opentyrian VS JuceOPLVSTi

OpenTyrian?

Both Tyrian and -2K have open source ports: openTyrian, OpenTyrian2k

- OpenTyrian and OpenTyrian2000 (fork from the original): https://github.com/opentyrian/opentyrian https://github.com/KScl/opentyrian2000

You could try using OpenTyrian instead (source port of Tyrian 2000)

Tyrian. Great game, great music, great writing, is vertical shooter where you don't go through bullet hell. Windows Android Mac

What Soundblaster emulator did you wind up using? Think there's a way to dig into OpenTyrian and pull out the exact patches from the tracks?

Check this out https://github.com/bsutherland/JuceOPLVSTi

A workaround is to not use OpenMPT's built-in OPL samples, but instead, an OPL VST instrument plugin like JuceOPLVSTi, and make your OPL instrument use this plugin instead of the OPL samples. Then you can either apply the reverb plugin to the channel you want, or just route the output of the OPL plugin to the reverb plugin.

JuceOPL — a clean FM/additive synthesizer.

I don't think the Volca FM would be a good choice for that. For a start, it can only play one instrument at a time (no drums/bass/chords playing alongside the melody). The sequencer is only 1 track and 16 steps. If you want to spend some of your time instead of money, you could try getting more acquainted with Ableton of FL Studio and use a free VST like JuceOPLVSTi.

I ended up using https://bsutherland.github.io/JuceOPLVSTi/ since it made composition way easier than messing around with tracker software. I haven't really looked into extracting the patches from the game, but i'm sure it's possible - it did have a jukebox mode after all.