Does anybody know of a PC98-style FM music maker? (especially OPNA?)

[unicode787plus]

I have listened to three YouTube videos of three different "8-bit" remixes of TH06's "U.N. Owen Was Her?".

One of the versions was made with a tool called GXSCC (doesn't really sound 8-bit according to some folks):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LtGAA2SRI8
Another one was made with a NES/Famicom chiptune maker called FamiTracker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBOr_Vgcg0A
And the third one was apparently made from scratch using only squares, triangles and pulses in FL Studio:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-RhITg3kqE

But so far I haven't seen any 16-bit rendition/remix of "U.N. Owen Was Her?" (or of any other modern Touhou theme) except perhaps this one made from scratch with Mario Paint Composer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qGkfmttbZw
And so far Google has returned me nothing about a program for making your own PC98-style FM music that sounds like music from TH02-05 (think of it as a 16-bit FM equivalent of GXSCC or FamiTracker). If there were such a tool, I could use it to make an OPNA FM-86 remix of not just "U.N. Owen Was Her?" but any other Touhou theme. Imagine a whole TH06 Music Room, remixed TH05-style!

I am sure there must be some such thing as an "OPNA chiptune maker" (or "OPNA tracker" as other folks would prefer to call), because some doujin music circle called FMPSG has done original OPNA-style songs and even a few OPNA-style remixes of some obscure game-music tracks, as evidenced by these videos which happen to be actually samples of their latest remix albums:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZcG0SnQvFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JS6F269Oog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUThEeR8U7k
However, with Google returning nothing helpful about such an OPNA chiptune maker, this question might remain unanswered...

[Momiji]

Ah, looks like they recompose the songs in a tracker.  Basically you use something like Hoot to sample each instrument into individual note samples, load them into your tracker of choice (like OpenMPT), and used them to recompose each channel.

Now, if there _were_ a PC9801 sequencer available, I'd be very interested in it. =O

This is something I'm working on right now, it's Love-coloured Magic.  It's still very much incomplete (have to redo the RSS and first two SSG channels), but it sounds pretty good so far.  It's an IT file, You can load it in MPT as well, 'though I don't know about older trackers (even Impulse Tracker may not load it =/).  I sampled this via Hoot.

( Only for release within MoTK, btw. =X  I cut the sample quality down enough so I could upload it here, so it won't sound okay until I finish it and release the full version. )

[saiyoucho]

That sounds pretty cool. =D
What did you make it in? The program you linked to?

[Momiji]

Yep yep.  I used to do a lot of Sonic music awhile ago, I still have some floating around.

Also, just started Alice in Wonderland.  I'll get working on that once I finish Love-coloured Magic.

BTW, it really helps to have a soundcard that can record "what you hear".  I use an SB Audigy (hardware mixer FTW) and Audacity to record Hoot, load the resulting wave files into OpenMPT and cut it up into individual notes and instruments.  Pretty tedious but it works.

[unicode787plus]

I believe I have found something that might be helpful:

TFM Music Maker
http://shiru.untergrund.net/software.htm

But it's still a tracker, not an M-file PMD generator

[Momiji]

Woah!  It's actually a software FM synth-based tracker. =O  You can generate your own instrument preset.  I guess the only was to figure out the presets is to look in hoot's Driver Info, or in the music files.

It doesn't look like it can do full Soundboard emulation, but at least either 6xFM or 3xFM/3xSSG.

Anyway, this is awesome.  I've been looking for something like this for years. XD