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Very sad news to share that ReMixer Justin Lassen passed away yesterday, Feb. 22nd, due to natural causes. He was 39 years old. There's a GoFundMe that's been established to help his family pay final expenses. If you're financially able to, please consider supporting it.
* https://www.gofundme.com/f/remembering-justin-lassen
Along with being a multi-decade career musician, we just posted his debut ReMix from Earthworm Jim this past December, and he participated in two community albums from the BadAss series.
Rest in Power, Justin.
* https://ocremix.org/artist/17920/justin-lassen 
 

rofl, dude, leave the mouseclick. that's classy. or classic, rather. whatever, either way, that's awesome.
seriously, that's trademark.
Very pretty vibe. Nice warm synths, nice cool drum groove. Very pretty vocals. Giving me chills, now.
Well, I guess I'm gonna stop there. I have no qualms with the mix--it meets the guidelines as far as I can hear, and it gave me little happy warm tinglies.
Welcome Aboard

Big update everyone... today we hit 100%!!! The project is now officially funded. Huge, huge thanks to OCR for the help.
That said, we have 7 days to go, and to celebrate, today I added a new stretch goal. Help me get to the next level, and the next remix I do as a post-launch bonus track will be... 
"Baba Yetu"
By Christopher Tin, from Civilization IV: 
 It's been requested a lot over the years actually, but man... a hard one to do justice to. But let's keep this funding momentum going over the next few days, and I'll make it happen.  
Thanks again!!!

Bumping bc I'm seriously shocked this hasn't been 200% funded already. 

Mazedude is awesome <3

Setting up digital licensing is pretty easy through https://loudr.fm. Something to consider if you want to try monetizing your covers.
 
 

Fixed that for you

The sound design possibilities of this thing are totally worth the $150, in my opinion. I'd be plunking that down even if I wasn't part of the beta/preset team, knowing what I do about how useful it is!

$100 is what Chipsounds costs. And this has WAY more to offer than Chipsounds. (I am a long-time Chipsounds user). 

Fixed that for you

Fixed that for you

Very cool tune, I love the mixed time signatures!  Very clean sounding mix!

I play Threes a LOT. This remix is awesome. Really cool electronic take on the jazzier source. Syncopation is KILLER.
YES

I don't know about puns but I called dibs on the stupidest names.

Or maybe we could stop discussing this and hyping how awesome this looks?
I personally cannot wait to see the "puns" djp and zircon put for the presets. ^^

I always wondered what the llama did to deserve it.
Anyway, my interest in this - apart from a sound library that leaves Mega Drive well-represented - is seeing how capably it can emulate the sort of things that happen with chips that is more difficult to capture through samples, even though authenticity is only one feature of this project. For example, LFO control should obviously be a given, but MD's chip has a small range of possible settings that I think should be simple to reproduce. Some of Streets of Rage's instrument sounds are distinct partly because of the LFO settings, and the .tfi rip won't cover that. In fact, the reason I've been missing for a while is a heavy research project definitively and quickly identifying MD instrument use, which happens to be totally relevant to this product: the TFI collections out there are nearly useless without proper vetting and organization.

As the ISW tech support guy, I had nothing to do with the development of SAC other than general cheerleading.  That being said, I can't wait to answer YOUR emails when you can't figure out how to extract a RAR file!
 
(Also this library is going to be awesome and I can't wait to start playing with it)

This just in, zircon and djpretzel claim to be part of the OCR community, BUT DO THEY REALLY WHIP THE LLAMA'S ASS?

Yes, and also... yes. We don't use direct game names, but for many of the Genesis sounds specifically, you can easily guess based on preset euphemisms/references. Recreating most types of SNES/Genesis sounds is entirely doable, and with the other systems, all the core waveforms are there. It's pretty darn flexible and has pretty wide coverage.
So let me get this straight... any time the staff & founder of OCR want to put OCR's name on something, we need "clearance" from "hundreds" of people?
Have you noticed that you're the only one expressing this perspective? That's why I asked others who might agree to chime in - it's so bizarre and out of left field that I'm genuinely curious if anyone else feels the same, or similarly. If as the founder/president of OverClocked ReMix, LLC I have to get "clearance" from "hundreds" of other people before doing something like this, I'd quit. So would you, if you were in my shoes. There ARE decisions that involve/require community feedback, namely when we do anything that affects the submissions process or content policy. We didn't get "clearance" from "hundreds" to run our FF6 kickstarter, or for that matter to release Random Encounter, which YOU directed. I'm not going to throw insults at *you* personally, but your *position* on this matter *appears* to be hypocritical & inconsistent... it's a VGM-related sample library, worked on by many OCR regulars/veterans, conceptualized by the founder of OCR & a former-judge and current ReMixer who's organized some amazing OCR albums. Again, the connectivity & relevance seem blatantly obvious to me, and appear intuitive enough to others.
FWIW, I do appreciate the role of "watchdog" and I don't mind decisions like this being questioned, but you're going beyond questioning and just making bad faith assumptions that don't seem to be grounded in reason. There's a cutoff point where it stops being "useful questioning of authority that prompts warranted reflection" and starts being paranoid accusation, incomplete appreciation of reality, or repetition of unreasonable & inconsistent claim...
If you cannot explain the above inconsistency more clearly, perhaps refrain from further contributing to the thread until your position is more fully-formed?

Here's a little bit about how this instrument came to be. Way back in ~2007-2008, Dave had the idea to do a sample library based on arcade sounds. "Samplecade" was the original title. I expressed some interest in helping, since at the time I had just worked on my first sample library project w/ Impact Soundworks. He recorded some source material but we didn't get much further at that point. We talked about it from time to time.
A few years ago, after spending some time composing for a game that called for an SNES-style score, I had the idea of creating some ORIGINAL sounds and then making these into a virtual instrument for ISW. We started doing some early tests in 2014. Dave & I began talking again and he shared with me his grander vision; what this instrument COULD be... a definitive collection of not just SNES sounds, but other essential 8 & 16-bit systems as well. I thought it was a great idea and set to work slowly but surely assembling elements of the library. 
PROTODOME recorded the C64, NES & Gameboy sounds and designed some early artwork. Seeing some gaps, Shaggy (theshaggygreak) contributed more C64 material. Neblix has been the lead engineer on the project doing a monumental amount of engine programming. 
By my count that is 10 people from this community that have contributed to Super Audio Cart in some form... Not counting people who have, and will, write demo songs too. 

Of course, the entire community of OCR did not contribute - but we don't have hundreds of ReMixers on any ONE album project either. They're still OCR albums, made by the community. And it really bears repeating that, as djp said, a portion of the sales will be going directly to support OCR. Just like the proceeds from Patreon, site funds support things like printing physical copies of albums, putting on awesome panels at conventions, hosting/bandwidth, working with freelance developers for various projects related to the site, etc. 

In the literal and direct sense, the entire community benefits from this!

Pricewise, there really aren't any products that have this much sample content AND a really powerful synth engine to boot.
As far as pure synths go: Sylenth1 is about $155. Zebra 2 is $199, and Diva is $179. Serum is $189. Massive is $199, FM8 is $199. Strobe 2 is $179. Just to name a few... and believe me this is a lot closer to a synth like those, than to a bunch of WAVs in a folder or a basic soundfont. The 5x FX racks, the independently programmable arps, mod matrix (can't say enough about that) definitely make it competitive with those in terms of features.
Chipsounds is an obvious comparison at $95, granted. And to their credit, it's a great product. But it's also not sample-based, so it doesn't match the true output of any of the included systems. It doesn't have any SNES content at all, nor does it emulate the Genesis (as far as I'm aware). Nor does its engine have a flexible modulation matrix, or 8 FX (it has only 3 FX total).

Another thing is that Chipsounds' preset library is very small. It's a synthesizer for people who really want to get into the nitty-gritty of each chip. A huge advantage of Super Audio Cart is that there are 1,000 snapshots ready to go. These range from pure, authentic mono waveforms and fully constructed drumkits, to crazy tricked-out layers that are fully performable. Chipsounds just does not have all that.
In fact as far as I'm aware, nobody has ever released a true, original (not ripped) SNES sample set... and definitely not one this comprehensive.
You COULD put together an array of different plugins and sample sets that might approximate the amount of content in this library. Maybe it would be cheaper; I doubt it,  I'm not sure. BUT it wouldn't have a single, cohesive interface built for both easy tweaking & deep sound design, and it wouldn't have a universal collection of this many high-quality presets. That I DO know for sure.

Stop being a dummy.

wowza. Groovy and flattering, two of my favorite sensations!

Thanks timaeus!! 

wowza. Groovy and flattering, two of my favorite sensations!

Thanks timaeus!! 

Wow, I feel like pulling this thread out of the archive is like pulling out an impossible lower tile in Jenga, haha

Wow, I feel like pulling this thread out of the archive is like pulling out an impossible lower tile in Jenga, haha