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@Tourmaline it works really good so far, I have taken raw chip commands and reversed them into reusable tracker instruments.

@sun I see, that's pretty neat
any particular reason you started working on it?

@Tourmaline I wanted to take classic game soundtracks:

* MS-DOS games using SoundBlaster 16
* NEC PC-98 games using OPNA

and extract the instruments so new songs could be written in the same styles.

now I'm just adding every "this is cool too" feature that doesn't break anything.

@sun classic scope creep

@Tourmaline it's how you avoid working on actual art. keep fiddling with the tools forever

@sun @Tourmaline yes DTM is a "buying gear" hobby

@hakui but trackers are free 😭

@Tourmaline linux distros and packages are free too but it's also a "buying gear" hobby

@hakui @Tourmaline OPL3 emulation is perfect but I went ahead and bought an original chip just to be safe

@sun @Tourmaline I think I know something to recommend. I'll go fetch it.

@TheTeka @Tourmaline great!

@sun @Tourmaline I edited my comment just now. Refresh the thread to see it.

@Tourmaline the look of this is generic as fuck but I don't want that to be interesting, just maximally useful