Bummer! Thank you for helping me get started with Lemmy, and good luck in your future endeavors!

Great tune! I like that some of the pop-punk sounds from 20 years ago seem to be coming back into fashion.

Wonder if they’re planning a US tour any time soon?

One of the later SNES games called Secret of Evermore!

It’s kind-of a spiritual successor to Secret of Mana, but with a more sci-fi bent.

I’m newish to the plugin space, but two that I’ve found myself using quite a bit are:

Analog Obsession’s Comper

Comper is a compressor with both serial and parallel options. I feel like I’ve gotten better sounds from this than the official Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor emulations from Plugin Alliance. Of course, that could be user error — I am a lowly live sound engineer, after all ;)

Tokyo Dawn’s Records’ Nova Dynamic EQ

I just like the way this one sounds. Does what I want with a good spectrum analyzer built in. I intend to purchase the full version soon, but I’ve found the free version very useful in my mixes. On the mastering side, I leaned into rhe Kirchoff EQ from Plugin Alliance, but it seems a bit unstable and feels a little overkill on the mixes where Nova gets the job done just fine.

I’m late to this party, but you might appreciate the open source Axis and Allies engine called TripleA.

My step-dad was a big WWII history buff, and he had the pc version of Axis and Allies installed on the family computer! Loved it and occasionally fire up TripleA for nostalgia.

Thank you for this! Graeber was my favorite anthropologist, and his work informed my research in grad school.

I departed the academic world years ago, but felt a huge loss for the discipline and for the global left when he passed. Currently working my way (very slowly) through The Dawn of Everything.

Interesting take, but super surprised to find it paired with an Isaac run!

I’ve been exploring studio work this year on a small budget, and I’ve been able to get some pretty good sounds using ardour as my DAW.

That said, I’ve been using windows (boo, I fuckin hate it, can’t wait to run out my warranty and get back to Linux) and plenty of closed-sourc donationware or gratis-tier plugins. The plugin selection in particular is where I’ve felt the limitations of FOSS for music production.

Some examples: Analog Obsession has some great donationware (I’m partial to the Comper compressor), and for free-tier versions of proprietary plugins, I really like the way Tokyo Dawn’s Nova EQ sounds.

For open source plugins, I think Airwindows has some very interesting options!

Now, take my experience with a grain of salt: I’m coming from the live audio production world, and that’s the material I’ve been working with. Since you’re more focused on creating your own music in the box, you may not need the kinds of tools for which I’ve been reaching while trying to mix and master multitracked, full band performances.

Good luck!!!