Thanks! Nice album.. I like the "talky" sounds.
17 Nov 18, 2013 12:50 pm
Re: [Tokyo] 9/28 - 29 - Squaresounds festival (28 replies, posted in Past Events)
18 Nov 18, 2013 12:47 pm
Re: My floppy drive is pissed (6 replies, posted in Other Hardware)
If you need a floppy drive, grab a USB one.. if you have USB.
USB was always a bit flaky in Windows 95 too... could be in for some fun times.
19 Nov 17, 2013 3:52 pm
Re: [Tokyo] 9/28 - 29 - Squaresounds festival (28 replies, posted in Past Events)
Wow, hope there's another one next year. What's that awesome track in the second half the video?
20 Nov 14, 2013 7:18 am
Re: ATTN OLD SCHOOL DEMOSCENE FOLKS, NEED HELP (37 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Try posting on pouet.net. There's a good chance somebody on there will be able to help find him / her.
21 Nov 13, 2013 4:24 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Just built a new release, Windows download here:
http://bsutherland.github.io/JuceOPLVSTi/
@fluidvolt: You can now enable velocity sensitivity for both carrier and modulator.
@sandnell: Hopefully I've fixed the stereo issue. Please let me know whether that works properly for you now.
It now supports loading parameters from SBI files ("Creative Labs Sound Blaster Instrument"). There are quite a lot of those floating around on the net, and in the git repository I've uploaded a bunch from Adlib Tracker 2.
If anybody wants an OSX version, I'm afraid you'll need to build it, but I'm happy to help you do that if you can send me the binary afterwards 
22 Nov 8, 2013 1:16 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
yoyz2k, glad you like it.
You could either just rip dbopl.cpp out of DOSBox like I did, and program it like it's an OPL2 chip through registers. Or you could use the little HiOpl module I wrote on top of that. Or, you could use the VST interface. Probably HiOpl will be the easiest. Look at the code to see how the VST parameters map into the OPL registers.
23 Nov 7, 2013 4:49 am
Re: M0D - Pie 'n Chips (5 replies, posted in Releases)
Nice one, classic sound. I haven't heard a lot of Amiga stuff, this sounds pretty C64 to me (that's a good thing
24 Nov 6, 2013 12:42 pm
Re: Free/cheaper alternatives to Vocaloid? (9 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Utau looks great, thanks!
Maybe Sam+Kerovee can do backing vocals
25 Nov 6, 2013 3:51 am
Re: Help with some investigation about FM synth (25 replies, posted in General Discussion)
That's great that you got a reply from Chowning. Just curious, what class is this for? Music? Computing? I wish I had classes where I could write about synths at school
Anyway, I really like this as a practical introduction to FM synths. I think he shows and explains it quite clearly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziFv00PegJg
26 Nov 6, 2013 1:16 am
Topic: Free/cheaper alternatives to Vocaloid? (9 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Hi,
Does anyone have a recommendation for "singing" text-to-speech software, or a technique for easily "tuning" synthesised speech generated by regular text-to-speech?
Thanks.
27 Nov 5, 2013 5:03 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Danke herr_prof
mattej: Sorry mate, not much chance of a full tracker from me. If you're after something free, I guess you could try Modplug Tracker? I'm pretty sure it supports VST these days.
New release:
NOTE: this version may break saved programs due to parameter changes..
OPL3 waveforms added:
- alternating sine
- camel sine
- square
- logarithmic sawtooth
Velocity sensitivity added for carrier and modulator
Parameters missing from UI added:
- Tremolo depth
- Vibrato depth
- Modulator feedback
https://github.com/bsutherland/JuceOPLV … 0.9.3-beta
28 Nov 3, 2013 1:20 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
sandnell: Sorry to hear you're only getting sound on one channel. What DAW are you using? I've only tested it in one VST host (Renoise), and it puts sound (the same sound) on both channels. The VST itself only has a single output channel though.. I guess it's up to your DAW to decide what to do with that one channel. As for the stuck notes, I don't seem to get that in Renoise. Do you get it with any settings, or only with certain envelope settings?
herr_prof: Thanks for the offer. If you're still interested, could you please try these steps? I'm afraid the instructions aren't very detailed because I can't step through it myself, but this is a high level overview. Let me know if I can help with anything.
1) Download Juce (http://www.juce.com/downloads)
2) Build the IntroJucer in XCode (http://www.juce.com/documentation/getting-started)
3) Download the VST source from GitHub (https://github.com/bsutherland/JuceOPLVSTi/tree/master)
4) Open the .jucer file in the IntroJucer
5) Use the IntroJucer to generate an XCode project
6) Open the generated XCode project
7) Build the project in XCode
29 Oct 29, 2013 4:32 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
No worries. I should make it clear that I didn't write the emulation, it's from DOSBox. I just cut it off at the knees and wrapped it in the VST
30 Oct 29, 2013 4:09 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
I'll be doing Windows builds. Unfortunately I can't do OSX as I don't have a Mac, but according to the Juce documentation, it should be possible to build for OSX if somebody has one with XCode installed:
31 Oct 29, 2013 2:23 pm
Re: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Thanks people
fluidvolt: Actually you're right, velocity isn't linked to note volume at the moment. I had it set up that way initially, but I found it was a bit too sensitive. I should probably add it back in with a couple of sensitivity settings like high, low, and off.
In the mean time, if you can program your VST host to link velocity to the Oscillator 2 attenuation parameter, that should do it too.
32 Oct 27, 2013 1:11 pm
Topic: YM3812 (OPL2) VST Instrument (41 replies, posted in Software & Plug-ins)
Hi everyone.
I see there's recently been an excellent YM2413 VST released, and I've knocked together a YM3812 VST recently. It uses the emulation code from DOSBox. The code is hackish, and the UI is coder-ish, but it works
You can download it here:
https://github.com/bsutherland/JuceOPLVSTi/releases