OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.5.1

Version 1.5.1

• Added an ability to set the audio device by the user interface
• Added support for VGZ importing
• Added an ability to use OPL-Proxy plugin on any platform
• Fixed some bugs in VGM import support
• Fixed the look of UI overall

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.5

• Added Adlib Gold file format
• Added Real-Time MIDI support
• Voice management has been improved
• Reworked audio output support
• Added support of a quick save for some of formats
• Windows 9x build now allowed to use emulators together with the real chip emulator
• Added localization support (Translated into French and Russian)
• Added pitch bend controller and pedal hold support
• Piano widget now allows sliding between keys while mouse button is held
• Added ability to test notes and volume model with a different volume level
• Reworked sounding delay calculation algorithm which now fixes several channel management issues on ADLMIDI
• Rewritten the benchmark which is now fair and does same job on all testing emulators
• Added optional sounding delay analytics feauture (Qwt library is required https://sourceforge.net/projects/qwt/)
• Fixed the measurer which was produced zero note length for some cases
• Added highlighting of piano keys when playing notes via keyboard
• Clipboard is now global: you can run multiple copies of OPN2-BE and copy instruments between different opened files without of importer usage
• Added ability to use hardware OPL3 chip on modern Windows builds through inpout32.dll library, for example, on C-Media chips with OPL3 clone like CMI8738
• Added support for SGI and CIF instrument formats
• Added support for instrument importing from DosBox DRO dumps
• Fixed playback of Rhyth-mode percussions
• Rhythm-mode percussions will disable unnecessary UI parts and unused operators
• Added Public Domain Opal OPL3 emulator made by Reality (a team who originally made the Reality Adlib Tracker)
• Added LGPL licensed JavaOPL3 emulator made by Robson Cozendey in Java and later rewritten into C++ for GZDoom (Thanks to Jean Pierre Cimalando for a work!)
• Added banks comparison tool

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.5-beta

Beta release to test, polish, and fix bugs until release current state.

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.3-beta

Changelog

Version 1.3.0-beta

• Fixed support for AIL banks
• Added support for 128-intstruments banks with ability to toggle, add, delete, clear
• Added ability to clear or delete instrument entries
• Fixed a possible crash on attempt to reset recently added instruments

Version 1.2.3-beta

• Added experimental read-only support for UNIX SB/O3 bank formats
• Added support for single-instrument saving (for now is SBI-only)
• Added support for importing of FM instruments from IMF music files

Version 1.2.2-beta

• Added support for AIL bank format
• Fixed bugs related to instrument importing

Release Notes

• AdLib drum testing (for IBK and BNK) is incomplete and produces incorrect sound
• UNIX SB/OP are read-only yet
• Multi-Banks supports works for melodic and for AIL only until own "WOPL" file format will be developed.
• Adding/Cloning/Clearing/Removing of banks and instruments feature needs extra testing yet.

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.2.1-beta

Changelog

• Added instrument importing from another banks (that allows merging and mass copy-pasting of instruments between banks)
• Added support of Sound-Blaster IBK files
• Added support of AdLib/HMI BNK bank formats (Support is experimental!)
• Experimental support of 5-channel OPL2 percussion mode testing

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.2.0

Changelog

• Added support of DMX OPL2 and Build Engine Timbre bank formats support
• Added support of pseudo 4-operators mode (DMX OPL2 format only)
• Added support for custom instrument names (DMX OPL2 format only)
• Added velocity offset parameter (TMB format only)
• Better management of the channes
• Fixed toggling between 2-op and 4-op modes (sometimes that caused a wired noices because junk left after previous tests in channes which are must be empty on mode toggling)

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.1.2

Changelog

• Added more chords
• Added internal clipboard support (to copy / paste instrument)
• Fixed window size
• Ability to reset instrument state to previous
• States of Deep Tremolo and Deep Vibrato, and recently opened/saved file now are remembering
• Ability to drop file into the window to open it
• Ability to open file from command line argument
• Better poliphony: now used all 18 2-operator channels and 6 4-operator channels
• Question on saving a modified file
  

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.1.0.0

Changelog

• Added piano layout to test notes
• Added menubar
• Improved view of main window
• Fixed names of some instruments and percussions
• Single-note testing now allows 3 mixing channels to keep releases of previous note hits

OPL3 FM Bank Editor v.1.0.0.0