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Sega. Just - Sega. (THIS PART DELETED OUT OF SHEER WTF-NESS, SERIOUSLY. DUMBEST THING I HAVE EVER SAID...) And Daytona USA... just... holy crap! Takenobu Mitsuyoshi is just what this game needed. It's optimistic, catchy, and just plain awesome. I want to download the XBLA version just for the music. I'm not sure I can describe it any better. You guys continue the love for Mitsuyoshi-san.

Might have to dip my feet in the Hylian Lake for this one!

Looks like I got all my work done just in time, can finally get the last parts of my newer WIP done in time for the deadline.

Have you thought about advertising PRC on the OC Remix Discord group. It could be a good way to get more participation and advertising for the competition.

Funny you should mention these things. One of my rewards tiers includes request-a-trick (juggling torches while shirtless, for example, would be a fine request). One of my goals if I make enough money is to buy a set of chainsaws. Dead serious, not kidding: if I make enough money from this, I will buy chainsaws and juggle them.

Well, the good news is you already seem to have a pretty strong intuitive sense for how to balance your sounds (and also just how to write music that works). In that track you linked, only the saxophones really stick out to me as bad. That being said, you can't get free saxophones that sound better than that; it's just not gonna happen. Anything that would sound better would take a lot of work, and that's work that someone would sell it for to make money on.

I agree with everything Gar says except the first half of this. Spend the most amount of money on the highest quality stuff you can afford right now or save up a bit to get the highest quality stuff you can then. It's true that poorly arranged, badly sequenced compositions are gonna sound bad whether you're using the best of the best or the worst of the worst, but I'm a victim of this frighteningly common mentality that if you're inexperienced, you should start with the low-end stuff and work your way up. It's music; not surfing or learning to ride a bicycle with training wheels where you can outgrow your board or bike. Would you rather be a n00b with the best stuff out there and then become a top-tier composer and still have the best samples money can buy or would you rather become a god-tier composer with utter shit samples and now have to spend MORE money (quite easily thousands depending) on quality samples? The choice is clear, to me. I know it sounds dramatic, but this has become one of my greatest regrets in life. I bought all this low-end shit and then some mid to higher-end stuff like ProjectSAM and in the last while, I've really been focusing on improving my orchestration and arranging skills and it's made me realize I should've just gone with the ProjectSAM or maybe Cinesamples stuff to begin with, because now the cheaper, old, "entry" stuff is useless and money essentially wasted.

Almost all free samples are going to be either crap or require you to give some personal information in exchange for some small instrument. I've spent years amassing my sample collection and figure i've easily spent over $3,000+ to get everything I need/want (this is ONLY counting sample libraries and sample based synths). Took about 6 years to get it all. You can bypass much of the collecting by going with East West's Composer Cloud which gives you a ton of samples for a low monthly fee. Of course you don't actually own any of them so when you stop paying all of your projects are going to break if they are not bounced to audio. http://www.soundsonline.com/composercloud FYI samples can be a hefty investment so it might be better to start off with NI's Komplete so you have something useable to learn with. Poorly sequenced/mixed samples aren't going to sound any better than poorly sequenced/mixed soundfonts or synth patches. If you decide you want to start playing around with a sampled instrument start with one or two you know you are going to need to achieve what you want and learn each of them one at a time. Each library has it's own learning curve and method of developing a realistic performance so it's going to take more time than you might expect to get all the details down. good luck!

HEY EVERYONE, THE KICKSTARTER FOR THIS IS AVAILABLE Look at that amazing logo and cover art! Listen to the fantastic songs! Back this project so we can justify the Bee-playing-a-saxophone SECRET BOSS! Also there is an epic new build you should download and play (link on the kickstarter page)

Just submitted my track. Had a lot of fun playing with the 2 source tracks, they were a great combination! Also big shout out to @HeavyViper who was able to record the guitar parts for me at the drop of a hat. Thanks a lot mate!

Not implemented yet. It's coming though. One of the things actively being discussed by staff right now.