1 Reply by inkBot

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Thanks for the replies. Been interesting reading the various opinions on the matter.

I decided to put the money down and get FMDrive. Might be my imagination, but I feel I can hear a difference between it and Genny/YM2612. As for Genny vs YM2612. Genny has a bigger UI, and that feels pretty much it. It seems much the same otherwise, aside from the PSG side of things.

I haven't messed around with FMDrive too much yet, just got it, so I'm not 100% sure about using it for drums. There's a ton of tfi's to go through, so there might be something there to work with, but there's so much and it's not really labeled outside of what game the instruments came from originally (though, considering the sheer bulk of it, I can understand that it's not feasible to label everything for what is, afaik, a one-man operation). Genny had some ok sounding drums in it, so for now I'll be using Genny for that and FMDrive for stuff like bass and guitars.

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2 Topic by inkBot

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I did a search and didn't find a thread on this specific topic, so I'm making a thead about it. Still a possibility of me missing one, but anyway.

I've been using the YM2612 vst by Landon Podbielski found here http://www.ym2612.wonthelp.info/

I've also been looking at the FMDrive vst by Aly James, not a stranger to these forums from what I could see while searching.

They do very similar things and I'd like to know, from people that have used both, which one they prefer, what they think of each, etc. YM2612 sounds good when in use, but FMDrive seems more well thought out when it comes to presets and all that. (From what I can gather YM2612 was made by Podbielski for personal use and then distributed it, which could explain some things about the UI). There's no demo version of FMDrive to my knowledge, so I can't just poke at it to judge for myself before spending money on it.

Thanks.

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