buttons are now color shaded when pressed to give better visual clues. Finally also the position unit switcher is functional (ticks/time) and the label navigator gets properly updated. Lots of small things I never got around until now

Level meters in sequence and analyzer windows are now more lively and precise. Having several analyzers open now also produces the expected results.

The buzz song importer got further fixes. It seems to load all of my songs just fine now.

Some improvements also on the buzz emulation side. More machines load and work. We have a nice testsuite with html reports now. I spotted some issues which will fix more machines. Will try to implement this next.

If nothing urgent comes up. I'll prepare the release in the coming days. Stay tuned.