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I was out of the arranging game for most of the last decade due to burnout and just not being able to harness any inspiration, and I'm back into it as hard as I ever was in the 2010s and I think I'm making my best stuff ever now. So yeah as long as the muse has grabbed you again you'll be fine!

Coming from a DKC2 aficionado such as yourself that's high praise!

Absolutely legendary!

In theory I would love to go to Linux because of the ethos and Microsoft sucks balls, but in practice I would need to see some extensive documented setup by someone who operates very similar to me and has installed all of my big heavy hitter stuff that I can't live without (Spectrasonics, Kontakt libraries + Native Access, iLok), and it works smoothly. Bringing up these issues seems to result in 2 responses, neither of which acceptable for me... a) tear your hair trying to get specific software to work and maybe suffer with a buggy, crippled workflow, or b) abandon your expensive paid Windows exclusives and switch to native FOSS solutions. For someone starting out who doesn't mind having access to the best of the best virtual instruments I think Linux is well worth a try, but someone with $10k of Windows-based software the cost-benefit just ain't there. That said I don't have to worry until 2032 because I'm using W10 LTSC IoT. I would LOVE for Linux to pop off before then. But then again the year of the Linux desktop has been coming every year for, what, the last 30 years? It's like cold fusion lol I would very much prefer to not ever touch Windows 11, which for my music production rig it's safe until 2032 (at which point whatever horror after W11 will make W11 look like the halcyon days haha). My gaming rig, I have until next October with that and then that's gonna be a reaaally interesting choice.

This is not an exhaustive list, just what I tend to use a lot of. DAW: Reaper (I'm a Reaper lifer, for whatever flaws it has the sheer customization ability makes it my forever DAW) Instruments Spectrasonics: Omnisphere, Trillian, Keyscape (I use these a ton, every project, 100% guaranteed) Native Instruments: Kontakt (I have more Kontakt libraries than I can count, for better or worse it's the industry standard) Best Service: Engine2 (worse than Kontakt but the Eduardo Tarilonte libraries are amazing) For drums, a combination of Stylus RMX, Battery 4 and Geist 2, Slate for rock/metal. Other than Omnisphere, some of my frequently-used synths: Sylenth1, z3ta+ 2, VB3 for organs Sample devs I really like: Heavyocity, Impact Soundworks, Eduardo Tarilonte, Orange Tree Samples, Soniccouture Effects MeldaProduction: MFreeFXBundle (fantastic value for money, I mostly use the EQ and compressor), MUltraMaximizer, MAutoDynamicEQ, MTurboReverbLE VallhallaDSP: Room, VintageVerb, Shimmer Cableguys: Snapback (amazing drum layering time-saver), ShaperBox3 Rob Papen: RP-Distort2 (crazy good distortion) Camel Audio: Camel Phat, CamelSpace (RIP) Native Instruments: Guitar Rig 5 Audio Damage: Vapor, Fluid, Liquid Monitoring: Slate VSX (this is very pricey but it's been hugely helpful with having only a terrible room to mix in, it's pretty much cut out the 5-10 car check revisions that were the norm for me) Have I forgotten a bunch of things here? Yes, yes I have.

I'm going to throw out the other option that I went with: Windows 10 LTSC IoT. You have to deal with purchasing a grey market key, as this is not technically meant for home users. Then you have to find a full ISO as the trial ISO from MS can't be upgraded to the full version without a lot of headache. Finding it is not hard but that may or may not be a deal breaker for you. But it's Win10 (with some of the unnecessary fluff stripped out) that will keep receiving updates until 2032. (!!) I recently migrated from 10 Pro to 10 LTSC IoT and all of my music software works fine. The only downside is since it's a version of Windows 10 that's basically be frozen in time in the past, other than security updates, new software could theoretically not work on it. But all of my stuff (including Kontakt 8) installed no problem, and I have a ton of VSTs.

It's the Orange Tree Samples Passion Flute.

What? But also, wut? And whut?

There's a lot more variation than I remember hearing in Discord, nice. I would agree with Audiomancer on the sustained saw notes, in addition to his suggestions you could also fade the note a bit as it's held.

I'm 100% in! The only question is, what source am I going to do. I have a couple of ideas.

I love the menacing soundscape of this!

Nice list! It's great to be able to make a big stack of things you've learned and realize how far you've come.

You know how it is, the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.

Oh yeah the track I'm doing is Donkey Kong 64 - Frantic Factory I can't promise I'll actually have it done on time, but if I do that's going to be the one

I have a spooky vibe remix that I was already going to do, I'll have to remember this.

Yeah. The thing is, even if Firefox doesn't have any nefarious motives we live in the age of companies updating their terms of use EXPLICITLY for nefarious reasons. lol. So to a privacy-conscious user base like Firefox's this policy change is gonna come with massive red flags even if there was no malicious motive by Mozilla.

Louis Rossman's take is more that Firefox is trying to comply with laws like California's, and that they went about this in the stupidest and most own-goal way possible.

That's pretty incredible it's been a quarter century already. I remember kinda finding OCR by accident. It was... "wow, people take well known game music, and, like, put their own spin on it? That's amazing!"

Nah. My W7 install is long gone.

This is really interesting, do you have your W7 machine connected to the internet or is it offline?

Unfortunately I think I'm out, and for a colossally stupid reason: I have literally forgotten what source track I was going to remix. I remember thinking it was a nice idea at the time, and then I didn't write it down anywhere and I can't remember it anymore lol.

I would love to do a Christmas tune for a second year in a row but that seems like an awfully big lift for me. ? We shall see.

Spectrasonics created a bunch of sample libraries way back in pre-Atmosphere days and Hans Zimmer guitars was one of them, and Mitsuda used it in this track. A lot of really old Spectrasonics stuff exists in Omnisphere.

Found the one you're talking about! Yeah this is a dead ringer for the Chrono Cross guitar, and looks like it's from the Spectrasonics Hans Zimmer guitars, which probably predated Atmosphere.

Damn, Atmosphere was around in 1999?