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