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I think I stopped at X3, as this music wasn't familiar to me - rechecked the original and indeed, I never played X4. Regardless, I really enjoyed this mix. It has a nice melody, and perhaps it's the combination of strings and bells, but it sounded like a holiday festive track in certain locations. Very nice! Definitely saving for my offline listening.

You might notice the front page has been updated and there are some new additions to our team - @Smittenden has taken Boss C from SF 64 and @Afilion has taken Titania from SF SNES. Welcome aboard! Smittenden has also offered to join our Audio Support team. Thanks again for your help! --- I've FINALLY updated the WIP spreadsheet - the track list still isn't in the right order, but everything should be current on there. Give a listen, comment on what you think! PM me if anyone doesn't have access. --- I know folks want to know about the voice work. I'm getting there, everyone - please be patient. --- @TheChargingRhino - First off, congratulations on your graduation! Could you please tell us a little about your plan for collaboration using SAC? Is there a track you are working on now?

Yeah, just let me know in a DM what you have a question about, and we'll investigate it.

I reached out to them J's a few times, saying "this project is dead, please post it according to the regular schedule". Whether or not a project is actually dead is not always easy to determine though, so YMMV.

You definitely don't hear many MM mixes like this. I really like it. Very RPG-esque

One more thing I looked the video you add in your previous post. The guy made a point but I was skeptical about the LUFS he gets, it seems wrong, very week. I mean Green Day at -18LUFS... there is no way they was so low... So, this morning I checked several CD I have, here the result: Coldplay_Square One (2005): Long Term: -9.6 LUFS ; TruePeak: +0.2 dBTP ; Short Term: -6.2 LUFS ; Loudness Range: 10.3 LU Arch Enemy_Blood On Your Hands (2007): Long Term: -4.6 LUFS ; True Peak: +0.8dBTP ; Short Term: -3.9 LUFS : Loudness Range: 1.1 LU Nirvana Unplugged_Come As You Are (1994): Long Term: -12.7 LUFS ; TruePeak: -1.1dBTP ; Short Term: -10.8 LUFS ; Loudness Range: 5.2 LU Daft Punk_One More Time (2001): Long Term : -12.6 LUFS ; TruePeak: +0.6dBTP ; Short Term: -10.1 LUFS ; Loudness Range: 7.2 LU And I checked one of my previous work: Serge Gainsbourg_Melody (1971, remastered 2016): Long Term -19.2 LUFS ; True Peak: -1.2dBTP : Short Term: -12.6 LUFS ; Loudness Range: 13.3 LU (it was the first time I listen on my new monitor, and it still sounds great) I'm not going to make any statement about the differences, it's normal Arch Enemy sounds like that, every type of music have their own code, it's just I don't think -4.6LUFS is necessary. So Green Day at -18LUFS, no way, so Michael Jackson so low... I don't think so, I pretty sure if I had the master tape, it will sound fucking great, but the result will be much more than it does shows it in his video.

I agree with you, we use too much compressors today, and I know what you're talking about because I remastered a lot of music from the 70's and even much older, and the sound are (very often) very excellent. It was more "sensible". The loudness war are now finished, but it happens for two reasons: - if it's louder, it seems better - if you want your music to be heard everywhere (phones, car ...), too much dynamic can make listening difficult or even betray your music if your low level is too low. I understand your view, but even the 70's sound had a loudness between -20 and -14LUFS (in general, there was much freedom about music production, including mix and master). A bit of compression is not the evil, it's just a tool and sometimes it's very helpful to make music more coherent, more "together" without taking away the natural. -23LUFS seems very low to me, you need a good HiFi system to enjoy it and it's not the way people listen today. Everyone does not feel concern by the loudness problematic and it's good to see someone cares about that. I'm curious to hear what you did.

Image Line finally released FL Studio 20 today after a couple of weeks of kicking around release candidates. As an FL Studio and Mac user, I cannot begin to describe how happy I am for native Mac support!

Ack, I thought the submission date was June 1st. Super sorry about missing it - I haven't been on the site enough to check periodically. I'll definitely vote, though - such a short source to do conservatively, I can imagine it was a tough one.