Found 2 records for the .ROL file extension name
There are 1 other file types with the "ROL" extension name:
.rol - Actuate e.Report Designer report object library
.flac - Audio files encoded by Flac - free lossless audio codec
.amr - Adaptive Multi-Rate compressed audio
.m4a - MPEG-4 compressed audio file
.gp3 - Guitar Pro 3 project
.m4p - iTunes Music Store audio file
.ogg - Ogg Vorbis audio file
.ape - Monkey's Audio lossless audio compression format
.cda - CD Audio track
file extension ROL - AdLib Visual Composer music data file
File extension ROL description:
Although ROL music format is nowadays known as one of the popular music format for the AdLib's FM synthesizer, originally it appeared for Roland's synthesizers. Nobody knows who formulated this format for which hardware/software, but it got the way to the AdLib's standard when AdLib Visual Composer applied ROL as its music format in 1989. The instrument data is managed on INS/BNK files separately.Associated applications to file extension ROL:
Company / developer:
Nullsoft
Winamp with AdPlug plugin
Nullsoft Winamp is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music and video player for Windows. Winamp supports MP3, CD, WAV and other audio formats, custom appearances called skins, plus audio visualization and audio effect plug-ins. additional features including free-form skins, a new decoder, built-in cross fade, and an advanced Media Library.
AdPlug is a free, cross-platform, hardware independent AdLib sound player library, mainly written in C++ and released under the LGPL. AdPlug plays sound data, originally created for the AdLib (OPL2) and Sound Blaster (Dual OPL2/OPL3) audio boards, directly from its original format on top of an emulator or by using the real hardware. No OPL chip is required for playback.
AdPlug itself is just the backend to many different audio player frontends, which are also being developed here. There are plugins for popular audio players, like Winamp and XMMS, as well as stand-alone players for many different systems available.
Company / developer: Ad Lib Multimedia
This program featured a mouse-driven black & white interface on CGA graphic cards. It featured one screen which displayed a pianoroll, not unlike current MIDI sequencers. You could input notes with your mouse. It featured two modes, in the first mode you could use 9 melodic voices only and in second mode you could use 6 melodic and 5 percussion voices.
It sounded incredible at that time. If you have played DOS games that supported the Ad Lib card, you could get an idea what kind of music you can create with VC. It was impossible to create new sounds in Visual Composer, you had to buy Ad Lib Instrument Maker in order to do this.
Ad Lib also released the MIDI Supplemental Kit. This added compatibility for the Roland MPU401 MIDI-interface to Visual Composer, which meaned that you could use your MIDI-keyboard to input notes.
The songs created with Visual Composer are saved in Ad Lib's own ROL format. You could use the Ad Lib Jukebox (bundled with Ad Lib MSC cards) program to play them back, or you could use Ad Lib Pop-Tunes /sold seperately, this was a program to playback ROL files in the background, while you worked in DOS/.
Sadly Ad Lib Multimedia went bankrupt.