Tying up loose ends

[sneakernets]

The project has been dormant for a while, being pretty much "done" for the most part, save for some drum kits and some GS/XG instruments that are being done "when I get around to it". But there are some instruments that I think need some work now that I've heard them enough:

• Pizzicato Strings: Sound too much like a steel drum somehow, needs some more timbre (but how?)
• Brass Section needs to have detune applied on attack, this once worked, but somehow got changed. This only affects a few midis.
• Shakuhachi needs a lot of work. It sounds pretty scratchy and bad in high ranges.
• Tubular Bells ADSR needs some cleaning up. Sometimes the bell gets cut off (ADLMIDI issue? who knows)
• Timbales need to be redone completely. There has to be a way to pull that sound off!
• Clean up toms on other drum kits.
• Finish the drum kits.
• Make Rhodes Piano a little better. This has been tweaked a lot since I started, and it may have gotten worse.
• Mayyybe tweak choirs a bit?
• Orchestra Hit needs redoing. It's too fuzzy. I had a better sounding one before. Find it maybe?
• Clarinet needs a little tweaking. It's much too "honk".

[sneakernets]

Here are some instruments I cleaned up a bit today
newinst.zip

[sneakernets]

and genmidi(gs) with new piano for testing

GENMIDI(piano).zip

[freq-mod]

May I leave this -
GENMIDI.zip
Long time ago, I improved maany instruments. I don't remember what I did after like 9 months, so you would unfortunately have to run through it and compare it against your GENMIDI. I can only say it's f54a1e9 and much more.

It features better orchestra hits - also check square wave based impact hit.
Choirs are also different.
Shakuhachi is redone.

[sneakernets]

@Papiezak omg thank you! I will go through it! maybe @Wohlstand would know if there is a way to do a quick diff on these in the editor? Would make my life SO much easier!

[freq-mod]

So I opened an issue ticket on an editor side.
BTW I think I edited Accordions as well, 2600 Sine.
I also added some GS instruments (OB Strings for example). I can go an isolate some of changed patches, but I don't know what to compare against 🤣

[freq-mod]

Wll, @jpcima made a git-diff wopl bank text converter, but I didn't get it to work as intended, so I dumped my modded instrumnets manually.
newinst.zip - there it is. 68 instuments, do what you want with it. If you like, ping.
About SC-55 bank drum patches - I didn't dump them. Too much of a hassle.

[freq-mod]

Comparison was made against GENMIDI(GS) file

[jpcima]

There is an integrated diff viewer at Wohlstand/OPL3BankEditor#143

[jpcima]

I make the diff available here for now. http://jpcima.sdf1.org/files/DMXOPL-diff.html
(which is the same as OPL3-BE in experimental branch)
Let me know if you spot anomalies.

[sneakernets]

Aaah I will take a look at all this later in the week (or tonight maybe), thank you so much! I can get this done/tweaked and a new release soon, surely!