Patron Update - June 2022 (Text Edition!)

Hi all - I normally do a recorded video for these updates but I caught covid last week and I am still looking and sounding like a sick dude so I figured this would make more sense 🙂

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First, I want to give you a little bit of a spoiler for an upcoming YT announcement video because it involves some changes to my Patreon structure:

Starting this month I am going to be working on the soundtrack for the game Viscerafest. My role will be to help complete the OST for chapters 2 and 3 between now and the end of the year. I'm super excited (plus it's from the same publisher as Dread Templar and Forgive Me Father) and I think this game is a great fit for my first serious go at soundtrack work.

So, knowing this, you can expect to see the following:

➡️ I will still be making youtube videos, but many of them will be focused on my ongoing original work for Viscerafest. If you liked the videos of my Fight Between Realms songs, you can expect more of that kind of thing.

➡️ I will still be finishing the cover schedule that I posted at the beginning of the year, but it will be at a pace that fits around the game project work, as opposed to every two weeks.

➡️ I'm hoping to finish the last two Fight Between Realms songs as soon as possible, ideally in June and July.

➡️ I will be locking and discounting my $30 Patreon tier sometime this month. Argent Power Tools is almost complete and I won't have time to work on more software in the same way as before. If you are in this tier, you will remain in it but it will be $20 instead, and no one else will be able to join (or maybe $20.01 if patreon won't let me have two tiers with the same price). This way you won't lose access to current beta testing materials, discord, etc.

Hopefully that all makes sense! Don't hesitate to message me if you have questions.

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Second, here's what's going on with Argent Power Tools:

Thanks to lots of awesome beta testing, the feature set has been mostly finalized. It has come a long way from where it started! I am working with a pro UI designer now to make it look like something flashy that you'd expect to buy in real life, as opposed to the boring cluster of gray knobs and buttons that it currently is. 

I used APT a whole bunch in the Metal Gear Rising cover, so that's how I know it's very 👌.

If all goes well, this means that the official launch could come as early as July. More realistically I'm looking at August, especially if I were to go through the process to make it compatible with the free Kontakt Player. Either way, great testing everyone!

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Finally, here's what you can expect for June content:

My plan is to announce Viscerafest next week, and then later in the month I'll tackle the next installment of Fight Between Realms (Livitica Void). I will be starting the Metal Gear Rising deep dive video as soon as I sound/look like a normal human again, which I expect will be soon.

That's all for now! Thanks everyone and see you in July for the next update 🤘

- Geoff