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For your purposes you could also use Audacity. Note that it needs LAME in order to actually create those mp3 thingies. Since I use it anyway for editing and mixing and such it's all I really need. (It's free, too. Better than NeroWaveEdit.)

I've been trying to see for a while what I can do with just Anvil Studio, a software sequencer, a bunch of pretty good soundfonts, and a comp to run it all on.

3 is Ska Cha Cha from Sonic Rush.

I've got a ThinkPad Z61 with Vista, and honestly I don't think that any other OS would work as well. I even have Ubuntu to dual boot, but the drivers for the graphics card are incomplete with it so some things don't work right, like OpenOffice.org and MATLAB, so I don't think I'd use it for too much other than a safety net in the event that somehow I get infected with a serious virus. And if I can't use the few pieces of software with a Linux distro that I actually NEED, I'm sticking with Vista. The only problem that I have an issue with is Sonic R, and even that might just be due to the fact that the integrated graphics is just iffy overall for that sort of thing,

Howdy. I recently joined because I finally got around to torrenting the Project Chaos soundtrack, which is by and large quite brilliant. I've been doing some S3K stuff myself, including remixes of material from the PC version, but I honestly don't feel it's worth posting around here since I'm rendering handmade MIDIs (i.e., non-humanized) through MidiG with the aid of some free soundfonts and such. Sounds not very great in other words, but I wouldn't be averse to having someone else cover it. I'm a poor college student who composes in his free time; I don't have the materials or methods to do any serious performance and recording of this work, though the compositions in and of themselves are of decent quality at this point, I would say. (In fact, I think that Freezepop ripped me off!)

The Game Gear Sonic tunes don't normally get enough love. Also obscure Japanese-only Turn-based Strategy game The Hybrid Front. Junko Shiratsu + Naofumi Hataya = AWESOMENESS

This is wonderful. I'll be honest, it's not perfect, but I love it. Like some have said, I prefer the songs that are more tightly connected to the original pieces (which I guess just goes to show how much I like the originals), but it's all good. I certainly didn't expect the piano remix of ICZ, but then after 1001 Ice Cap dance remixes, something new is definitely a good thing. My biggest complaint? Where the hell is the music from the PC rerelease (Sonic and Knuckles Collection)?