At the heart of BlastBeats is a vintage FM chip called YMF-262 also known as the OPL3 chip & previously found in computer sound cards of the early 90s.
These chips were notoriously hard to program and were rarely used to their full potential. However, they can produce surprisingly rich beautiful and utterly dirty sounds with a bit of exploring...
By putting so many parameters within easy reach BlastBeasts makes it fun and easy to master the signature sound of the DOS era!




https://www.twisted-electrons1.com/blastbeats?ref=limbic

 

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599€ overpriced for this kind of build quality
Badly thought out box. How should a user edit sounds of different synths? Operator sliders remain in the same position were user edited the sound of the previous synth.
I'll stick to OPL3 emulators
VST https://github.com/jpcima/ADLplug
VST https://github.com/bsutherland/JuceOPLVSTi
Tracker https://openmpt.org/features


Edit: One more way to get OPL3 sounds to your musiс http://fm801.kewl.org/app/about/
Edit2: forgot about two more trackers:

RAD https://www.3eality.com/productions/reality-adlib-tracker
Adlib Tracker II: http://adlibtracker.net/ https://archive.org/details/AdlibTrackerII​

 

Last edited: Dec 13, 2021

listen to OPL3 in all it's glory
Stéphane Picq - Dune soundtrack much better than generic Hans Zimmer

 

Thank you Synclavier .