Hi everyone,

I’ve seen messages in the past in the forums and my mail box asking why a certain track from an X game isn’t present in our releases.

I’ll say this once more just to make it clear.

We do not produce “ORIGINAL SoundTracks” (aka OST) because that would be absolutely ILLEGAL in most of the countries we live in and is against our principles.
Only those who detain the copyright for that X game can release an OST. An OST would not only comprehend every single track from a game, but most likely also every single jingle and, sometimes, even Sound Effects.

Our releases can be considered as “fan made soundtracks“.
We put in what we feel like are the most important tracks and, lately, we’ve started mixing down jingles and similar scores into one single track to make our releases  more “game-like” and less like a boring “track by track” soundtrack, so we can avoid having a billion little tracks that last just a handful of seconds too.

If you’ll ever talk about our project on social networks/forums/etc. PLEASE make sure that you never say something like “that project is releasing OSTs” because that would put us in a lot of trouble and could easily lead to the death of this project.

If you’re not satisfied with our work, feel free to look up the OST for that X game or ask the publisher to make one if it doesn’t exist.

Now, onto the next topic…

“Can I use your releases for my XYZ thing?”

Of course!
As long as you give us credit for the tracks you’re using you can do whatever you like with our work.
Just let me know that you’re using them, don’t just pick whatever you like and use it, always ask permission first and you’re most likely be granted it.
You can ask in our forums or send me a mail at [email protected]

Remember that you can reach us also through Facebook, Twitter, Youtube as well as the aforementioned ways, the links are just below our logo, on the menu bar.

That’s all for now, stay tuned as a new release will be out by the end of the next week!

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Another awesome release is out!

Looks like we’ve found a good pace and will probably manage to get 3 releases out per month!

Check out our Media page to get this!

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…this is why we record our releases at 96 Khz.

And still, as you can see from the graph above, there are informations above 45000 Hz suggesting that despite our super high sampling rate we might be still suffering from aliasing when recording at 96 Khz.
Ugh.

For reasons that would take an exaggeratedly long post to explain, from now on we’re going to de-emphasize everything above 41700 Hz, this way we’ll definitely get rid of artifacts (even if they might prove to be inaudible).

I’ve tried low pass filters above and below 41700 Hz and came up surprisingly with minuscule differences and after extensive testing I’ve decided to sat down at the aforementioned frequency.

For those who didn’t understand a single word from the above: from now on our releases will sound possibly even better.

Peace out!

P.S.: if you’re wondering, the graph was from a track of the new release I’m already working on. ;]

 

Here we come, just in time with a new massive 21-track release!!

A lot of effort has gone into this soundtrack, please check out the Intension, Da-Di-Du!! (or whatever that was, I always get it wrong, LOL) track: Intension has 4 small variations that has been blended together along with Da-Di-Du!! so that they go from one to another almost effortlessly.

Also I’ve made some changes in the recording chain and I’ve noticed that it lowered the noise floor even further which led to a better instrument separation as well as a tighter, less bloated bass which I’m sure you’ll enjoy.

Enough with the talk, go get it while it’s hot!

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Hi all,

the new release is almost ready, we’re uploading it to the file sharing service and the torrent should be ready soon as well.

I want to talk a bit about some changes I’ve made so far for efficiency sake since we’re going hard on hitting 3 releases per month.

From now on the releases will be available for download as “file chunks”.
The size of each file chunk will be 200MB as this is the file size limit Mediafire gives me.

This means that from now on instead of downloading a billion files you’ll be downloading definitely less files to get the entire release.

Actually, the MP3 version is quite small as it tops at ~150MB max so you’ll be able to download the entire release in MP3 format in one file.

The standard FLAC version sometime will fit into one chunk depending on the length and number of the tracks. The one about to be released unfortunately is 250MB so you’ll have to download two files to get it.

The Hi-Res FLAC will be variable between 3 and 7 chunks.

The files you’re going to download can be opened with 7z since they are 7zips.
You can get 7z here:
https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

There are versions for Linux and Macs as well.

“But don… what if I want to listen to only one track?”

You can go to our Youtube channel and listen to it there. Or you can download only selected tracks from the torrent since the torrent’s structure will remain unchanged.

I feel like this is the best solution for now, it may not be convenient but it is definitely more efficient.

Please feel free to comment on this change and give suggestions.

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Here comes November and this year we’ll be trying to be more strict about release dates and, in general, the number of releases per month.

Ideally we’d like to make one release every ten days so that we can have 3 releases per month.

The flow should be as follows:

1 week: recording, quality check, album/youtube cover images, creation of the youtube videos and CD and MP3 quality versions.

3 days: upload the release, upload the youtube videos, make announcement.

I must admit that there’s not much time as, theoretically, after finishing the upload I should already be working on the next release without resting.
Maybe we should just set a goal of 2 releases per month which I find more realistic but then it would take forever to fulfill not only all the requests made but most of the Mega Drive/Genesis’ library.

Not to mention that then we have to switch over to the SNES and then maybe some other platform in the future.

This year we managed to make 20 releases which is no slouch but then it’s far from what we’d like to achieve.
With a quick calculation, if we manage to make 3 releases per month we’ll have a whooping 36 releases this year.
Instead if we settle for 2 releases per month we’ll have 24 releases which is close to what we actually achieved.

I think that our goal for this year is to go for a total of 30 releases which would be absolutely fine IMHO.

The only thing is that I’ll probably not be able to make a soundtrack by soundtrack analysis like I’ve done so far so the announcement will just be something like “Hey, we’ve released X game today! Go get it while it’s hot!” to save time and that would be it.

If someone will ever want to chime in and make a short review of the soundtrack release he’ll be more than welcome of course!

That’s it for now, tomorrow I’ll start working on a new release so don’t go anywhere! :]

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