Time for some new updates. The v2.2.0 software is ready and contains two new features that I will talk a bit about today.

MIDI CC Mapper

The MIDI CC Mapper that I've been talking about for a long time is ready! You can use it to map MIDI controls to Synthesizer controls. By default OPL Studio maps volume, panning and modulation to channel volume, panning and vibrato. But now you can map additional controls for example to control the vibrato rate and depth, tremolo, or have direct control over OPL patch parameters. 

The MIDI CC Mapper can be found in the Synthesizer Setup app. To add a new control simply click add and choose the MIDI control and the synthesizer control where it gets mapped to. To make your life a bit easier you can click on Sample MIDI, change the control and OPL Studio will detect it as the MIDI control to be mapped.

With mappings for OPL parameters in place you can now also use your MIDI equipment in the patch editor to change parameter values.

Auto Save

In the last decade we've become used to applications that auto save our work. You type a note in a text editor like Sublime Text, you close the app and when you open it again a day later your note is still there, even though you didn't explicitly save it. This is really handy and it started to annoy me that OPL Studio didn't do this, especially while working on the MIDI mapper. Each time I changed something in the code OPL Studio would reboot and forget all of the changes I had made. This had to change!

You now have the option to auto save your current session to the SD card. Each time you close one of the app modules OPL Studio will write your current session to the SD card. When OPL Studio restarts and it finds a previous session on the SD card it will restore the session and you can immediately continue where you left off. 

Auto save is enabled by default, but can be disabled in the OPL Studio settings.

Next Software Update

The v2.2.0 software update that includes the MIDI CC Mapper and Auto Save feature will be available two weeks from now when I get back from holiday.

3D Printable Stand

The other day I was contacted by an OPL Studio user who wasn't happy that the unit was sitting flat on his desk. So what he did was design a stand that clips around the sides of OPL Studio to have it sit at an angle. He contacted me to share the model and I must say I'm not sure how I could've lived without it. The two legs fit snugly around the unit and it makes it really comfortable to use, plus it just makes the unit look nicer.

You can download the STL for the stand here to give your OPL Studio some legs. You might as well want to flip the stylus holder when you're using this stand. You can do this by 3D printing the stylus holder model and mirroring it around the Y-axis in your slicer. You can find all parts for the OPL Studio enclosure on Printables.