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Man, I hate this arrangement, lol. I love the fact that it's on OCR - there needs to be more music on here that challenges my tastes.

OC ReMix and Cyril the Wolf present X over Zero: Mega Man Metal! November 26, 2019 Contact: press@ocremix.org FAIRFAX, VA... OC ReMix is proud to present Cyril the Wolf's X over Zero: Mega Man Metal, Connor Pelkey's power metal tribute to the complex friendship and rivalry between Mega Man series' leads X and Zero. X over Zero features nine intense metal arrangements of tracks throughout the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series, and is available for free download at https://ocremix.org/info/X_over_Zero:_Mega_Man_Metal. "I wanted to show off a story, in brief, of two characters who were intertwined from the very first moments of Mega Man X until the final scene of Mega Man Zero 4," album director Connor Pelkey explained. "The lyrics are all inspired by the game's plot directly and (with just two exceptions) all are sang from the titular character's perspective. X over Zero was produced to help promote video game music, was made by fans, for fans, and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Capcom; all images, characters, and original compositions are copyright their respective owners. "I've always been a massive fan of the Mega Man X series, so it became sort of the mountain I wanted to climb," recounted Pelkey. "I felt confident that I could pull it off after writing 5 albums of original music, and wanted to make something to honor the video game music roots I'd come from. X over Zero marks OC ReMix's fifth album honoring the Mega Man franchise. Besides the officially Capcom-produced Mega Man 25th anniversary album For Everlasting Peace, the community has also created 2012's Mega Man X: Maverick Rising, 2011's Mega Man 9: Back in Blue, and Joshua Morse's solo album The Robot Museum. About OverClocked ReMix Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation and promotion of video game music as an art form. Its primary focus is ocremix.org, a website featuring thousands of free fan arrangements, information on game music and composers, resources for aspiring artists, and a thriving community of video game music fans. OC ReMix operates under the umbrella and sponsorship of Game Music Initiative, Inc, a 501c3 non-profit charitable organization (EIN: 81-4140676). ### Download it: https://ocremix.org/info/X_over_Zero:_Mega_Man_Metal Torrent: http://bt.ocremix.org/torrents/X_over_Zero_-_Mega_Man_Metal.torrent Comments/Reviews: https://ocremix.org/community/topic/48897/

@Master Mi I don't think upgrading will buy you much, to be honest - your existing 24-bit/192Khz UR44 (recording at max settings) is offering plenty of fidelity and headroom. Unless latency is an issue working at those settings, you're good to go... Bit-depth affects noise floor and can be misconstrued as "quality" when in reality there's more going on; you can go nuclear on this topic, but generally speaking: most folks listen at 16-bit, and professionals *tend* to record at 24-bit. 32-bit is considered a bit overkill and also makes file sizes much larger. Your current interface is still relevant. USB improvements have focused primarily on bandwidth, not latency. Basically, any given 3.0 interface might be faster than a cheaper 2.0 interface, but this is more because of the drivers themselves, and how they've been optimized. It is possible to buy a USB 3.0 interface with worse latency than a 2.0 interface, in other words - it depends more on the drivers. See https://support.focusrite.com/hc/en-gb/articles/208095469-USB-2-0-vs-USB-3-0 Loading speed of projects is based more on # of plugins, tracks, and samples being loaded, where the bottleneck is far more about disk I/O - an SSD helps with this, and USB 3.0 would only be relevant if it were the protocol for an external drive.... not for the audio interface. CPU/DSP use would be dictated by the quality of the interface drivers, not by USB 2.0 vs. 3.0. It's possible that you have a motherboard/system where the USB 3.0 bus & its driver are more efficient in general than the 2.0 bus, and its driver. In this case, absolutely, USB 3.0 might provide both stability AND latency improvements. However, you haven't mentioned any real problems with your current UR44 in this regard.... unless it's crashing, losing connectivity, or adding too much latency, or crackling, etc., then upgrading JUST for 32-bit & USB 3.0 doesn't make much sense. Ain't broke, don't fix, etc.

You'll come around.

@prophetik music"if this was on an OST for a game, there'd be someone out there who said that this is their favorite track." I kind of treated this like an OST deep cut, yeah! @Rexy"If anything, it quickly turned into the musical equivalent of a shitpost" I need to save this quote for the back of a release one day, like the John Stewart quote for The Book of Mormon playbill. You know, there's more humor in this than most of the stuff I do, so it's really cool to have it on OCR (especially after being a fan for almost 20 years!). And to be mentioned in the same write-up as Harold P. Warren's masterwork?!

Hey folks, long time no speak! Sorry for not being in touch, I’ve become useless at that, and no mistake. Takes two minutes to write something… Wonderfully though, Trism & Jorito have been in charge; and to be fair, between them and you lot, this album’s turned out far better than it could have with me at the helm. I have been squirrelling away on the art side, though, and am pleased to say the artwork for the album is now finally done. You can see it here (sorry, resizing seems to be an issue): I genuinely hope y’all like it, please let me know what you think. your involvement and perseverance on this project has brought it this far despite me, and I thank you all. Your opinions are valued. I’ve also been working on the assets for the promo site and handed them over to Jorito so he can do some cssourcery to showcase your sounds. We’re nearly over the line folks. Thanks once again for not bailing on the project, you're breathtaking!