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Actually more from the Buzz forums

"I believe this installer just bundles Oskari's last version of Buzz 64 from 2016 with all of WDE's extensions that modify the Buzz UI (and a couple other important things like Polac's VST adapter). WDE's work has introduced a lot of UI and workflow improvements that make Buzz more like a modern DAW, though it might take some digging to figure out how to use them.

During the ~8-year period where there was no official Buzz development due to the lost source code, it was third party extensions like Overloader, the Peer controls and the VST loader that kept it useful. So Buzz's hackability has always been one of the things keeping it alive, and this is sort of a continuation of that.

Oskari seems to have moved on to other things since 2016, as far as I can tell from his posts in the Buzz forums, and some people who frequent the Buzz IRC channel seem to have indicated that this is the case. The current x64 executable is still labeled "exerimental" on the Buzz site, though lots of people have reported that it's basically stable as along as you don't rely too much on older 32 bit Buzz machines. That's always been the case however, even with the 32-bit executable. Some of those machines are over 20 years old, and it's surprising they even work at all!"

Buzz is basically just a super powerfully DAW for VST usage and some of its native machines still work but not all. The WDE extensions are pretty solid and automation is fun you just press record, fiddle your knobs and it records hex to midi channels in the tracker.