Tying up loose ends

[sneakernets]

The project has been dormant for a while, being pretty much "done" for the most part, save for some drum kits and some GS/XG instruments that are being done "when I get around to it". But there are some instruments that I think need some work now that I've heard them enough:

• Pizzicato Strings: Sound too much like a steel drum somehow, needs some more timbre (but how?)
• Brass Section needs to have detune applied on attack, this once worked, but somehow got changed. This only affects a few midis.
• Shakuhachi needs a lot of work. It sounds pretty scratchy and bad in high ranges.
• Tubular Bells ADSR needs some cleaning up. Sometimes the bell gets cut off (ADLMIDI issue? who knows)
• Timbales need to be redone completely. There has to be a way to pull that sound off!
• Clean up toms on other drum kits.
• Finish the drum kits.
• Make Rhodes Piano a little better. This has been tweaked a lot since I started, and it may have gotten worse.
• Mayyybe tweak choirs a bit?
• Orchestra Hit needs redoing. It's too fuzzy. I had a better sounding one before. Find it maybe?
• Clarinet needs a little tweaking. It's much too "honk".

[sneakernets]

Here are some instruments I cleaned up a bit today newinst.zip

[sneakernets]

and genmidi(gs) with new piano for testing

GENMIDI(piano).zip

[freq-mod]

May I leave this - GENMIDI.zip Long time ago, I improved maany instruments. I don't remember what I did after like 9 months, so you would unfortunately have to run through it and compare it against your GENMIDI. I can only say it's https://github.com/sneakernets/DMXOPL/commit/f54a1e94fdbc8da7ccf78f8dc05d4fd6eea7bb3f and much more.

It features better orchestra hits - also check square wave based impact hit. Choirs are also different. Shakuhachi is redone.

[sneakernets]

@papiezak omg thank you! I will go through it! maybe @WohlStand would know if there is a way to do a quick diff on these in the editor? Would make my life SO much easier!

[freq-mod]

So I opened an issue ticket on an editor side. BTW I think I edited Accordions as well, 2600 Sine. I also added some GS instruments (OB Strings for example). I can go an isolate some of changed patches, but I don't know what to compare against 🤣

[freq-mod]

Wll, @jpcima made a git-diff wopl bank text converter, but I didn't get it to work as intended, so I dumped my modded instrumnets manually. newinst.zip - there it is. 68 instuments, do what you want with it. If you like, ping. About SC-55 bank drum patches - I didn't dump them. Too much of a hassle.

[freq-mod]

Comparison was made against GENMIDI(GS) file

[jpcima]

There is an integrated diff viewer at https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPL3BankEditor/pull/143

[jpcima]

I make the diff available here for now. http://jpcima.sdf1.org/files/DMXOPL-diff.html (which is the same as OPL3-BE in experimental branch) Let me know if you spot anomalies.

[sneakernets]

Aaah I will take a look at all this later in the week (or tonight maybe), thank you so much! I can get this done/tweaked and a new release soon, surely!

[OlPainless]

Hey everyone, it's been a while! I've been experimenting on and off on sounds, and one day I came across some timbale sounding sounds: timbales.zip . Thoughts?

[Wohlstand]

Sounds interesting

[OlPainless]

Sounds interesting

Thanks! I know it's not perfect, but it can work as a stop-gap until we get an even better one.

I could maybe take a look at the orchestral drum set. I have several midis that use it, but sound off since some drums are arranged differently compared to standard set. If that's okay?

[sneakernets]

That sounds great to me! I will make a branch with these. I don't want to break other projects that rely on this as a submodule.