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I use Soundforge, Reason and Sonar. Is there a way I could port my Reason soundbanks and ReFills into a Linux program. And is there a way in Linux to use DX plugins (I got Waves Diamond Bundle and it cost me a lot, so I don't wanna throw it away).

http://www.laurasmidiheaven.com/0vg/Nintendo-SuperMarioBros..shtml This is the link to the original. Bowser's castle midi.

Just wanted to clear something up here. I never use synth guitars, I prefer to record my own. I figured it would be obvious while listening to the song. God I just wish negative criticism was more constructive. Before we go on about the song being too much original material, I will tell you how I did it. Keep in mind that there are two instruments in the original, one we will call the bass and the other the drones. 0:00 - 0:10 -> Bass line from the source used as an organ intro 0:10 - 0:22 -> Complete original material 0:22 - 0:33 -> aHa ! Same complete original material with the drones played on guitar added to it. 0:33 - 1:20 -> Basically the source with an added drum beat. 1:20 - 2:00 -> Original material following the chromatic structure of the source 2:00 - 2:25 -> Bass line from the source spread over 8 measures, supposed to be recognizable 2:25 - 2:47 -> Same thing with the added drones played on guitar. 2:47 - 3:23 -> Heavy guitars playing my original material with a solo lead guitar playing the bass line from Kondo's song as a melody. 3:23 - 4:00 -> Guitar solo over my heavy rhythm guitar and the melody still playing in background. 4:00 - 4:15 -> One second original material / one second drones. So 52 seconds of original material always resolving on something from Kondo. This is about 20% of the song. Anyways I'm not here to prove anything to anybody, just wanted to clear things up, because I spent weeks trying to write something interesting with a 3bars source material without even a melody, and I don't appreciate people bashing on my song without an apparent or justifiable reason.

One of the best mixes on this site, methinks. The shuffle groove is just awesome and the way the songs progresses, especially how the solo blends well with the rest of it, really is something to credit djpretzel for.

M. Bison in SF Alpha 3 for GBA or the two last bosses in Ninja Gaiden 1 are hell

holy shit. I'm just listening to it for the second time now and.... ouch. My ass is definitely and meticulously being kicked. Of course I'm biased since this is Xenogears

well obviously the song is good, I'd even say great but this has nothing to do with Steve Vai man... Since everything positive have already been said about this song, I'll say what I think could have used some improvement. First of all, the drum sounds are not very good; it looks like the guy went for a true drum feel but didn't succeed very well. Maybe that's just my impression. Second: the samples from the rhythm track aren't up to par either, but well that's a pretty old mix. I still love those "icy" glockenspiel things going on. Third: I don't really like the guitar tone... too loud, too compressed and too chorused, but that's all too subjective. Four: Nothing overly original about this song except he did away with the triplet march style and went for a 16th feel in place. Of course there's always the solo and the break after. At 2:40, I don't really like what's going on with the guitar (beginning of the solo). In fact I don't like the first twenty seconds of it, but the rest is purely great. The slow break after the solo totally HAD to be there, there's no way around it so props for that. Now I'm just reacting to people saying it's the best music ever. When I say I don't like something in this remix, it doesn't mean I think it's crap, it means I think it could have been better and therefore this is not a perfect, amazing, the best ever mix. In terms of guitar playing, I can clearly see a distinction between Ailsean and known pros like Steve Vai or Joe Satriani or Mark Knopfler, whereas I think McVaffe's Drum'n Bass grooves or Blind's trance are up to par with the pro ones. So to sum up, I have to say in all humility as a guitar player that I do not think I could have done something as good as Ailsean's work (cause we have to admit, he's got talent) with this ReMix, but I still don't think it's perfect.

This is my favorite mix on the whole ocremix site yet. The last drum solo gets my grooving like nothing else, and I listen to it at least 2 times a day. Simply great, I cannot believe this guy does this for free !