I believe so—but I'll be completely honest, I'm not 100% sure. I believe Apple Music is listed in the list of digital distribution partners, and I also believe that we have a tab for accessing Apple Music reporting—but when I look at the list of digital distributors and the music's delivery status to each, only Apple iTunes shows up in the list. So it's possible that delivering to Apple iTunes and Apple Music are one and the same thing. Someone with Apple Music will probably need to find out and let us know...

Well, I know how I’m going to treat myself next month, since next month I’ll have finally paid off one of my long-standing debts.  I can’t buy it right now, funds are just a little bit short, but I should be OK for next month.

Yeah it's a virtual orchestra—we could not, in a million years, afford a real orchestra. But a virtual orchestra in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing with it can have some pretty remarkable results (just look at all the Hollywood scores being done without live musicians nowadays).

So, this is a post directed at Joseph and his team as a whole.
First, my congratulations. Your score is excellent. Short, but with a great amount of substance.
Secondly, I took the time to listen to your radar demo video again in full. And, I have a few questions. Now, I know of the two main sounds: The open space and close off sounds... but there was a third. A lower, slightly rougher sound that I don't know what it indicates. Is it possibly the indication of an interactible? I heard a lot of it in the tavern and on your trip to the barracks. In short, though, I am excited for the game to be released, and my interest, while piqued before, is a full fledged fire now.

Yeah, it's definitely a VST orchestra which sounds good really.

I still remember the days when VST instruments were introduced for the first time and the Gladiator movie OST was one of the first (as far as I know) movies with music composed only with the virtual orchestra what was simply amazing!

Hey Dragomier: The radar sounds include an "open space" sound, a "closed space" sound, and a unit/container sound. So yes, you pretty much called it. We've gone back and forth about whether units and containers share a sound or have distinct sounds—there are points in favor of both. Do note that the radar sounds will almost definitely be different in the release than they are in that demo—but there will be a sounds reference menu that you can use to familiarize yourself with all the cues.

As for armor types, I tend to not want to give away too much of that sort of information, so that players can discover it on their own. But to answer in broad terms, not all armor is weak or strong against particular damage types, but when it is, that information will be available.

Lirin: I didn't know Gladiator was a virtual score—that seems fairly early. That's very impressive. I did know that Avatar had a virtual score, and that blew my mind.

I listened to the soundtrack on iTunes.
I didn't read if you posted that it is 14 tracks for $9.99 USD
Each track cost $0.99
I found it by typing the below text in the edit box, or rather copied it:
‘A Hero's Call (Original Game Score)’ by Joseph Bein

You probably knew, but just in case you didn't you're now on Spotify! Good times

That's wild. It must have been pretty ground-breaking in that case.

Of course, the best instrument samples in the world can't make a piece of music sound like it's being played by a real orchestra. I don't know much other than what came up in conversations with Steven, but there's a lot more that goes into it—automation and different things with articulation to make the performance sound less computerized, knowing what can and can't be played on different instruments without them sounding too synthetic, knowing how different combinations of sampled instruments sound together, and on and on. If you just take a midi track and play it through the highest quality virtual orchestra, it's still not going to sound anything like a live orchestra. That's one thing I learned through this whole process, and it just makes me appreciate Steven's artistry—and that of other VST composers—so much more.

Lest you all think that because of all this emphasis on the soundtrack, nothing is happening with the game: don't fear. Our sound designer Drew is on a roll and is getting some great work done, and we're working on setting some hard deadlines in the hopes of announcing a release date soon. Just wanted to let you know that we're in a period of good activity. Sometimes, depending on people's work schedules and other stuff going on, we could go a week or so without seeing much new content/any issues resolved; right now, he's sending me new content and/or fixing some other issue every day or two. It's a good thing, and if we can keep this up, you'll be hearing a lot more about the game before you know it.

2 questions regarding the game:
First: I think I've asked that before but will bosses be specified with a music indicating that this is a boss battle.
And my second question is: how the game's distribution method will be for those who'll purchase it? Is it a registration key or just a download for the game itself? I hope it could be a registration system since that will decrease any vulnerability for it to be illegally distributed.
Thanks Joseph for your great effort, indeed this game will be a really great thing that our gaming history will record and keep.

Well of course. I don't exactly know how to word it. My next question: I noticed it said that Gwen is a battlemage while Merlin sounded as though he was a normal mage. I'm not sure if you can answer this, but does that speak of more class customization than was originally apparent?
And I did notice music changes. If you listen to the Farhaven music on the soundtrack and in the radar demo, there's a huge, huge change.