Re: Windows, Doom, Apogee OPL3 Synthesizer.

Posted on 2021-03-19, 07:24

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The problem is that newest Win 10 versions remove drivers that are not 'properly installed' on every boot. Windows 10 is the worst operating system in the universe, I never liked it because of built-in spyware and a ton of default startup daemons. Also because of such "features". Probably I found …

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Re: Windows, Doom, Apogee OPL3 Synthesizer.

Posted on 2021-03-14, 21:01

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Unfortunately, neither the Windows driver linked to in the opening post of this thread or the Windows driver in datajake1999's fork survives a reboot. I would greatly appreciate any assistance in helping me figure this out. Thank you very much. That because Microsoft has been removed the MIDI …

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Re: Fastest ISA video card for Doom

Posted on 2020-08-13, 06:42

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I have the Cirrus Logic cl-gd542986qc for 16-bit ISA (I run the thing on the computer with Intel 486DX2 66MHz and 8 MB RAM), and, unfortunately, Doom works slow, and so, I need to reduce the size of screen and play game with a small "window". Does this needs for some extra DOS side things to make it …

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Re: libADLMIDI - C++ library made from ADLMIDI (MIDI-player with OPL3 Emulation)

Posted on 2019-03-15, 12:29

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Thanks for your explanation. It seems GENMIDI(GS).wopl is a nice bank. But I don't know what the implications are when it comes to polyphony. For normal GM and GS MIDI files, would I need to use a large amount of emulated chips? Not sure how to tell how many I need. (The 16 I used in the example …

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Re: libADLMIDI - C++ library made from ADLMIDI (MIDI-player with OPL3 Emulation)

Posted on 2019-03-13, 09:07

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What I was trying to do was choose a bank that sounds good when playing GM or GS MIDI files. Bank 65 sounded really good. Is there a bank you'd recommend for MIDIs? That bank I made long time ago in childhood: I have experimented with SBTimbre by modding of Fatman bank and using Jammie O'Connel's …

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Re: libADLMIDI - C++ library made from ADLMIDI (MIDI-player with OPL3 Emulation)

Posted on 2019-03-12, 17:54

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Running the above for each ADLMIDI_EMU_* choice will result in these CPU loads: JAVA: 20% OPAL: 41% DOSBOX: 80% NUKED: 80% I did the test of DosBox and Nuked, and I have found next: the bank 65 does use of rhythm-mode percussions. I have found that when DosBox emulator will use rhythm-mode …

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Re: libADLMIDI - C++ library made from ADLMIDI (MIDI-player with OPL3 Emulation)

Posted on 2019-03-11, 22:25

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Thanks for this library! I'm adding it as a MIDI renderer option in some of my applications. I glad you like it :3 I noticed that when it comes to CPU load, it doesn't matter whether I choose Nuked OPL or DBOPL. Both have the same CPU usage (around 30% on a single core, 4 OPL chips enabled in both …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2019-02-15, 11:09

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.ins files written by Bank Editor are not recognized by Reality Adlib Tracker 2.0. Are there different .ins standards? `.ins` are saved by OPL3-BE are AdLib instruments in original format. I had no experience with Reality Adlib Tracker except the case I have made the importer which can extract …

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Re: libOPNMIDI - a MIDI-player with OPN2 (YM2612) Emulation (C/C++ library)

Posted on 2018-11-17, 00:36

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SLON , some good news for you: https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPN2BankEditor/issues/46 and https://github.com/Wohlstand/libOPNMIDI/pull/72 So, we now have the experimental support of OPNA chip, and we have to experiment with it on some other ways. It's not ready for everything, but it's able to play …

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Re: libOPNMIDI - a MIDI-player with OPN2 (YM2612) Emulation (C/C++ library)

Posted on 2018-10-09, 19:17

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What about the possibility of using the YM2608 core? It was distinguished by the presence of additional SSG and ADPCM, and also, as far as I know, a higher-quality DAC. True, I do not know how useful this will be for MIDI. It's dependent on the availability of necessary emulator and the chip …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2018-09-21, 11:39

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Thanks Wohlstand, I will try to compile OPL3BankEditor later today. I also have Master of Magic. The FAT-OPL3.BNK file has a text file in the same directory called FAT.CAT which shows it is an Insmaker Gold bank file. In the past, I viewed the bank file in the adlib gold sdk that was posted …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2018-09-21, 10:36

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Stretch wrote: Are there any plans for Adlib Gold bnk files? https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPL3BankEditor/pull/98 Hello! Experimental Read-Only AdLib Gold BNK is now supported! I had only "Master of Magic" bank, and I need for more banks. Can anyone provide them?

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Re: libOPNMIDI - a MIDI-player with OPN2 (YM2612) Emulation (C/C++ library)

Posted on 2018-03-05, 11:26

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Would it be possible to combine best wavetable and fm instruments as a one synthezator? are there any better fm instruments at all? Yes! Once I combined Jammie O'Connel's driver with customized Fatman bank and Yamaha S-YXG50 software synthesizer and got this: http://wohlsoft.ru/docs/Music/Misc/ …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-07-24, 12:00

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Thanks Wohlstand. The fat2.op3 exported as Unix 2 op sounds very close to Win98SE FM driver. Fat4.op3 exported skips a lot but that is probably because there's not enough polyphony. Fat4.op3 is the four-operator bank, and it's not because of polyphony, but to export 4-operator banks, use bank that …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-07-22, 00:25

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Anyway, in 1.3.1-beta support for writing of SB, OP, and 4-operator SBI files has been added: https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPL3BankEditor/commit/5a789d1e6756dba93b6366f4b949ced029564bd0 EDIT: I also just now added support for old AdLib's INS instrument import/export support. EDIT2: I just now added …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-07-21, 20:40

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Still looking forward to this tool making it possible to make a FatMan bank for UNIX systems so I can actually be serious about using my cmi-pci as a MIDI device. About C-Media: I have some set of C-Media sound cards in my collection and you just gave me a wonderful idea! :cool: I want to try some …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-07-17, 12:02

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Stretch wrote: Thanks Wohlstand. Is there a way to save a 4op instrument as a 60 byte sbi file? Right now it saves as 2op 52 byte sbi file. Not yet, I have to implement that P.S. Do you have example files? Can you send me them to let me better understand them?

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-07-17, 03:56

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Beta-version which now supports BNK are correctly opening by INSMAKER for DOS, UNIX SB and OP banks, AIL banks, added support for multi-banks (required for AIL format, but will be used widely for own format in future), and instrument import from IMF music files https://github.com/Wohlstand/ …

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libOPNMIDI - a MIDI-player with OPN2 (YM2612) Emulation (C/C++ library)

Posted on 2017-05-22, 17:21

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Hello! I'v got inspired by ADLMIDI program, which a MIDI player over chip emulator, and after creating the libADLMIDI I kept in my mind the idea to create similar library, but over YM2612 chip (a same chip that used in Sega MegaDrive/Genesis game console). Because the sense of any MIDI player to …

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Re: OPL2/OPL3 FM Bank Editor for Windows/Linux/MacOS X

Posted on 2017-05-22, 16:19

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MusicallyInspired , The BNK format is supported experimentally, for now writer is works incorrectly and produces invalid bank file, also in works the support for UNIX SB/OP banks. I think, I'll ask them for specification of their bank/instrument format and I'll implement the module which will …

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