Vgm2pre

VGM2PRE is a program to save instrument presets from VGMs to formats usable in various trackers and sequencers. It was originally written by NeoLogiX in C++.

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Capabilities

YM2612 (FM): Presets from VGMs with YM2612 data can be dumped to VGI, TFI, TYI, EIF, DMP, and Y12 instrument formats, as well as the GYB instrument collection format.
YM2612 (sampled): Dumping of sampled audio from YM2612 VGMs is currently not supported, though there are plans to include it in the future.
YM2151 (FM): Dumping of FM presets from VGMs with YM2151 data to the OPM instrument collection format is slated for the next major release of VGM2PRE.

Alternatives

r57shell at SpritesMind Forums wrote a tool, YM2612 Instrument Converter, to convert between the above YM2612 instrument formats; that tool assumes the user has instruments in these formats already rather than simply dumping them anew from VGMs. It also supports converting to/from GEMS and SMPS format files, though to/from GYB is not. It is currently only known to handle YM2612 format presets.