This week I made an English version to t.A.T.u's 2003 Eurovision entry, Ne Ver Ne Boisya, as the only others I could find were not official or lacking in quality. Did a quick little music video out of clips... and it absolutely exploded.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

Some details about the project:

I completely remade the instrumental since the original had artefacts when I removed the vocals. There are new drum fills. The only original files leftover would be some cymbals and FX.

The vocals are all performed by me, through my AI model, which you can find on my YouTube channel and google drive there, and it was really, really hard. Lyrics are translated by myself into English, without use of a machine excepting I did need a thesaurus. I tried to stay as close to the literal intent of the original as possible, including pronunciation by both Lena and Julia.

It took about 12 hours to remake, including writing lyrics, singing, and mixing and mastering. I am now flooded with requests, but if anyone wants to jump on the train and help me make more stuff like this, given it's not the usual dump an acapella into AI and call it a cover, reach out! Definitely excited to collab.

Other news/projects I'm working on at this time

Voice acting and script work for @Mejson, @MariogD and @MATRVG's respective series, Counter Stick, Reduce, Line of Work, etc. You can expect these to come down the pipe at some point. More voice actors is always better. HELP WANTED ;)

@trunotfals has an absolute metal head banger you can expect to come out soon, with vocals from yours truly and @FarFromSundown. It will be a treat uwu

Also cooking up a super sekrit Sketch Collab down on @Troisnyx's discord for the earworm Can You See the Clouds Divide. ETA god only knows but I'm excited. If you're not on that server, go join it now. It's a cool place to hang.

I am surprised this one doesn't have more derivative works. What a banger.

And aside a myriad of requests and commissions, we have after so many years passed 500 fans (thank you @colizza!), I started using twitter again, I'm single again, and that's about it. I'm open for collabs and all of the above, minus dating. I think that's off the table for a while and I still have some breakup songs to put out meantime lol. What are you guys up to lately?

EDIT: Model is now public! https://drive.google.com/file/d/148HzDd_SRnpHNhWykth7qCp80FZelsVi/view?usp=sharing

So, t.A.T.u has been broken up for 5ever. No new music, no features.... UNTIL NOW cough wonders of AI cough

I'm like a kid in the candy store.

This is a single I made by ACTUALLY singing into so-vits-svc with a model I trained from studio acapellas and raw recordings. Which is a big deal because my laptop is old now and I have avoided python for a reason LOL

What do you think? Would you mistake this for the real thing?

Get the lyrics and DL from YT description

Hey guys, hope all is well. Last time you saw me was probably for NGUAC 2022 judging, a mini snare in my news posts, or the free ADREANALINE sample pack, or maybe even how to use MuseScore soundfonts in your DAW. Well, today I'm here to announce not one but TWO sfz sample instrument projects: Saudade Drums Remastered, the CTK-2400 Project, and loads of other free stuff!

Demo Track:

So before I write a text wall, we got:

• 1 rescued and refurbished metal drum sample pack, sf2 conversion
• 1 paid phonk/vaporwave keys sample library, sfzs, sf2s
• 1 sample instrument pack demo + sample recordings

SFZ and SF2 are free, easy to use sampler formats. To use these instruments, you will need an sfz player such as plogue sforzando. There are plenty of other (free) options -- don't be afraid to google!

But that's it for preliminaries! What are these free instruments of which I speak?

Introducing SAUDADE Drums Remastered!, a metal drum library rescued from the jaws of hell, or wherever else abandoned wav files go to die.

This pack was created to resolve issues with the now orphaned Saudade Drum kit, add accessibility for non-kontakt users, and provide options for those who don't like the way the initial kit was programmed but don't want to spend 45 minutes perfectly programming a third party sampler (me). Noise cancelling and additional post-processing has been applied to reduce unwanted noise captured in the recording process, making the samples crisp and squeaky clean!

Saudade Drums Remastered includes:

• 11 velocity layer kick
• 16 velocity layer snare
• 6 layer rack tom
• 7 layer floor tom
• Original Kontakt 5 nki
• 1 sf2 instrument, and 5 presets

Improvements:

1. free player engine
2. less RAM use than Kontakt
3. intelligent noise reduction applied to all samples
4. sf2's multiple available kick pitches offer more realistic and longer rolls
5. load and pan 9 tom sf2s individually, for half the RAM of Kontakt
6. edit programming yourself if you aren't satisfied!

Kit History:

Saudade Drums was a metal drum Kontakt instrument and sample pack sold by Unwavering Studios, designed to bring mix-ready percussion right to your DAW. It was orphaned when the studio dropped off the face of the internet some years later and now only lives on as a demo on mega.nz. (VulturesOverhead FB, defunct)

Albeit for the most part making good on its promise, the pack remained accessible only to those patient enough to program a sampler or buy Kontakt to use, and the samples themselves contained a hefty amount of white noise with fairly obvious cutoffs. I decided to program an alternative kit as well as apply my own processing. The result is as you see here, lean, mean, and pristine!

Download Saudade Drums Remastered! (google drive)

Use:

In keeping with their name, Saudade, portuguese for an almost indescribable nostalgic longing, they are more suited to average and slower tempo compositions, but I have programmed the sf2 so that faux round robin rolls can be achieved with neighboring notes in most cases, and I'm sure blast beats could be programmed decently. The quality of samples is rich and particularly suited to metalcore and ballads.

I think the samples speak for themselves. Be sure to check out the demos and original files linked below. If you have questions or for whatever reason are not satisfied, don't hesitate to reach out!

Original Files for comparison:

mega.nz (subject to disappear)

And now, introducing the CTK-2400 Project, my first real sample instrument since that 70s Shit, and the first Casio CTK-2400 library ever. Go ahead and see, there is not one single CTK-2400 sample, library, or instrument on the market!

CTK-2400 Sample Instrument

I also make gaudy thumbnails for those interested (pm me) but back to business!!!

About the Instrument

The CTK-2400 was a keyboard manufactured in 2014 by Casio as a learner's piano on a budget. It has 61 keys, 400 wacky tones, a sample function, and no velocity controls.

Forgotten Gem?

The sound of the CTK-2400 is quite hard to come by. Try to find a sample pack or emulator. You can't! The presets are hallmarks of a bygone era. As a rompler, it plays eerily close to the cheap RadioShack keyboards of the 80s and 90s, making it perfect for synthwave, phonk, and vaporwave production, and a lot of fun given the right patches and some experimentation.

Here's the best demo I could find at the time I recorded all of the samples! Doesn't it sound like an N64 Emulator?

How the CTK-2400 Project came to be

I decided to make my own sample pack after spending some time alone with a broken keyboard, now affectionately named Catie, that had been handed to me by Wayne Williams, owner of the famed Meridian Underground Music. Despite comparatively basic features, a new or used keyboard still retails anywhere from 50 to 250 dollars. What a steal!

So I got it working initially as a toy for my girlfriend's four year old son, who we watched dive-bombing her the moment she was screwed together enough not to fall apart.

Well, so much for that. She survived. I found a preset I liked, then two, then four. I wanted the best of both worlds, a toy for our son and a soundbank I could use without lugging around physical copies. That meant taking samples. A few recordings quickly grew into 20 instrument monoliths using a rubric from pianobook. The results were so good, I wanted to share them with you all, and the rest is history.

There are two versions, a free demo, and a paid version bc I haven't received my retirement pay, and I still have rent. :')

CTK-2400 free DEMO (google drive), 5 instrument patches, 20 unedited monolith recordings

You can download the free version here, no usage limitations or bull shittery, with the exception that if you make a demo and I dig it, I'll feature your music AND give you the full version, free! (up to 3 really sweet demos, because the struggle is real -- but if you really can't afford it, we can haggle!)

If you want more presets than those offered in the demo, you can noise cancel recordings on your own, and you know how to use sfz making software, you should be golden beyond the time it takes to make instruments by your lonesome. The included monoliths are the same as included in the full pack below!

Troubleshooting

1. Sfz says "missing files" but I have all the files downloaded!

• Move the offending sfz into "Instr" folder
• If problem persists, open the sfz file with SFZed (sforzando: "open in text editor" button)
• load/ADD samples from the **correct** CTK-2400 folder
• force feed/REPLACE them to the sfz that is giving you the error
• profit???

This is the only problem with the pack I've come across myself. Typically happens after moving the folders.

Let me know if you have any issues with this demo and I'll be happy to help. :)

Full Version Details ($15)

Contains 287 MB of the very best presets from the board, recorded in high quality wav for maximum pitch play and denoised in RX7. The samples have been assigned to 14 programmed sfz and sf2 instruments for play with Plogue's free sforzando software.

20 unedited monolith recordings

1 sfz template to make your own instruments with samples

10 sfz instrument programs

3 programmed sf2 instruments

Each sample has been carefully trimmed, without any post-processing beyond noise reduction, so that you are free to color the sound as you like. That means high quality digital garbage sounds, all of which you are free to make your treasure.

Improvements

• presets have been expanded from 61 to 120+ key range
• polyphony greater than 48 notes now possible
• keys now velocity sensitive, greatly expanding instrument use
• unlike other lo-fi rompler keys, presets based on multiple samples
• no copyright block; you will retain FREE updates for life, so save your access key!

I hope you have as much fun with this library as I did making it. I want to have some product demos by the end of the year, so let it be said, if you are a verified buyer for this product and submit a quality demo (up to 3 demos), I will not only feature your music but offer you 100% off the next two products of your choice to be released. For those using the DEMO version, you will receive a free copy of the CTK-2400 Project!

License

No one is going to come after you for using CTK sounds in a composition. Hardly anyone knows it exists. Do as you like!

Payment Details:

To limit spam, please contact me via PM if interested in the full CTK-2400 project library, or any other sampling/instrument commissions. I accept Venmo and CashApp. I will never ask you for payment via another Newgrounds account, or ask for your address or any other personal information.

Special thanks and gifts:

@Anthonyragus @ImCold @Lordandiso @NebulaTrax @ko0x, as a much belated prize for finishing in the NGUAC top five, you will receive a PM with your own full copy of the CTK-2400 project, priority requests and lifetime updates included.

***Discounts***

$5 OFF: If you have been a follower of mine for longer than 6 months

$5 OFF: you created a NEW Newgrounds account to inquire about payment details (must have verified no other accounts)

$2 OFF: @ a friend, stacks up to 3

Special thanks to those who have supported me throughout the years: @TaintedLogic @Seth @Troisnyx @LexRodent @CyberDevil, PM me if interested in your own free instruments pack!

As always, share if you like, and drop any requests or ideas you have in the comments. @slowfreq, I remember you mentioning you were in need of good snares -- I have yet to put out a sample pack for that just yet; what genres are you looking for?

Love you guys and hope you enjoy!

-A

OPEN FOR COMMISSIONS!

• sample libraries
• soundfont instruments
• sample processing
• mastering

Pricing dependent on volume and time constraints. PM for details.

After my last experiment importing MuseScore drumline instruments into Sforzando (how to), I got bored and made a tiny snare -- little, crunchy, and most importantly not a machine gun. Can anybody test it for me?

I enjoyed doing this so much, I'd like to do some more expansive projects, but I want to iron out the kinks of sharing them in a format that works for everyone before I go through days of making a more expansive kit.

Get it here on Google Drive.

Details on use and installation in the README.

Let me know if you have to do any reconfiguring before popping it into your DAW. If you have ideas for better packing and programming, let me know!

Thanks!

Hey, just dropping in with some updates. (and a word to the wise, don't update your skyrim if you have mods. cough)

I found this in my email. Slate Digital just dropped literal GIGABYTES of free samples -- just log in or create an account. No idea how long the giveaway is supposed to last, so get 'em while they're hot!

I scooped up a smoking 808 pack, several drum and loop kits, and saw there's some pretty sweet vocal chops right there for the taking. The vintage 808 and 909 packs hiding at the bottom of the page are too good to pass up, and I'm pretty sure I've seen them on sale at some point. Definitely worth the snagging. All royalty free.

Drop a comment down below if you see anything I might have missed, tag a friend in need, and check out Octoberlist if you haven't already. You never know what might still be hanging around. ;)

ALSO, before I forget!

I didn't intend this as a self-adertisement, but if I don't say it now, I never will. I've been quietly working on a project just for you guys, so if you're reading this right now, thank you. This is for you! <3

I'm coming out with a sample pack, available free from Google Drive

[Adreanaline - BETA V.02]

What's included?

808s, drums, basses, loops and stems from tracks both recent and unreleased, as gritty and freak nasty as you've come to expect from me. Everything is packed in standard folders with sensible naming conventions for easy drag and drop sorting. Edited in RX7 for cleanliness, aimed primarily at hard hip-hop, industrial, and lo-fi junkies.

Basically, the kind of samples I wanna buy.

What's NEW?! (Nov 15 V. 02 Update)

Japanese traditional instruments and percussion for lo-fi samurai beats, Japanese sho, temple chords, 2 new vocal samples, hits and FX. Dry and reverbed Noh hits of varying pitches and lengths from live recordings, 1 olskool 90's woo.

These are just a few of what I remember. Of course there are gaps in the library since I'm making it as I go along, but what that means for now is that for the price of absolutely nothing, you could sound like THIS

Or THIS

All with the click of a piano roll, or however it is you prefer to play your samples. Drop them in the DAW and chop it olskool for all I care. If you found something from a previous track you like, I can go get it, assuming it still exists.

So if I only used this pack, how would it sound?

A little something like this :)

More demos coming soon...

Putin samples unfortunately not included because мне лень. Obnoxious dubstep wap-waps and marching band shit is in the bag, and did I mention unreleased loops and dirty, DIRTY bass?

License?

The world is your oyster. Do whatever you want with the sounds except selling or passing them off as your own work.

Currently the 489 mB pack is only available on Newgrounds and Google Drive, and I might keep it that way.

If you like it, feel free to tip me on ko-fi, or support me on Lum. I'm not sure if I'd sell it outside this community beyond pay-what-you-want. That takes effort to set up a store, and I'm the type to say fuck it, save your money for medical bills and student loan debt. Just promise you'll be careful. These basses will break your mama's vases, and possibly melt your face off.

Ps: I'm looking for someone to design a fancy photoshop box cover, because Newgrounds artists gotta eat. PM me if you take Venmo for commissions. :3

That's all for now! Will add further freebies past this line. Share if you like, and lemme know what you think!

Adrean

More freebies! - Nov 15

FluffyAudio - Xaxophone, see also a sick free koto!

Audio Plugin Deals - Cinematic Tension FX, free for the next 48 hours! (Nov 18 at freak o'clock)

I got bored and made a menu replacer for Age of Mythology. Then, I got bored again and made it into a menu music replacer! Check it out!

To replace Age of Mythology Extended menu theme:

1. Go to Age of Mythology\dlc-frontend\sound\xpack\xmusic
2. Find "a matt named kittens"
3. Play it to make sure it is the file you want to replace
4. Rename that file. I added "removethistexttorestoremainmenu"
5. Paste this mp3, rename to "a matt named kittens"
6. Open the game. Voila!

If someone would like to do the honors of uploading this to all the workshops out there, I only ask to link this page as a source and give credit. Be sure to tell me if you do so I can link those here! I could probably be persuaded to do more if you like it that much! :)

Disclaimer: You may have to repeat these steps if you install a different replacer. There is another copy of the same exact file in the sound\music folder, "a cat named fitness". That one is not used for the extended edition menu theme. I replaced it also for shiggles. Anyways, always, always have a backup in case you get bored of a new theme. ADR3-N is not responsible for any damaged property or loss of life associated with the use of this product.

Let me know what you think!

Figured I'd drop a little sum'n here. Freebies down below the diary. More to be added upon request! Latest updates will be italicized at the top of the list and dated! I will @ users who have reacted or commented with updates.

Last updated: 10/05/21, 6 additions. 36 unique links.

Now, if you don't already know me, I'm your local mod and Mixcraft legacy user. I've been making music almost as long as I've been on Newgrounds. Judging by the anniversary I missed this month, around 15 years.

In that time, I've seen plenty of plugins come and go. Tried about half of them since cracking my DAW turned into a developer gifting me a copy during my sophomore year of college. Since then, I've gone almost completely digital. It's the technological renaissance -- why not?

As you know, the digital era has its pros and cons. Instruments and FX are insanely easy to find if you know where to look, and hardware to run them is as simple as an average gaming computer -- cheap if you have a half decent job and your rent is taken care of. There are tutorials freely available on how to use any product you can imagine, not to mention music theory, and without paying for a masterclass, you can streamline the process to a fault.

Only one problem. Finding a truly inspiring plugin, enough to bother using it properly, is rare as all hell. I have lost, deleted or given away more software than I care to admit, some of it even bought with my hard earned money. It is so, so easy to drop thousands on plugins that end up a complete waste, especially if you're like me and only read manuals when your own user error has you genuinely believing that either you or it is mentally retarded.

I don't know what's worse, 99 dollars for a contrabass cello I only used twice, or sifting through fifty pages of 80's drum emulators and plate reverbs. And how about all the mass produced, themed bundles with pretty graphics -- wonderful quality, ease of use, just a hint of something missing to ruin your day. Never mind how many gigs it'll set you back to install. Cough, Omnisphere, cough.

Needless to say, I became more selective. My workflow is natural, finally. Pieces that I spend the least mental energy get the most hype, which is nice, if only I have the cojones to lay down the finished product.

It'd be nice if I ever felt like doing that. Most of the time I don't, but occasionally an idea strikes me in the middle of work, hanging out with my wife, or doing something else critically important, like taking a shit and watching paint dry.

It's usually finding a free instrument to utterly destroy. I don't have infinite money, but like everyone else, I get tired of the same old crap staring at me all day, so much so I started intentionally using the "worst" VSTs imaginable. Think Meow Synth and Delay Lama, which were perhaps rightfully mocked by more skilled producers like Composerily. Of course, not everything free you find is terrible. That just seems to be my niche.

Anyway, I started digging around, finding freebies here and there, and what do you know -- I got inspired. Some of my work even got frontpaged. I figured I'd share some of that energy, for anyone else out there like me whose eyes glaze over at the thought of using the same plugins day in and day out. And yes, I'm only posting the good shit. The bad is easy enough to find -- and is not necessarily limited to being free. ;)

Enjoy!

...... October 5, 21

Just got this hot off the press. FREE MASTERING at Mastering Studio, promo code FREE-MASTER-OCT. I have not sampled the service just yet, but I'm a fan of AI mastering in general as an alternative to hours of work at the master channel, just trying to get a test beat to perfection. Try it and see what happens :)

Plugin Alliance also is sending out loyalty vouchers, worth $25 for purchases of $32. That's $32 of stuff down to the price of $7. Worth a subscribe! New sign-ups get 6 PLUGINS FREE!

Free African Slit Drum for Kontakt from Xtant Audio. Free Haunted Music Box

Black Octopus Sounds offers 1 GB of free samples!

Modern Producers is now offering Anno Domini kit for free!

...... October 4, 21

Audio Plugin Deals has expanded their collection of freebies to include pianos, delays, chip synths, and more. Tab on over the options and check it out!

For the next 10 days, Aquamarine Lite Kontakt Library is free! As for other sales, the lowest price I've seen today is $8 for a spanking bundle. Worth checking out, keeping in mind that nickle and dime purchases throughout the year translate to cashback you can use on future purchases, effectively making your own sale.

RedSounds is offering their Ramwong drum and stratocaster loops as free Kontakt instruments. Other instruments on the site, such as the Vox and 808 engines, normal value $120 plus dollars, I got on sale for $19.99 (plus 100% cash back). Not free, but 1/6th the price ain't bad.

HornNet offers a page full of free plugins! Rhythm sequence generators, drum fatteners, compressors, chorus -- check it out. They're pretty great, forgoing the frustrating copy protection license fees and barriers to normal installation. Prices aren't in dollars, but there's a nice selection of under $5 FX pedals I saw, which are a score. Everything is 60% off for the next 3 days.

AmpliTube 5 Orange Dual Terror Is FREE Until October 31st! Works with Amplitube 5 Custom Shop (free).

Line 6 offers Allure IR pack free with signup! I also checked, and there is a discussion thread with more free IRs here.

The Highest Producers offers a sweet selection of drum kits and melody loops, free!

"MURDA BEATZ QUARANTINE" drum kit, free with YT channel sub -- lots of free kits on the channel. Check it out, search "kit" on the profile.

...... October 3, 21

Echo Sound Works' MASSIVE freebie collection - from drum samples, 808s, Kontakt instruments, all the way to presets, worth checking out!

So Southern - 14 Free drum kits as of October! Each of these has a promo code for downloads, 001-014

Plugin Alliance has reset their $20 off vouchers AGAIN! And everything is STILL up to 90% off! Go grab your second round of free plugins while they're hot. Offer ends tomorrow! (Oct 4. 2021)

Speedrum Lite free at plugin boutique. Also check out Kuassa's Amplifikation Lite free guitar amp sim

Heavyocity Punish Lite is free with any purchase -- the cheapest plugin I saw is $19 or so; you may use coupons, so long as they don't make the purchase ENTIRELY free

Black Sun amp is still free at Audio Assault. 80's presets, $3.99. This amp comes with some nice cabs already and can be supplemented with more free cabs listed somewhere in this mess. Plenty of other sales going on, $9.99 amps, $5 cab libraries and so on. FREE SEACOW CABS TEASER PACK

Audio Assault Druminator has been around for a while. Check out a review and see if it's for you!

Finisher Micro Multi FX free at Ujam!

VSTBuzz has a huge and expanding page of freebies, from 808s to live drums, cellos, vocals, and more!

Ferric Tape Dynamics Simulator :3 freeware

...... September, 2021 (Get 'em while they're hot. Something's gotta still be hanging around!

Hip-hop drum kits, UK Drill, several kits

BVKER - best hip hop and trap drum kits of 2021

Kyle Beats - Galaxy One Shots (hip-hop kit)

FreeDrumKits.net -- a whole page of hiphop kits, no bs, just downloads

Free drum machines, 808s, etc at Plugin Boutique

Of course, I would be remiss not to mention BPB's samples

LABS is literally the best free alternative to Kontakt instruments I've ever seen, with tons of instruments. Cinematic Percussion is the best out there. I recommend it for trap and hiphop, actually.

Pocket Blakus cello is a great addition and even alternative to many string synths, making use of Kontakt's pitch shift for layers

Bedroom Producer's blog has done it again with this months list of deals and freebies

WA Production is offering a free de-esser to users :)

Black Sun Amp is free at Audio Assault!

Additionally, there are plenty of great free IRs for Grind Machine (cab off + NadIR), or Grind Machine II and its native IR loader

Salamander Drum Kit

Free 4 string bass -- and a pitch shifter, or two, or three million, in case you like making metal

As far as I know, you can actually use the Plugin Alliance coupon twice -- I got like 4 free plugins, 40$ worth; check the $5-$19 section ;)

Gumroad is offering some free waveshaper plugins

Two Clicks, the folks behind Drip, are offering FX plugin SPAZ for free!

There's a lot more where that came from. This is just what I had the patience to type. Some places I typically look for freebies I'll list here, but a lot of them I found by just continually googling, once a week or so for things I thought I needed, and keeping a separate email for nothing but mailing list offers. When they come with free stuff, I promise, they're not that annoying!

VSTBuzz, AudioPluginDeals, KontaktHub, PluginBoutique are one of a kind hotspots -- Reverb occasionally has freebies too. You can even find kits on Archive.org. Just make sure you don't download a bunch of copyrighted loops. Don't want to get demonetized or your hard fought tracks taken down!

Other sites I like to check are literally ANYTHING that comes up as the top result for free vst in whatever search engine you prefer. Subscribe to mailing lists, rss feeds, and check it every couple days. Honestly, just check whatever developer you come across and see if they have any free stuff. Your patience will be rewarded.

Don't forget to back up your installers, license keys, and samples to a USB, label it, and keep it somewhere safe -- you never know what could happen to your hard drive. Stay away from sketchy sites and be sure to virus scan before running an installer. If you're running out of space, external hard drives and USBs are an option, but be mindful that they are slower to read than normal drives and are dependent on the speed of your USB ports -- and also never unplug them without first ejecting them. Label them so you don't forget like me what's on them for a couple years, lol.

And lastly, never give out your payment information for anything that purports to be free! Happy hunting!

If this helped you, smack that follow button and drop a reaction. Enjoy the freebies, and feel free to leave your own in the comments!

EDIT: If you are here for Geometry Dash, please scroll down to the last paragraph. For sale, see below. For artist news, recommendations, and thanks, somewhere in between 2/3 down. Thank you :)

For the rest of you nerds like me who dig 80s music, Synthwave, and Blade Runner vibes, BEATSKILLZ is having a 88% off sale. Found it in my email today and thought I'd share.

Here's what I got, Super 80's Bundle, $54 for 6 instruments, including various drums and keys. The instruments themselves have been marked down to $9 a piece, some of them for 5GB of samples, the keys, for instance. The drum libraries look pretty expansive, and the demos sound like it will be a lot of fun to work with. I'm especially stoked for the drum wavs, as I've begun extracting and processing my own samples.

Here's one of the demos.

Upon first glance, the plugins do not seem to have any sort of tomfoolery or complicated installations outlined in the manuals. Those of you who know me, know I love weird, retro, and otherwise odd sounds. I'm excited, expecting to be inspired and see how these can be used in a creative way. Just wanted to pass along my curiosity. :)

While I'm here, to fans old and new, long time no see! Please drop by and tell me how you're doing.

Currently I've been working on new projects, using a mixture of MeowSynth, Elsita, CS One Bass, SQ8L, 99Sounds Drum Machine, and Kawai KV1 for strange, retro inspired tracks. I've been thinking about an album, in between the occasional experiment with MuseScore sound fonts and extracting and processing some of my own samples to share. There was some other works I had but currently don't have the inspiration to sit down and figure out where to go. I'll go days without wanting to make anything, sitting at the DAW with my thumbs up my rear, and then suddenly in the middle of dinner or in my sleep, I'll have an idea, and I can't stop until it's done, whatever wild goose chase it takes me on.

Here's a playlist for the tentative album I'm thinking of releasing later this year. Suggestions for track order or new naming convention appreciated.

https://www.newgrounds.com/playlists/view/c7319d4726978a3f5f899407092f780d

And while I'm talking about all the crap I use, I give big props to KSHMR Essentials for processing my percussion as an ALMOST one-stop shop now that I've learned to use it, though it has options for various instruments. There's a free version out there for kicks, though I've found it also works well on just about any instrument for transient shaping, saturation, compression, etc. It is literally a quantum leap in time saving out of all my plugins. Check it out here

Also, to Izotope RX7 for lifting up the percussion in my old work and allowing me to remaster it at *almost* the click of a few buttons, not to mention making it easy to denoise and process samples from live recordings.

To eMastered for being better than SoundCloud mastering and slightly less time extensive than most work I'd put in to a master, especially now that I'm just too damn depressed to finish a song, mix it as well as I can, and then spend 4 more hours at the bus when I just want to post my crap. Get a subscription using that link if and only if you think I deserve to wait one more month before I pay for another year, lol. It worked pretty nicely on... whatever genre this is.

And finally, to you, Newgrounds. Thanks for frontpaging my crap sometimes when you think I deserve it, though I most of the time don't think I do. Thanks for telling me when my stuff sounds like shit, so I know what to do and what not to do. Thanks for having me judge your competitions every now and then, even though I don't consider myself entirely a professional. Thanks for being my friends, fans, and entertainers, 14 years strong. You will always be my inspiration. I can only hope to bring half as much value to you as you do to me in the years to come. Hopefully this is a start.

Love,

Adrean

PS, thank you @BrandonMusic for using my song a geometry dash level. My wife now hates it, but I'm happy and kind of honored you liked it enough to spend time making something so frustrating. It suits the mood. Previously I had a really negative association with the game, being an audio moderator. It's been a nagging source of stolen songs for years, literally the reason I was modded, but I'm personally reminded now that people use it legitimately and charitably, like you. This made my night.

Those reading, please feel free to use my music. They should all be enabled. :)

For those interested, level ID 71148716 :3

"Is the US in your opinion a NORMAL country? SATAN became the mayor of one of the cities there, and by the way, even WORSE people lived there. They certainly deserved it." x2

Сша по вашему нормальная страна?

Там мэром одного из городов стал сатана

и там между прочим еще хуже люди жили

они действительно это заслужили

"And here in Russia, houses are falling apart, very excellently, falling apart well, pleasantly. Whoever there that isn't pleased, I will find them personally, and... you know what I mean."

А у нас в России...

дома рушатся очень аккуратно

рушатся хорошо, приятно...

кому там что не нравится, я лично всех найду и

вы понимаете что я имею ввиду

Just came here to drop some metal and let y'all know I'm alive :*

Subtitles in English and Russian <3

Translation of album art:

"Disabled people are born that way -- and die that way. They don't know what it means to be human. They are facsimiles in human form. They have legs, arms and other body parts, outwardly indistinguishable from people, but DISABLED PEOPLE do not live. Rather, they function. Their functions are described by mechanical laws and four additional hallmarks: cruelty, stupidity, greed, and spite. CSGS. Any of their deeds is effective, predictable, shady, and destructive. All bad, terrible, and horrible events are the result of the actions of DISABLED PEOPLE. We live among them and rarely notice this huge human fake..." - t.A.T.u, Lyudi Invalidy