vital VS JuceOPLVSTi

This was the first subtractive snth I got really into. It's so good!

Matt Tytel also made an open source wave table synth called vital that I'm also in love with that you can find here:

https://vital.audio/

git repo is here:

https://github.com/mtytel/vital

Orrrr, you take a look at this https://github.com/mtytel/vital - and see what you can figure out :)

Vital/Vitalium by Matt Tytell — a beast of a spectral wavetable synth. 3 oscillators, sampler, 2 filters, 3 env/LFOs, bunch of macro controls, great in-built effects (compressor, distortion, verb, delay, etc.), and so so much more. Hats off to Matt for this, this is an achievement! Vital is free with a "basic" setup of 75 presets/25 wavetables, there are also options for monthly subscription / "plus" / "pro" upgrades for more presets, skins, and other perks. Matt published Vital's source code but isn't accepting pull requests; Vitalium is a community fork of Vital.

Install https://github.com/mtytel/vital

It's apparently been open source for less than a month under GPLv3: https://github.com/mtytel/vital

As recently as the end of 02020 they were planning to not open-source it: https://forum.vital.audio/t/is-vital-actually-open-source/13...

Vital. Knew it was free, just found out it's OSS too!

Not sure about the pens you mentioned specifically but Vital is pretto good looking and open source https://github.com/mtytel/vital

Vital (with the easiest totally open source version available from KXStudio's version and a nice free, preset pack)

It absolutely looks to be open source to me? https://github.com/mtytel/vital

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.