Anyone interested in a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive VST should be using Plogue's Chipsynth MD instead of the Aly James FMDrive: https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-md.html

I have both and the Plogue is much more user friendly, has all the VGM conversion features built in, and actually acts as a player too if you just want to use it to listen to some tracks. Extra features like effects and stackable/splittable programs are nice bonuses.

Anyone interested in a Sega Genesis/Mega Drive VST should be using Plogue's Chipsynth MD instead of the Aly James FMDrive: https://www.plogue.com/products/chipsynth-md.html

I have both and the Plogue is much more user friendly, has all the VGM conversion features built in, and actually acts as a player too if you just want to use it to listen to some tracks. Extra features like effects and stackable/splittable programs are nice bonuses.

Awesome! Thank you!

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Hi,
Go to the download section, under FMDrive you will find a link to the MIDI 2 VGM conversion pack (Convert your FMDrive or/and SPSG track to a .VGM format. (Win Only), info and how to included.

https://www.alyjameslab.com/download.html

Hi everyone!
There are some ways to save a track from this VST to VGM format? I see in first message that it has been in TO_DO list in 2014)

Hi everyone!
There are some ways to save a track from this VST to VGM format? I see in first message that it has been in TO_DO list in 2014)

I am the guy who got it to run on wine/linux.
I want to clarify some thing.

The STANDALONE version works - but you can not use it in a DAW.
The VST version however does not work at all. This is a shame, because on linux there is a number of great professional DAWs and a lot of people use the platform. We have Tracktion, Renoise, also some of the open source ones include LMMS and Ardour - just to name a few.

I am able to load some other windows VST in Tracktion by using Carla-rack. It is a host that uses wine.
Carla allows me to use VOPM - which is another (free) sega mega drive/genesis sound chip emulator. VOPM is very old and does not have the sexy interface of fmdrive, but at least works. There used to be a native vst port of vopm on linux, but the source code was lost and the native linux binary files of it don't work any more because they were compiled back in 2009 on much older libraries.

In short - currently there is no native vst on linux that does sega mega drive. Fmdrive has the opportunity to be the only one - if there is interest to port it over.

Sorry for the laaaaate reply pretty busy!
This might help... http://www.alyjameslab.com/macosxsupport.html

Is.... is... this still in the works? my genmdm is getting cold....

FMDrive VST + SPSG VST demo playlist updated
https://soundcloud.com/alyjameslab/sets/fmdrive-vsti

I was working on some FM programming today for my genmdm. I NEEED A MAC VERSION ALY! Save me!

last but not least... SPOILER...
MID2VGM will now support FMDrive MIDI CC automation, basically all YM2612 registers... but what I have in mind for the future will be the reverse!
VGM2MID with register to FMDrive MIDI CC conversion, this way a track with constantly moving registers like Jesper Kyd "Gotham by Night" could be completely redone in no time...

I really do need to go back and fix the JavaScript YM2612, it's actually quite broken. I must have gotten something basic completely wrong and I left it sit all this time.