OPN2BankEditor

A small cross-platform editor for the OPN family of FM synthesis soundchips (which were widely used in Sega Genesis (aka Mega Drive) game console), Fujitsu FM Towns home computer and NEC PC-88 and PC-98 home computer series).

CI Build status

Linux	Windows	macOS

BETA. Please report me any bugs and imperfections you have found

Download

• Stable builds: https://github.com/Wohlstand/OPN2BankEditor/releases
• Fresh dev auto-builds:
  • Windows:
    • Download for Windows x86_64 (7/8/8.1/10 with OPN2/OPNA emulators) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Windows x86 (XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10 with OPN2/OPNA emulators) (built by GitHub Actions)
  • macOS:
    • Download for macOS x64 (DMG) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for macOS x64 (ZIP) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for macOS ARM64 (DMG) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for macOS ARM64 (ZIP) (built by GitHub Actions)
  • Ubuntu:
    • Download for Ubuntu 24.04 for Qt5 x64 (DEB) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 24.04 for Qt6 x64 (DEB) (Plots unsupported) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 22.04 x64 (DEB) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 20.04 x64 (DEB) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 18.04 x64 (DEB) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 16.04 x64 (DEB) (built by GitHub Actions)
    • Download for Ubuntu 14.04 x64 (DEB) (Plots unsupported) (built by GitHub Actions)

How to build

Prerequisites

This editor requires following dependences on Linux-based systems. Debian and it's derivatives:

build-essentials
libasound2-dev
zlib1g-dev
cmake
qt5-default
qttools5-dev
libpulse-dev
libqwt-qt5-dev //OPTIONAL
libjack-dev //OPTIONAL

Arch and it's derivatives:

desktop-file-utils
hicolor-icon-theme
jack
libpulse
qwt
cmake
qt5-base
qt5-tools

Before you start the build, make sure you have also cloned submodules!

git submodule init
git submodule update

Building with CMake

Navigate to the project directory in a terminal and follow this build procedure.

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local ..
make
sudo make install

This will result in a software installation located in /usr/local, with program shortcuts, icons and MIME type associations.

Building with QMake

The easiest way is to open FMBankEdit.pro in the QtCreator software and run a compilation. Alternatively, you can also build manually on the command line.

Navigate to the project directory in a terminal and follow this build procedure.

qmake CONFIG+=release CONFIG-=debug FMBankEdit.pro
make

As alternate way you can open FMBankEdit.pro in the Qt Creator and build it.

Languages

As of version 1.3.1, this tool supports following languages:

• English
• Français (French)
• Русский (Russian)
• Polski (Polish)

Folders

• Bank_Examples - example bank files which you can edit and preview them
• Specifications - documentation of file formats used by this tool
• cmake - CMake-related scripts
• src - source code of this tool
• _Misc - Various stuff (test scripts, dummy banks, documents, etc.) which was been used in development of this tool