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Pictured here is what used to be my Xbox. Now it is someone else’s Xbox, and that someone else is probably making his 14 year old son pretty happy. Yeah, it’s not a 360, but there are more good games in this bundle than on the 360 at the moment.

Besides giving me a quick fix of cash and clearing up space in my room, parting ways with yet another of my systems reminds me of the slow shift I’m undergoing: from player to developer.

If only the individual jobs moved that slowly.

Right now, I’m 3 hours removed from accepting a mobile sound job. I’m also 12 hours removed from the job’s deadline, by which time I will have delivered both a full soundtrack (four looping BGMs) and a sound effects set.

Oh man, oh man, oh man do I have my work cut out for me.

Yeah, I’ve been pretty awful with updating. Oh well.

I’ve been a bit busy, what with work and stuff. A healthy combination of school projects and commercial gigs combine to make me a rather busy (and potentially better paid) guy.

Still can’t say much about the commercial gig other than its an Xbox 360 game, but you can check out some music stuff I’ve been doing on the side. Both of them are for other amateur/student game projects, and both are quite different from each other.

20060621 - mp3 version / ogg version

battle_fast_master - mp3 version

Yeah, they’re pretty different. That first one…well, that’s my first try using the demo of something called Synful Orchestra. Pretty neat piece of work, and i’m 80% sure I’m going to go ahead and buy the full version once the trial version ends (and I have some more funds in the bank).

I mention buying software, sound libraries, other things that require one to shell out more than 100 US dollars, and the responses from my friends inevitably mention: bittorent, newsgroups, fserves…

Yeah, I know about that stuff. Yeah, I’ve used it before. But if I’m going to be a commercial music and sound guy, might as well be as clean and legit as possible. Besides, it also helps with getting some real technical support on the phone, which can be incredibly useful, especially with the more problematic software packages…

*cough*cough*MOTU Symphonic Instrument*cough*cough*