Today I released new v2.3.0 OPL Studio software. It took a while to get this one finished, cause being sick 3 times in 2 months doesn't make you very productive. Anyway, in this release the big new feature is the drum sequencer. 

The old drum sequencer has been with OPL Studio and left mostly unchanged since the beginning of the project and it was showing a bit. The new drum sequencer is a lot nicer to use with a piano roll style editor where all drum tracks are visible, instead of just one at a time. Other new features that I will probably bring to the melody sequencer as well are the extend sequence button and looped recording.

The extend sequence button is used to increase the number of steps in the sequence and at the same time copy the last 16 steps to the newly extended part of the sequence, saving a lot of time copying parts.

Looped recording is added so a MIDI recording will wrap around to the beginning of the sequence instead of stopping at the end. This works better when, for example, you have the metronome enabled and you're getting a feel for the beat while the recording loops, or if you want to add additional drum sounds to the sequence.

You can see the new drum sequencer in action in the video below.

End of Teensy 3.6 Support

Version 2.3.0 also marks the end of the software releases that support the Teensy 3.6. The 3.6 is too limited to run OPL Studio at its full potential and besides that, OPL Studio now includes a Teensy 4.1 in every order so it doesn't make much sense anymore to keep support going for it.

Download

The new software can be downloaded from the OPL Studio project page at www.cheerful.nl.