FM Composer - A sound & music creation tool

[Phanoo]

Download link http://fmcomposer.org/download.php
Main page : http://fmcomposer.org

Hello,

Today I'd like to show you the project I'm working on since a long time : FM Composer. It's a software allowing the user to design their own sound using FM synthesis and create a song with them.
It's made for musician/composers but also for developers, as the musics created with this tool can be integrated in any other app and altered in real-time, allowing for high degree of interactivity (dynamic instrument changes, tempo changes, reverb, sync'ed and evolving music...)


Sound demo and how to design an instrument :

It uses SFML for all input, drawing, events... I only slightly modified the library to get a sharper font rendering and add file drop support on Windows.

You can easily add notes with your (computer) keyboard :


Instrument creation page. Quite a lot of parameters, but it's all there without submenus for fast editing once you are used to it :


A simple piano roll view, with limited editing features but always fun to have :



The sound engine is made from scratch, it's a bit like 80's synths that use FM but in more powerful.
FM Composer is released with a lot of pre-made instruments, covering the whole General MIDI set, so it can import MIDIs without any problem.

Download here if you want to give it a try : http://fmcomposer.org/download.php

There is a complete documentation with tutorial on the website too

Of course the program is free and open-source, see the GitHub : https://github.com/stephanedamo/fmcomposer (probably not the best code, but I'm open for improvements !)

[Mario]

Beep. beep, detected someone with too much free time.   Sounds (pun intended) awesome, going to give it a spin later.

Edit: There are no project or build files anywhere to be found?

[eXpl0it3r]

Wow this is amazing!

I'll definitely have to play around with this some more!

[Phanoo]

Thanx !

I haven't uploaded the project files, i'll add the .vcproj but i'm not sure if it contains relative or absolute paths

Beep. beep, detected someone with too much free time.

Unfortunately I Don't, especially with a full time job, but it can be done, by sleeping less

[Hapax]

Impressive. This is very nice indeed.

My own music stuff is nowhere near this complete or featured so kudos!

[Tank]

Awesome!

[Phanoo]

Thanks guys !

I just made a little tune with it, it's the first time I use it when I have the inspiration to compose something (I usually launch OpenMPT since it's the tracker I use since 10+ years)
Found two bugs by using it (already corrected in 1.3)

[Mongo13]

Great tool! I will give it a try. I am a music composer of royalty free music and this kind of tools is very inspiring and it seems that it is easy to master.. thank you.

Music Screen composer.

[Phanoo]

Thanks ! Don't hesistate to ask me for any question or feature request

I'm very happy with SFML, approx 600 downloads and nobody had any problems running the program on their computer.


One of my users created this mario remix :



And I did a little cover of this famous boss music from FF8 :

[Ceylo]

Dunno how to tell and I a newbie in music composition/generation but… it just looks (and sounds) awesome!

[Phanoo]

Have you tried it ? It may be a bit confusing if you never user trackers or DAWs, but I think you can rapidly get some results by looking at the existing songs. A good basis would be to look at Dustin Stroh's songs, he shared his source files here : http://fmcomposer.org/resources.php

Apart from that, new features were added : like mutitrack export, high-density screen support, lowered CPU usage...

A new song created with FM Composer by another user : QIem2E&list=PLHv0qOxpb31967tQHFbwWplSMPTgd152H[/url]


Enjoy!

[Phanoo]

FM Composer songs can be easily played in any C/C++ software

https://github.com/stephanedamo/fmcomposer/tree/master/src/fmengine

I wrote a short manual on how to use FM Composer's FM engine in your applications.

It should be very easy to integrate into any SDL/SFML/other app.

You basically create an instance of the FM player, tell it to play a .fmcs file, and that's it. The FM engine can render classic stereo 16 bit audio data that is easily sent to a custom SFML audio stream (see https://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.0/audio-streams.php )

I'm waiting for the first games that will use this

[eXpl0it3r]

That's pretty neat, something I wondered whether it would be easily possible.

[Marukyu]

Upon reading the title, this project immediately caught my interest. It looks (and sounds) amazing!

I made a set of modifications to get FM Composer to compile on Linux using CMake (thanks to Phanoo's great efforts for cross-platform compatibility, few changes were needed to port the program!). Feel free to check it out if you're interested: https://github.com/Marukyu/fmcomposer

My fork is still somewhat "quick-and-dirty", being essentially the minimal set of changes to get the program to compile successfully on my machine (possibly even breaking the Windows build in the process), but I hope that some of you will find a use for it anyway. ^^

[eXpl0it3r]

Maybe makr a pull request to get your changes upstream?