Contact oplx user, maybe he/she knows.

OPLx, the user that started that DOS VGM player thread? I guess I'll send a PM to them then.

Yeah, that user, send a PM to his/her.

PM sent. I'll await this persons response.

I found an alsa dev post explaining the structure of the patch files:

[alsa-devel] Re: ALSA OPL3 sequencer sources

Dead link and archive.org doesn't have it archived.

So now I'm going to be stuck hoping someone on this planet has a "adagio05.tar.bz2" file somewhere.

EDIT: Even the links for xfmedit are dead and Archive.org doesn't have it archived... What the hell.

adagio05.tar.gz
Index of /packages/linux-tsx-11/packages/sound

And searching for xfmedit lead me to OplEdit, which according to the author is better than xfmedit. It also has thousands of sbi instrument patches on the webpage.
OplEdit

A friend thankfully managed to find adiago05.tar.gz and I can confirm the .o3 and .sb files are identical to what I have currently, so I'm getting somewhere.

As for OplEdit it looks like it can only handle loading single instrument files, not banks? I'm just going off on the screenshots, I don't know if I can actually compile this thing properly or not.

I've taken an interest in getting better sb/o3 patches for sbiload in Linux as well.

Unless a programmer can convert bnk or op3 banks into sbiload banks, then I believe the only way is to use Glib (console) or xgl (X11) from glib19f.tar.gz.

I've tried both glib and xgl running under Slackware 7.1 in QEMU but I find them difficult to use.

Glib uses h, j, k, and l to navigate, and J and K to increase/decrease the values.

xgl increases values with a click, but to decrease values, you have to right-click and go into a popup menu.

There is a way to change the keys in Glib specified in the source code, so that is what I plan to try next.

I'd like to use a, s, w, d to navigate, and + and - to change values.

Here's some screenshots of the 2 programs editing the 1st instrument in std.o3 and std.sb.

Glib and xgl have the same parameters as you'd see in SBTimbre but additionally have reverb and chorus.

That program would be amazing to have but first I\we need something that can read out the FatMan patches out so we can input them into .o3 files.

ADLMIDI has both a 2op and 4op bank that The FatMan has authored, but I'm not sure which file has what.

I also wonder if it's possible to just not use 4op at all and use only 2op because 4op mode reduces polyphony on the OPL3 rather alot making MIDI music sound very limited in voices.

I hate to double post but does anybody know what Windows used for timbres when using a OPL card for MIDI music? Because it's essentially want I want to have on Linux.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqTyED5afqc

I opened std.sb in a hex editor, and found that the file is just 128 sbi/op2 patches concatenated together.

So, you should be able to extract the sbi files from a bnk file with sbank.exe which is included in sbtimbre, and then combine the sbi files into 1 .sb file.

I don't have linux installed at the moment so I can't try yet to see if sbiload accepts the file. Glib and xgl open the file but the values are all wrong for ADSR, so I think GLib/xgl don't read the embedded sbi files properly.

The .sb file will be missing the adagio extended properties like chorus and reverb, and I haven't looked yet on how to replace the patches for drums.sb

Hello,
I've been playing around with a cheap PCI-e sound card with the CMI8738 chipset that includes OPL3, and I agree that the ALSA default patches aren't very good. It'd be good to replace them with better ones.
Did anyone make any progress with this?
If not, if someone posts a link to the FatMan patches I'll have a go at trying to convert them myself.

dusthillguy wrote:

Hello, I've been playing around with a cheap PCI-e sound card with the CMI8738 chipset that includes OPL3, and I agree that the […]
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Hello,
I've been playing around with a cheap PCI-e sound card with the CMI8738 chipset that includes OPL3, and I agree that the ALSA default patches aren't very good. It'd be good to replace them with better ones.
Did anyone make any progress with this?
If not, if someone posts a link to the FatMan patches I'll have a go at trying to convert them myself.

Yeah, the QT based OPL3BankEditor that Wohlstand was working on can finally write these out, so you can just have my SB files I made.

Thanks very much for this.