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...including a 50% price reduction for various other Native Instruments content. https://www.native-instruments.com/en/ And even better for me. I can get Kontakt 8 for just around €80 in an additional special offer on top of the already exaggeratedly good Black Friday deal, because I get an extra discount since I already own a Kontakt sample library called Shevannai (which lets you play some mystical elf singing voices with the keyboard or any other similar MIDI controller). I would have been athrilled if they had reduced the price of the Kontakt 8 to 200 euros. With my seemingly endless patience, I waited for it like a snapping turtle lying in wait for its prey. But this way, it's practically a gift. Quite the happiest Mi ever. )) Now I can get started right away next week finally reinstall my DAW (composition software) on the new 4 TB SSD hard drive running Windows 10 Pro, while I completely wiped the old Windows 7 Pro off the old hard drive and installed Linux Mint version 22.2 as a stable, fast, and secure backup system instead, and experimented a little with the new Linux operating system. After a short period of adjustment, Linux Mint is so incredibly good that I don't want to go back to Windows anymore: - Extremely user-friendly design, where all important processes such as driver installation run automatically at the beginning - and only when you want them to... - A thoroughly modular and freely customizable system where Microsoft doesn't tell you how to use your operating system... - No annoying online registrations and no shady background programs that transfer data to Microsoft and Co. and tap into your PC's performance resources... - No annoying, forced software frills like on Windows, which once again cannot be uninstalled in newer Windows versions and sometimes cause problems... Unfortunately, there is currently no reliable way that I am aware of to get my rather complex composition software, Samplitude Pro X4 Suite, to work fully under Linux, even though I was able to initiate an (albeit incomplete) installation process for my DAW software on Linux using PortProton, despite my beginner Linux skills. But I'll write about my extremely positive first impression of Linux Mint in a separate post. ... If everything continues to go according to plan, I'll be working on another musical project before Christmas and, in addition to the wide range of great VST instruments in Kontakt 8, I'll finally be able to try out and make full use of my new legendary VST instruments from 8Dio, such as the really beautiful Caribbean steel drum, the harmonica, the nice whistling VSTi, and the awesomre Zeus drum kit as VST instruments in my DAW Samplitude Pro X4 Suite and make full use of them. I'm really looking forward to it. ))

I'm always looking for more jazz to add to my jazz playlists. 👌 That chord at 2:17! Aadd4/F#? Not a music theory expert, but somethin' like that :-)

Glad you caught that! Clutch is a Maryland/DC-based band but the inspiration track (“Son of Virginia”) has more southern rock influences from bands like Corrosion of Conformity. Can’t recommend either band highly enough!

I'm getting a sick southern vibe from this! Really good vocals as well!

Power Dolls - Eclipse Remix | Astroverse Dimensions

coming along quite nicely! do i assume correctly you're gonna have another vocalist for the final render?

Voting Guidelines Teams were tasked with writing three mashup arrangements of two songs each, one from a Mega Man game and the other from a Mega Man Successor game. In order to make your vote, listen to the remixes and, for each pair, choose the remix that fulfills the following criteria (listed in order of importance): The remix arranges both source tunes in an interesting and identifiable way into one cohesive piece of music. The remix is well-produced within the conventions of the genre. The remix is enjoyable to listen to. Stream the remixes via Soundcloud or Download the Round 3 Remix Pack (MP3). For your reference, here are the source tunes for Round 3. Mega Man 4 vs. 30XX Cossack Fortress 2 Echoes Never Die (Endless Echo HV Mix) Mega Man X4 vs. Gravity Circuit Marine Base Architecti, Audi Nos (Final Battle) Mega Man Zero 4 vs. Mighty Gunvolt Burst Falling Down Ambition Paves the Way to Paradise

I was a fan of Blackthorne ever since I heard it on DoD. I'm glad it was recently posted on OCR, and it's perfect for this 8Track!

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ok, my tracks from ORC from bundeslang's list: 2 Reactor 18 Verküpfungsgenerierung 20 man i used to be boring 22 power hardcore 27 nasendorf 30 moonstuff 38 howard 41 kangaphant 102 nutfuck these are ALL missing on my end. bundeslang, if you have em, god bless you. and thanks for posting that list, anyway. moonstuff was so good. i'll wade thru the PRC tunes on another day.

I love the way the vox feel on this. A delicate, ethereal performance, and the way they're mixed just makes it sound like the singer is whispering right in my ear, and I mean that in the best possible way

My man, you say it like this and make it sound really weird, sus, illegal, perverted or otherwise untoward. 😛

quick co-sign with the gario and chimpa. when i turn this all the way down, the last thing i hear (for a while) is guitar. which is a shame, because this is a great arrangement and has loads of fun stuff happening alongside it. my particular favorite spot is coming out of the slithering 7/4 line around 1:30 into the power-metal section that's right after it - really fun section. the solo at 3:07 is also great. crank down the guitar on the opening and this is a definite pass, because the arrangement's nuts. this is IMO a very straightforward fix and won't require a ton of balancing to make it work. NO

I'm still loving this wonderful series of Donkey Kong mixposts, I'll accept about 20 more please.

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I really like the tempo shift in the middle. The ReMix goes hard and has some neat modulations! Somewhat heavy but maintains jnWake's jazz background.

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I'm always ready for some Argle music. Glad to see he was uh, 'convinced', to finish this.

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Prot did a great cover of this theme that put it on my radar (I owned the first game, but not the second.) Noting here that I've only heard the revised version. I'm familiar with Wake's work of course, yet I was very surprised by just how structurally interpretive the treatment ended up being here. Sections like 1:48-2:30 feature Ronin Op F and TheManPF creating tension and aggression, respectively, but the arrangement doesn't need to stay menacing with the source tune to have something to say creatively, so I'm glad Wake leaned into his penchant for dynamic proggyness, which never steers him wrong. YES

This is a wicked-cool arrangement! As Gario said there are so many excellent elements here and great performances. But I have to agree with Gario about the guitar and volume of leads. The guitar is oppressive in the 200-300Hz range. I don't think it needs to be brought down by a lot (a couple of db should do it), but the lead volumes are also way too quiet throughout the track, giving the guitar an even heavier feel. Gario is completely right to point out the completely different volume balance that happens at 3:07, that is the lead-volume that should be the target in the rest of the track. Leads should be heard! When you lower that guitar volume, I suspect the low-lows are going to sound a tad weak, you may want to bump the low-lows by a db or two to compensate and give the low end some beef. This is a great track and an easy YES but a volume rebalance must happen first. NO (please rebalance guitar and leads and resubmit asap)

Not as familiar with DKC3 as the others (like most, I imagine), but surprisingly I pretty easily recognized the source in this even before listening to the source myself - it's pretty distinct, and this arrangement does a good job representing it. There's a lot of cool harmonic switch-ups done throughout the arrangement, and I think they all work great. Overall, the arrangement is great, especially with all of the pad work and textures behind the guitar. Sample is soupy sounding for the guitar (doesn't really have any sense of strikes or strums), but it also chugs nicely so it works well enough. Speaking of the guitar, though, I think this is my main hang-up with the arrangement - the mix is just drowning in that guitar. There are so many cool things going on behind it, but I had to really strain to hear it all. I know it's an important instrument for this genre, but the mix needs to be better balanced between all of the other instruments, particularly the leads. Listen to 3:07 for the potential this arrangement has when the guitar isn't dominating over everything else - it's fantastic and you hear every detail of that lead. I like this, I think it would be significantly better with a better mix so I'm sending it back hoping you'll be able to clean this up. NO