OPL3 emulator

Emulates the OPL3 audio chip (also known as FM synthesis generator and AdLib chip).
The package actually contains two versions: One written by me (not quite well working), and one written by 佐藤 辰行 (impressive!).

The package also contains a midi player. Useful for testing how this works.

These samples represent jts-st3.mid (Journey to Silius stage 3 theme, sequenced by anonymous) played with fmdrv through opl3emu, opl3emu2 and real hardware.

Source	File
opl3emu	sample1.mp3 (760 kB)
opl3emu2	sample2b.mp3 (750 kB)
Genuine OPL3 chip (Sound Blaster AWE32)	sample3.mp3 (600 kB)

Offtopic: Btw, the real song is available too at zophar.net. In the referenced file, it's the song number 4.

opl3emu has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a. Bisqwit,
and is distributed under the following terms:

* No warranty. You are free to modify this source and to
* distribute the modified sources, as long as you keep the
* existing copyright messages intact and as long as you
* remember to add your own copyright markings.
* You are not allowed to distribute the program or modified versions
* of the program without including the source code (or a reference to
* the publicly available source) and this notice with it.

opl3emu2 uses the engine written by Tatsuyuki Satô and improved by Jarek Burczynski for the MAME project.
I don't know what kind of license does it come with.

GNU make and GNU C++ compiler is probably required.
A sound card (OSS) might prove useful.

In version 1.1.0 I took the newest version of the OPL emulator in MAME (nowadays maintained apparently by Jarek Burczynski). Seems like the quality has improved a lot since.

Q: So if the emulator isn't written by you, what are you doing here?
A: I was going to write one, and I started that too, but then I found 佐藤 辰行's code. Anyway, I have provided here a nice example and a real life application of how to use it ;)

• sndtool2, which handles NES music, is somewhat related to OPL, although NES doesn't use FM synthesis (except on one extension chip).
• fmengineqb is an adlib S3M player for QuickBasic. Embed opl3emu as assembler code to it, and your AdlibS3M player in QuickBasic now works without an OPL3 chip :)
• echoamplifier can be used to add echo to your adlib music.
• fmdrv plays MIDI files by direct AdLib port IO or by direct MPU-401 port IO. Source codes available for this one too.

The official home page of opl3emu is at http://oktober.stc.cx/source/opl3emu.html.
Check there for new versions.