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tcaudilllg
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 Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2026 8:01 am Post subject: DOS OPL3 editor |
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Hi all. I was wondering if you guys had a copy still of a hopefully not lost OPL3 instrument editor for DOS. It featured 4 ADSR windows on screen at once, 1 for each operator, which allowed you to shape the envelopes by tugging. It also had an interesting feedback guitar preset which I had hoped to find again. I looked all over Simtel archive and textfiles.com and IA all. Also been scouring the Wayback Machine for all the sites I frequented back in the day (did you know Angelfire and Tripod recently closed? My old site as well.). I've been studying FM synthesis recently and wanted to understand how they got the effect better. It's been 25 years since I used that program but hopefully someone has it still...
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Bjorn
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Joined: 29 May 2002
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Location: Germany
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Hey tcaudilllg, unfortunately I can't help personally, but I had Claude do some searching and this is what it came up with:
| Quote: | The "4 ADSR windows, one per operator" detail means it had to be a true OPL3 4-operator editor, which rules out most of the era's FM tools (SBTimbre, INSMAKER, FM Timbre were 2-op and slider-based). My best guess is the editor from JungleVision - its patches use the .OP3 format, and notably its bank editor was proprietary and never really released publicly, which would explain why it's so hard to re-find now. I can't confirm it had the draggable envelopes and the feedback-guitar preset specifically, so treat that as a lead rather than a certainty.
Two things that might help either way:
- Wohlstand's OPL3 Bank Editor (https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPL3BankEditor) - open source, reads/writes JungleVision .OP3 plus DMX, TMB, IBK, BNK etc., supports 2-op/4-op instruments, and does live testing through several OPL3 emulators. If you can track down an .OP3 bank with that feedback-guitar patch, you could study it directly here.
- Where to ask: the folks most likely to ID it on sight are on VOGONS (there's already a "Junglevision OPL3 four operator" thread in the Marvin's Marvellous Mechanical Museum software subforum) and the SOUNDSHOCK FM-synthesis forum. A post describing the four draggable ADSR windows + the feedback-guitar preset would probably get an instant answer.
Do you remember what extension it saved instruments as (.OP3, .SBI, .O3, something custom)? That one detail would likely confirm or kill the JungleVision theory. |
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