FamiStudio NES Music Editor

FamiStudio is very simple music editor for the Nintendo Entertainment System or Famicom. It is designed to be easier to use than FamiTracker, but its feature set is also much more limited.

Features:

• Modern DAW-style UI with sequencer and piano roll, no hexadecimal anywhere
• Full Undo/Redo support
• Export to various formats (WAV, NSF, FamiTone2, FamiTracker)
• Import from FamiTracker TXT
• Basic MIDI input support
• Low CPU usage (Direct2D for graphics, XAudio2 for audio)

Download

FamiStudio is available for Windows and macOS.

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Installation Instructions:

• On Windows simply download and run the installer (.msi). A shortcut to FamiStudio and the included demo songs will be added to your Start Menu. You will need install the VS2015 runtime (x86) which you can download here.
• On macOS, download and uncompress the file anywhere and the launch FamiStudio app. The demo songs and included in the zip. The app is unsigned and might require you to ignore a few warning and you may need to grant it a few permissions if you are running Catalina.

Demo Songs

A few demo songs are included in the installation folder (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\FamiStudio):

• After The Rain (by Shiru, included with FamiTone2)
• Danger Streets (by Shiru, included with FamiTone2)
• Mega Man 2 - Stage Select (my approximate recreation)
• Journey To Silius - Intro (my approximate recreation)
• DuckTales! - The Moon (my approximate recreation)
• Castlevania 2 - Bloody Tears (my approximate recreation)

Limitations / Known Issues

• No PAL support
• No copy-paste support (other than pattern instancing)
• Very few effects are supported

Documentation

Please visit documentation page for detailed instructions.

Getting Started

Here is a 10 minute video tutorial to help you get started. Please keep in mind that it was made with version 1.0.0, so some things might look slightly different.

Change Log

Version 1.2.1:

• Windows 7 hotfix

Version 1.2.0:

• macOS support
• Extended note range to 8 octaves
• Volume tracks support
• Release envelopes & release notes
• Hi-DPI support (100%, 150% and 200% scaling on Windows, Retina on macOS)
• Config dialog
• MIDI improvements (device selection and note release)
• Improved NSF memory usage
• Misc bug fixes

Version 1.1.0:

• New export dialog
• Added WAV export
• Added FamiTracker Text export (see the wiki for limitations)
• Added NSF export (see the wiki for limitations)
• Bug fixes and code refactoring.

Source Code

The entire source code is available on GitHub.

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