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Alberto Maya is a composer associated with Solar Studios who tests (and often mangles) new samples. His scores are usually mixed and mastered here, too.

Campfire and Stars

Composed & arranged by Alberto Maya.

Drums/percussion: Solar Battery (güiro, cabasa, china cymbal, toms, triangle, claves).

Mastering/mixing: Solar Studios.

Note: these are dampened anechoic toms, sampled for our own composing purposes ( :-) ); the actual toms in commercial release are echoic and powerful.

Foggy Dream

Composed & arranged by Alberto Maya.

Drums/percussion: Solar Battery (woodblock, triangle, gourd maraca, melodic tom, claves).

Mastering/mixing: Solar Studios.

The "Sea Orchestra"

Composed & arranged by Alberto Maya.

Drums/percussion: Solar Battery (güiro, cabasa, china cymbal, toms, triangle, claves, woodblock, tlapanhuehuetl, electro-BD, modelled snare).

Mastering/mixing: Solar Studios.

Drawing and Moomin Trolls characters/story: Tove Jansson. That ship is the "Sea Orchestra".

"Sea Orchestra" design and engineering: Fredriksson, with a little help from the King of the Realm.

Glistening Dark Pool

Composed & arranged by Alberto Maya.

Solar Studios' instruments:

Fantasia Pad
Woodblock
Reverse Cymbal
Solar Battery Claves
Solar Battery AE Mars BD
Solar Battery AE Superstar Snare
Solar Battery Triangle
Solar Battery Shakers

96-KHz software synthesisers and samplers allow a much better dynamic range: even with a slight compression, the average dynamic range (RMS) is -25.3 dB.
Mastering/mixing: Solar Studios.

Mountains

Composed & arranged by Alberto Maya.

Mastering/mixing: Solar Studios.

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FLAC Players

XMPlay:

This is the XMPlay 3.7 installer. Local. XMPlay has no official installer, this is something thrown together at home :-) Version 3.7 (latest as of writing), with a few essential plugins thrown in so you don't have to scrape them together from the support site.

Once installed, don't forget to set XMPlay up properly:

- it must be set to output at 24-bit or 32-bit float (whatever the soundcard supports for processing, professional sound interfaces usually work with both). Use ASIO to insure the actual bit depth is used (Windows can sometimes mangle stuff and output as 16-bit). Output priority is ASIO>Kernel Streaming>Wave Out>Directsound, something like that.

Winamp:

Insure the FLAC plugin, in_flac.dll, is set up to output at 24-bit (FLAC really supports any integer BPS value, but the WA plugin is limited to 24-bps). FLAC plugin is bundled by default with all newer versions of Winamp, otherwise it can be downloaded from the FLAC site.

Ota-chan's ASIO output plugin is ideal, also because it has by far the smoothest resampling engine. CD-sourced tracks play about the best they can.

The other output option for Winamp is the Kernel Streaming plugin by Steve Monks.

Foobar2000:

Foobar2000 by default does all internal processing in 32-bit float, so there's no risk whatsoever with its DSP stack. Insure output is set up correctly to 24-bit or 32-bit. Again, ASIO or kernel streaming output is recommended, ASIO is always best. For playing lower-res files, pick up a decent resampler.

VLC works under both Windows and MacOS, and it uses Libresamplerate, another name for SRC. Not quite clear how accurate it is under Windows (most likely it isn't very accurate, ASIO output beats it by clarity). Under MacOS it should use normal high-res 24-bit output (the hardware/software capability is there, it's Apple's lame player that ignores it).

Cog is a very simple MacOS player, but it's confirmed to output normal 96/24 audio (tested it by ears with Themtunes playback against Cog - Themtunes quantised everything to cold/hollow 16-bit, whereas Cog preserved the warmth and clarity of 24-bit).