[PGE MusPlay] My suggestions

[oop23]

Hi, I have a few suggestions in order to add them to PGE Musplay:

• OPN/OPL MIDI to .vgm export.
• Custom PCM Drums in OPN MIDI
• channels display in OPN/OPL MIDI

[Wohlstand]

About OPN:

• export into VGM yeah, but: OPN MIDI player simulates multiple chips to excite 6 channels limit, but when I will export as VGM, Ill need to drop junk or use automatic arpedgio to fit playing MIDI into 6 channels or 5 when DAC is in use. Result would be junky if too much polyphony in your MIDI file
• PCM drums are already in plan, and in my gm bank ill use some druma from Sonic games, and most of drums are fine as FM (bongos, whistles, yeah, kicks, rides, wood blocks, or even timbales, but cuica and belltree are wants for PCM, and snares and some kicks also. If you know, I have plan to provide XG / GS MIDI standards where are many percussion modes and more than 127 melodic instruments.

About OPL:

• That can be exported as IMF (VGM doesnt support YMF262, only OPN, SN.. and OPLL) that widely used in Wolfenstein and lot of Apogee games, which holds raw OPL register data. Yeah, player of IMF file is super simple: just sequentially send register data to chip with keeping of delay.

About both:

Yeah, goos idea to provide API to be able to track MIDI channels, mute them or manipulate loop / tempo, etc. I have to make separated synthesizer independent midi player library that ill use for all MIDI devices to support tempo manipulation, loop points, and channel tracking for all supported by SDL Mixer X midi libraries

[Wohlstand]

• OPN/OPL MIDI to .vgm export.: Make MIDI2VGM with using of raw YM2612 stream of chip Wohlstand/libOPNMIDI#93
• Custom PCM Drums in OPN MIDI: Implement PCM voices support through YM2612's DAC Wohlstand/libOPNMIDI#5
• channels display in OPN/OPL MIDI: Right now I have some API for that, but it isn't used yet.