You can read here http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic ... sc&start=0 a series posts full of love and hopefulness to see any further development/bugfixing for VOPM, which has been suddenly abandoned for a few years now.
Source is here http://www.geocities.jp/sam_kb/VOPM/
If anyone is looking for a pet project, I think this would be a super cool one.
Plea for VOPM development
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- KVRist
- 237 posts since 28 Mar, 2005 from Netherlands
As the guy who converted the 2612.org archive to .opm files, I fully concur. This would be an AWESOME and IMPORTANT project for some developer to take up. Sam doesn't seem to be doing much with VOPM, and there's no other FM synth out there to my knowledge that will load these files.
This needs to happen! Some of these sounds are just too precious to many of us who grew up around them to be left alone!
An FM synth that could not only accurately and faithfully load these files, but one with a fully modern GUI and vastly extended capability for tweakage (think unison, filters, more operators, freely configurable algorithms, etc.) would be about the greatest thing ever, in my humble estimation.
Somebody, please make it happen!
This needs to happen! Some of these sounds are just too precious to many of us who grew up around them to be left alone!
An FM synth that could not only accurately and faithfully load these files, but one with a fully modern GUI and vastly extended capability for tweakage (think unison, filters, more operators, freely configurable algorithms, etc.) would be about the greatest thing ever, in my humble estimation.
Somebody, please make it happen!
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 530 posts since 1 May, 2011
Yes, despite the brilliance of this synth I had to ditch it because of the silly bugs.
In my DAW the GUI won't refresh when changing patches except inconsistently and usually only once after clicking the logo, the onboard preset/patch change doesn't work, there is no Volume control and CC volume control seems broken and it just feels like it might be unreliable and too sketchy to incorporate into saved project files.
If nobody is going to take advantage of the source code in this century hopefully someone will protect it in a thumb drive encased in carbonite so in one thousand years OPM presets will be discovered by future men who will use them for evacuation alarm calls on galactic mining planets.
In my DAW the GUI won't refresh when changing patches except inconsistently and usually only once after clicking the logo, the onboard preset/patch change doesn't work, there is no Volume control and CC volume control seems broken and it just feels like it might be unreliable and too sketchy to incorporate into saved project files.
If nobody is going to take advantage of the source code in this century hopefully someone will protect it in a thumb drive encased in carbonite so in one thousand years OPM presets will be discovered by future men who will use them for evacuation alarm calls on galactic mining planets.
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- KVRist
- 39 posts since 13 Nov, 2005 from iloilo
any development on this? I can't open MR Washingtons OPMs in FL Studio I was really excited about that\m/