x3vREC
x3v Instrument Bank editor
Written in: Visual Basic 4.0 / 6.0
Release date: 2009/01/05
Downloads
Binary (Win32)
Binary (Win16)
Sonic 3 Universal Voice Bank x3v-File
The beginning!
On the very beginning of the year 2009, Nineko has inspired me to start learning to use Microsoft Visual Basic.
So I started out with Visual Basic 6.0 and then took Nineko's X3V Voice Bank format, since I thought it was pretty good as a starter project. After a lot of headaches about some mistakes that made the debugger go nuts on me, I finally finished a working version. Tinkered on it here and there, even added a conversion to standard SMPS voice banks and YMX voice banks and the ability to extract voices. Nineko helped me on the YMX conversion code since I made some blatant mistakes there. Well. I was proud of my app, really, it being the first app in VB I ever got further than just placing a button in a window with.
Eventually, we got into a discussion about 16-Bit Windows and Visual Basic. I got myself a copy of Visual Basic 4.0 16-Bit, and after changing the project's and form files' internal version number to "4.00", I got it working under Windows 3.1 too!
So, this is not only my first VB6 app, no, but there is a 16-Bit and a 32-Bit version! Place the executable in your x3v directory, and toy around with it.