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Another quick update... "Into the Thick of It" has been claimed by @Thirdkoopa, who sent us a 5 minute long WIP in the blink of an eye. Welcome aboard!

It's probably more a case of inept self-marketing. I'm often called to do such types of marketing for clients at work and I guarantee you marketing is simply a completely different skill than business acumen all the same. You can make an awesome, legit product or service or excellently run a hotel or rental company and still want to make sure BUY IT TODAY is flashing in bright colors and point 144 text all across the page.

Yes. Yes.... YES. YES!

Straight Ahead Jazz Horns - Available Now! Impact Soundworks is proud to announce Straight Ahead Jazz Horns, created in collaboration with Straight Ahead Samples! This revamped library features over 75,000 samples of 13 solo brass and sax instruments perfect for jazz, funk, pop, R&B and more. Each instrument is deeply sampled with a variety of crucial techniques and ornaments, all totally customizable with our TACT system of articulation control and mapping. We're also introducing Smart Voicing technology, the easiest and most fluid way to create fully-voiced ensemble parts to harmonize your melodies. Available in our Multi Ensembles, all you have to do is play a chord in your left hand and play a melody in your right to get authentic, hand-written harmonies voiced for your ensemble - while keeping all articulation mapping, legato, and other settings. Smart Voicing is not only deeply customizable with different voicing and chord options, but can even be used with Kontakt's "Send MIDI to Outside World" feature, allowing you to send generated harmony MIDI data to any other plugin! Full Instrument List: Lead Trumpet Trumpet 2 Trumpet 3 Trumpet 4 Lead Trombone Trombone 2 Trombone 3 Bass Trombone Lead Alto Sax Alto Sax 2 Lead Tenor Sax Tenor Sax 2 Baritone Sax Multi Ensembles: 4 Trumpets 4 Trombones 5 Saxes All Brass Full Ensemble Pop Horns Key Library Features Over 75,000 samples, available as 16 and 24-bit Two distinct mic positions True legato and glissando for all instruments Up to 4x dynamic levels / 5x RR per note Total Articulation Control Technology (TACT) Extensive options and tweak settings for all instruments, ranging from legato/gliss timing to three (!!) separate dynamic x-fade types Ready-to-go FX rack (analog EQ, compressor, delay and convolution reverb) Smart Voicing multi ensembles Articulations (varies by instrument) Sustain, staccato, quarters, staccatissimo, fortepiano Falls, long falls, doits, scoops, flops Bends, shakes, turns, legato, gliss Availability The library is available now for Kontakt Player at MSRP $249 with a deep discount ($199 off!) for owners of the original Jazz Horns library by Straight Ahead Samples. Click here to read more and purchase! AUDIO DEMOS https://soundcloud.com/isworks/sets/straight-ahead-jazz-horns-demos LIBRARY WALKTHROUGH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLJUW1t92s SMART VOICING TEASER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeUmKPa7eeI

I need a job so I can start buying all these VST's. This looks incredible.

This looks pretty awesome, I wish I had more money xD

Just submitted my bonus. Definitely not MnP, but I figured since it's a bonus I had room to flex a little. Oh, and given the pre-requisite for next week's source, I looked up Rouge's Theme from SA2 and have had that stuck in my head since. lol

Because she asked for free and ours cost money.

Also a testament to how much I need a better keyboard stand XD But thanks!

Impressive as always, @DS394. I really like watching that keyboard bounce around in the video. I FEEL the force every time you knock that thing around - a lasting image of the passion and emotion in your playing style. Awesome! Oh, and love the blooper reel. Also a nice touch.

Yeah lol I kinda just added that in while noodling around with it in the arrangement process, give it that eerie ambient feel. I played Mars with an All-State Orchestra once and the vibes were so great. Any specific timestamps? Hesitation/stuttering is a consistent problem I have in my playing style, I probably just left them in so that the audio would match with the video, mistakes and all, but I could edit them out from the MIDI for an official audio file. Probably somewhere near the end of the "Super Metroid Theme" part in the finale, right? Well, I would, but I still have a submission that's supposedly been in the judging process since September (but hasn't been on the "To Be Judged" list yet), which is even more frustrating because with my current knowledge of OCR, I feel like it's just going to be rejected for quite a bit of variation from the source material.

EVAL ... was that Mars from Holst's 'The Planets' at 3:28 and 4:00? Nice touch. *ahem* Honestly, the performance is great, and the sources are cleverly arranged. If I had to critique it, there are one or two moments of hesitation that, while probably intentional, sound more like that - hesitation. It's super nitpicky, and something that others will probably not care about, so don't worry too much about it. Really not much else to add, though; if you submit this, it'd very likely pass, so send it off with my blessings.

i got you

C'mon guys and gals. Don't let me be the only one to submit something.