the 2004 MEGA SOUND LINK list !!

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The following post has been taken from KVR, at this link:

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=456351

It has been posted by Pantsdown666 and it's by far, the best and most uselful post i have ever seen on KVR. Great praise to him.

Take your time, it's simply a huge goldmine of infos about music at 360 degrees.

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Hi Folks!

my annual MEGA SOUND LINK list follows

What's it for? : I'm chief sound lecturer at the College Of Fine Arts in Sydney, teaching in the Digital Media degree. This is a list of links for students to follow up both ideas and techniques. There may be some stuff you find interesting or useful.

Disclaimers : We're a Mac-based Protools institution (sound here covers installation, sculpture, audio-visual soundtracks as much as it does electronic music). We have Protools, Reaktor, VST-RTAS adapter, Max/MSP and a ton of freeware apps / VSTs / Pluggos / audio units.

But PC people please have a look below, a lot of the list is about ideas and not platforms, plus there's some good experimental PC software links.

Also, you'll note the absence of links to individual plugs/developers - these are always in the instructions on the computers.

A certain proportion of these links always come from interesting discussions on kVr, so a thanks to all of you upfront, and i hope you find something here!

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SOUNDSCAPE AND SOUND ART

http://www.l-m-c.org.uk/LMCframeset3.html
Resonance magazine articles.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/
“The Wire”. Click ARCHIVE then interviews and essays - Magazine and CDs from “The Wire”.

http://www.sonicartsnetwork.org/
Sonic Arts network

http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/~qamutiik/database.html
Over the top link page on experimental sound/music. Some dead links.

http://www.sysx.org/soundsite/
SoundSite : online sound journal based in Australia – not updated for some years but good stuff there.

http://www.sysx.org/soundsite/csa/eis2content/
Essays In Sound 2: Technophonia

http://www.sysx.org/soundsite/links.html
“Sound Music and Noise related sites” – more dead links than you can poke a stick at, but some gold to be found

http://www.sukothai.com/xebec.html
XEBEC - Japanese sound art site

FILM SOUND DESIGN

http://hem.passagen.se/filmljud/filmsound.htm
FILM SOUND theory, terminology, essays etc … great link site.

http://www.filmsound.org/links.htm
Links to articles

http://www.filmsound.org/
FILM SOUND SITE – great resource site.

http://www.filmsound.org/cliche/
Film Sound cliches !

http://www.hollywoodlostandfound.net/sound/robocop/
Sound effects design for Robocop

RADIO, SCULPTURE AND INTERACTIVE SOUND

http://www.altzero.com/
AltZero by Icarus - great interactive pieces, have a play, and download Compose (PC only) to make your own.

http://www.transom.org/shows/2001/20010 ... links.html
radio-sound-art

http://www.hearingvoices.com/
Hearing Voices : radio art

http://music.dartmouth.edu/~kov/soundArt/index.html
sound sculpture

http://www.ircam.fr/equipes/analyse-syn ... s/Externe/
Interactive sound resources and ideas : “Trends in Gestural Control of Music”.

http://www.noogenesis.com/binaural/binaural.html
Duen Hsi Yen's Binaural sound link page

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cnfractal_music/
Fractal music discussion (Yahoo group)

IMAGE & SOUND INTERACTIVITY (software / ideas)

http://www.youngmonkey.ca/nose/articles ... ndLab.html image processing for audio

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/article ... tz1.2.html
Mary Ellen Bute: Seeing Sound

http://www.picturesofsounds.com/
Pictures of Sound : 2 South American artists working on image/sound interactivity.

http://www.artwrite.cofa.unsw.edu.au/01 ... music.html
Coloursound

http://www.webcenter.ru/~vsoft/BitmapPlayer.htm
http://www.webcenter.ru/~vsoft/SndWarp.htm
bitmaps and waves – converters (PC software).

http://web.sfc.keio.ac.jp/~penrose/hyperupic/index.html
Hyperupic is a tool for creating sounds from digital images (OSX)

http://www.well.com/user/smalin/mam.html
the Music Animation machine

SAMPLING / APPROPRIATION / COPYRIGHT

http://www.low-life.fsnet.co.uk/copyright/index.htm
Good article on ethical/legal questions about sampling from UK online hip-hop magazine "Low Life", plus many links to other related sites.
http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/law(01).htm
UK copyright law

http://www.music-law.com/sampling.html
U.S. legal perspective on sampling

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/
U.S. Copyright law

http://www.songfile.com/license_home.html
limited-quantity licensing in the USA

http://www.digitalmusicworld.com/html/h ... istory.php

a history of the sampler (Yamaha bias but still OK)

http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual.html
How to get a number 1 hit - KLF’s classic “manual”.

http://www.evolution-of-minor.com/image ... Wizard.JPG
How to get a number 1 RnB hit

http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Why the music industry sucks

http://www.mp3-tech.org/patents.html
Why MP3s suck

AFRICA AND SOUND

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo ... lesFr.html
African rhythm – methods, culture, history, social context

http://www.acslink.aone.net.au/christo/histmain.htm
African music concepts and historical overview

http://www.kubatana.net/html/archive/ar ... tor=ARTCUL
African Music styles glossary

http://www.jahsonic.com/
interesting musicologies

http://www.afrofuturism.net/text/about.html and http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a9217490/afro-futurism/
Afrofuturism – the sci-fi link to cultural production and politics

http://www.jahsonic.com/ASVanDorston.html
the Afro-Alien Diaspora – more on afrofuturism

See also the RHYTHM section within the INSTRUCTIONAL MUSIC STUFF section of this document.

CULTURAL THEORY and HISTORIES

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/Volume2 ... ticle.html
Fun one first. Orchestral Corporate – by Robert Fink. Fantastic, entertaining and funny analysis of “production music” CDs (you need sound on for examples)

http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/echo/volume5 ... index.html
the Echo archives – musicology articles from UCLA journal. From Eminem to Mahler. Wide-ranging essays.

http://www.tagg.org/texts.html
Phillip Tagg’s online essays. Wide-ranging musicology essays.

http://www.jahsonic.com/PhilipTagg.html
Essay : Open Letter about 'Black Music', 'Afro-American Music' and 'European Music' by Philip Tagg

http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/HEA ... ophon.html
Soundscapes - online journal on the history and social significance of media culture

http://home.t-online.de/home/j.ingram/tnt.htm
Essay : the Notation Of Time by James Ingram. Hard assed questioning of music ‘theory’.

http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Com ... ts/cmjlib/
The Computer Music journal

ELECTRONIC MUSIC – HISTORIES

http://www.ishkur.com/features/music/index.htm
Ishkur’s Guide to electronic music – Interactive. Astonishingly subjective approach to contemporary electronica, but useful and entertaining.

http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/
120 years of electronic music – timeline

http://phobos.plato.nl/e-primer/timeline.htm
the electronica timeline

http://www.caipirinha.com/Film/modulati ... eline.html
Another timeline

http://www.musicplasma.com/
musicPlasma – interesting online tool of stylistic associations.

FIND OSX AUDIO SOFTWARE

Also check the VST and PLUGGO sections below.

http://www.osxaudio.com/
OSX Audio.com – articles and discussion on OSX audio

http://pete.yandell.com/links/
Pete Yandell’s OSX audio links

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/
Hitsquad - source of audio freeware/shareware/demos for all platforms.

http://www.macmusic.org/softs/softcat.p ... N/id/7023/
MacMusic

http://www.audio-units.com/home/applications.html
Audio Units (OSX audio format) info.

FREE OSX SOFTWARE SITES

See also the VST and PLUGGO categories in this document.

http://conglomco.org/aac/
AacConverter1.0
converts AAC, M4P and MP3 files to AIFF

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about.php
Audacity 1.1
Cross-platform audio editor. See COFA instructions for links to online manuals.

http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-34826/
Audio In 1.0.3
Audio recorder

http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-34826/
Frequency 1.0
Draw into frequency of audio files, good experimental tool.

http://www.manyetas.com/creed/midikeys_beta.html
Midikeys 1.6b3
Virtual MIDI keyboard, routable. Not working in Protools yet, though accepts a through signal from another keyboard (so can for example, double up an audiounit synth. Works in all Audio Unit apps, e.g. RAX, Synthtest.

http://www.deepniner.net/mp3trimmer/
MP3 Trimmer 1.1.2
Trims MP3s

http://deepniner.net/mplay/tools/tools-fs.htm
MP3-to-Aiff 2.5.sit
MP3-to-Wave 2.5.sit
Audio file converters.

http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/standalones.html
multi vst shell 3.1X.app
OSX version of MultiVSTshell, loads VST instruments / FX. Also Needs Pluggo Runtime installed first (see Pluggo section of this document)

http://www.plogue.com/
Plogue Bidule v0.6502
Cross-platform audio recording/playback / manipulation host. Loads VSTs.

http://www.grantedsw.com/rax/
RAX 0.3.3b
Audio Unit host, in development.

http://melodymachine.com/sfark.htm
sfArkXT.1.0.3
Sound font extractor (for compressed Soundfont files from the web.

http://pete.yandell.com/software/
SimpleSynth-0.7
Plays soundfonts and general MIDI instruments

http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php
SoundHack
Experimental sound editor.

http://www.logicalyze.com/f_down/downmac.html
Studio Calculators 1.8
Delay calculator (page is in Japanese)

http://www.manyetas.com/creed/synthtest.html
SynthTest
Loads one Audio Unit instrument and one audio unit effect, alternative to RAX.

http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/apps.html
tcounterX
Enables timecode readout in Protools LE. Needs Pluggo Runtime installed first (see Pluggo section of this document)

http://www.ambrosiasw.com/utilities/freebies/
Wiretap 1.0 :
Record any audio playing on your comp as an audio file.

http://andydrabble.users.btopenworld.com/
zerius vocoder 1.1
Vocodes AIFF / WAV files.

REAKTOR

http://www.native-instruments.net/
Native Instruments : Reaktor etc

http://www.mortmain.com/reaktor.html
Reaktor resources links – ensembles etc – good link page.

http://www.patcharena.com/modules.php?n ... ink&cid=16
Other links to Reaktor ensembles.

See also the VST and PLUGGO sections below

FREE PLUGGO DEVELOPERS

Freeware Pluggo instruments and FX that we run in Protools can also run in most VST and audio unit ‘hosts’ (Logic, Cubase etc). Currently Mac only.

http://www.cycling74.com/products/dlpluggo.html
Pluggo Free Runtime installer – go down page, download and install the Runtime version, not the full app demo.

Then grab free pluggos from the following developers. Some are OS9, some are OSX, some are OS9 but still run in OSX.

http://www.music.columbia.edu/PeRColate/
The Percolate Collection

http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/pluggox.html
JK (make a donation if you like his stuff)

http://www.postsomnia.com/
Matthew Lyon

http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/plugs.html
The Lone Roger

http://gleetchplug.ienproject.com/
Tobor Experiment

http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/wheat/
Wheat’s collection (a few ad pop-ups)

http://gdavis.dyndns.org/plugins.html
Greg Davis

http://refusesoftware.com/freeware.html
Refuse Software

VST INSTRUMENTS and FX

http://www.fxpansion.com/
VST-RTAS adapter – professional OSX adapter to get VST instruments into Protools.
** VST-capable host programs such as Cubase, Plogue Bidule (and many others) do not require this adapter.

http://www.kvr-vst.com/index.php
KVR - VST resources : best resource for VSTs

http://www.patcharena.com/
Patcharena – patches for VST and other instruments.

http://www.vstcentral.com/
VST Central

http://st2n.com/daw/en/
Cubase site for VST plug-in search

http://www.em411.com/
EM411 : Good broad based electronica makers’ site –interviews, reviews etc. Login required but no spam.

http://www.sectionz.com/login.asp
Sectionz.com – electronic musician’s site

http://www.osxaudio.com/index.php?story=393
OSX Audio.com – good source of info and forums for OSX audio.

http://www.databaseaudio.co.uk/index.php
Database Audio – another place to search out VST plug-ins

http://st2n.com/daw/en/
Cubase magic - … and ANOTHER

http://emusician.com/ar/emusic_good_stuff_2/index.htm
Good Electronic Musician article on Mac freebies (VSTs and others) – includes links. August 2003

http://emusician.com/ar/emusic_good_stuff/index.htm
The PC equivalent of the above article. August 2003

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0
KVR thread with links to free VST effects (note : no Mac/PC distinctions)

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial ... almain.asp
Computer Music - Good tuts for DS-404, SR-202, CM-505, CM-303 and CM-101 VST instruments

http://www.smartelectronix.com/
Smart Electronix – great experimental VST FX

SOUNDFONTS

Soundfonts are like complex sample sets, containing information about how the sound is mapped across your keyboard etc. If you collect soundfonts, you can load them into the following instruments at COFA : SimpleSynth (which plays in the AudioUnit host RAX) , and you can also use them as waveforms in the VST/AudioUnit instrument Crystal. Most of these are “standard” musical instruments.

http://www.patcharena.com/modules.php?n ... ink&cid=25
http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic. ... sc&start=0
http://www.hammersound.net/
http://www.saunalahti.fi/kru99/links-to-SF-sites.htm
http://www.soundzone.info/
http://www.melodymachine.com/
http://www.soundfonts.com/freesoundfonts.asp
http://www.sseyo.com/showcase/demos/soundfonts.html
http://www.ntonyx.com/sf.htm
http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?logino ... age=newreg
http://www.personalcopy.com/sfarkfonts1.htm
http://www.hqsamples.com.ua/index.php?cat=9
http://bastiaan.ods.org/dabasstardz-soundfonts/
http://www.geocities.com/omadeon/omadeon_sf2_links.html
http://atlas.csbnet.se/livecenter/showp ... soundfonts

Other free AUDIO EDITORS and SEQUENCERS

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity – multi-platform audio editor and processor

http://www.plogue.com/
Plogue Bidule – experimental multi-platform audio software

http://www.audiomulch.com/index.htm
AudioMulch – (PC) software for real-time sound synthesis, music composition and audio processing

http://mmturner.home.mindspring.com/software.html
Mitchell Turner’s VST host / sampler / drum machine apps

FREE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND SOFTWARE

http://www.pure-data.org/about/
http://pd.iem.at/
Pure Data – free multi-platform software : like MAX/MSP : a real-time graphical programming environment for audio and graphical processing.

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~jsarlo/pdvst/
PD-VST : app that turns Pure Data (“PD”) patches into VSTs.

http://cecilia.sourceforge.net/
Cecilia is a graphic user interface for the sound synthesis and sound processing package Csound.

http://www.csounds.com/
C-Sound resources

http://www.soundhack.com/freeware.php
SoundHack homepage

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/Cla ... ingSH.html
Using SoundHack to change the Sampling Rate.

http://www.altzero.com/
AltZero by Icarus - great interactive pieces, have a play, and download software Compose (PC only) to make your own.

http://www.ixi-software.net/content/software.html
IXI - experimental software (Mac OS9/PC)

http://www.sineqube.com/software.html
Sineqube - experimental software (Mac OS9, OSX is “in development”)

http://www.audiosynth.com/
Supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming (OS9/X)

http://www.audioease.com/Pages/Free/FreeMain.html
Thonk - random granular synthesis (OS9)

http://shoko.calarts.edu/%7Etre/CompMusMac/
Tom Erbe’s list of programs – mostly OS9, also links to PC sites.

http://www.runme.org/categories/+artist ... diovisual/
Runme.org – more experimental software

http://www.jungulator.com/p/jungulator.php
Jungulator – Max/MSP built audio engine that ‘fuses DJ, sampling & sequencing tools’. (MAC)

http://www.flexatone.net/computer.html
OX (mac)

SYNTHESIS and COMPUTER MUSIC

This is a series of links to online books / texts that will help you understand how to use and or build synthesisers and other audio tools.

http://eamusic.dartmouth.edu/~book/MATC ... tents.html
Music and Computers – online book with sound samples : you download a piece of software to use this.

http://www2.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/index.html
Handbook for Acoustic Ecology ed. Barry Truax. Online book, 1999 edition. Deals with soundscape.

http://www2.sfu.ca/sonic-studio/handbook/Themes.html
great thematic search engine from that book, good place to start.

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/
“Theory and techniques of electronic music” – Miller Puckette

http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmod ... k_toc.html
“Advanced programming techniques for modular synthesisers” – James J Clark. (online book).

http://shoko.calarts.edu/~eric/gs.html
granular synthesis – what is it?


SOUND SOFTWARE CODING and DEVELOPMENT

This is where synth building gets a little more hardcore.

http://www.u-he.com/vstsource/
the VST source code archive - for the constructivists amongst you.

http://www.musicdsp.org/
Music DSP - build sound software

http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/book-html/
Theory and techniques of electronic music – by Miller Puckette.

http://www.creativesynth.com/tocs/toc_features.html
Creative Synth – broadranging articles and interviews regarding “patching” software such as MAX/MSP and PD (and many other synthesis articles)

http://www.smartelectronix.com/~destroy ... ities.html
Writing Audio Units (Marc Poirier from Destroy FX)


INSTRUCTIONAL MUSIC STUFF

BASIC MUSIC “THEORY” (european rules)

http://www.musictheory.net/
Musictheory.net - comprehensive music theory basics. Flash-based, simple.

http://members.aol.com/chordmaps/index.htm
music Theory for songwriters

http://www.ravenspiral.com/rsg2mt/rsg2mt.pdf
Raven’s Spiral Guide to Music Theory – 500k downloadable pdf

http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/glossary/a.html
musical terms dictionary

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desm ... chords.htm
Dansm's Guitar Chord Theory. –good on chords in general

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~desm ... /meter.htm
Dansm’s measures and meters

http://www.xs4all.nl/~huygensf/english/index.html
Microtonal music – the Huygens-Fokker Foundation

http://www.free-scores.com/index_uk.php3
Free sheet music

RHYTHM

http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/Foundation.html
african drumming Foundation course

http://www.maqamworld.com/index.html
Maquam World – learn Arabic beats

http://www.khafif.com/rhy/rhythm.html
Middle Eastern rhythms

http://www.maya.com/local/senn/drum.html
Middle Eastern percussion resources

http://www.xs4all.nl/~marcz/Polyrhythm.html
The polyrhythm page

http://drumbum.com/lessons/
Drum lesson database

http://www.digevent.com/events/consumer ... /index.asp
the Drum Beat – more lessons

http://www.drumrhythms.com/english/homeengl.htm
more!

http://www.optionality.net/drumming/
panta rei’s drumming page – links to drumming pages.

PLAYING KEYBOARDS

http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/
Chordhouse - virtual piano chord building

http://209.217.22.60/BBvpc.html?cordsca ... &formdisp=
Bluesbox – more virtual chord building

http://www.learnjazzpiano.com/
learn Jazz piano

http://www.musicplay.com/
Musicplay - Play ze piano

AUDIO PRODUCTION TECHNIQUES

http://www.theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm
The Studio Handbook (formerly Studio Covers) : Music/sound production article links, frighteningly well organised.

http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
School Of Audio Engineering’s reference centre on all things sound.

http://www.soundonsound.com/articles/Technique.php
Sound On Sound - articles on music and audio production.

http://www.mixarchives.com/archives/def ... IvS1134700
MIX magazine – back issues

http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial ... almain.asp
Computer Music tutorials

http://www.audioforums.com/
Audioforums.com – online forum full of rude, nasty people

http://recpit.prosoundweb.com/
ProsoundWeb – online forum full of boring engineers

http://www.silcom.com/%7Ealudwig/contents.htm
Sound physics

http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~tebo/Classes/4850/Audio/
More sound physics (top section only, rest a bit dated).

http://www.uk-piano.org/sound.html
the speed of sound. If you wanted to know J

http://www.audiotechnica.com/using/mpho ... index.html
All about MICROPHONES

http://www.headwize.com/
All about HEADPHONES

http://dolby.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/dolby ... td_alp.php
Dolby and surround info

http://www.kellyindustries.com/diy_5_1.html
5.1 surround on a CDR

http://www.recordingeq.com/Subscribe/tip/tascam.htm
http://www.recordingeq.com/EQ/req0400/OctaveEQ.htm
http://recordingwebsite.com/articles/eqprimer.php
Equalisation tips

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/the ... index.html
Reverberation – some science

INTER-APPLICATION AUDIO

http://jackit.sourceforge.net/
Jack - audio application which will let you route audio between applications (except Protools), as well as connect a number of different applications to an audio device.

http://www.meskalina.it/elementicaotici/dev/jack.html
Jack OSX

http://www.macmusic.org/softs/view.php/lang/EN/id/1714/
Soundflower – another audio application which will let you route audio between applications (except Protools).


AUDIO NETWORKING

http://www.apulsoft.ch/wormhole/index.php
Wormhole – network computers (MAC)

http://www.fxteleport.com/index.html
FX Teleport (PC)

http://www.hdm-stuttgart.de/~sw19/audiospace/
the Audiospace project (a Mac-based project)

OS9 mac software

http://www.digidesign.com/ptfree/
Protools FREE download page (OS9 or Win98 only)

http://www.digidesign.com/compato/mainfreewin.html
Protools Free PC compatibility notes (not good news)

http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/standalones.html
MultiVSTShell – freeware OS9 host that feeds VSTs into Protools Free and other Protools OS9 systems. You must collect the OS9 VSTs yourself – COFA’s ones are all OSX. Search for them here : http://www.kvr-vst.com/get.php

http://www.refusesoftware.com/freeware.html
Ugly VSTi Host - another freeware OS9 host that feeds VST instruments (but not FX) into Protools Free and other Protools OS9 systems. You must collect the OS9 VSTs yourself – COFA’s ones are all OSX.

http://www.smartelectronix.com/users/destroyfx/
VST-MIDI app – freeware OS9 app : load an audio file into it, apply VST FX, output a file.

http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/standalones.html
SPIG – FREE OS9 equivalent to Wiretap (record any audio on your comp)

http://www.spies.com/~franke/SoundApp/
Sound App application. (OS9 file conversions, e.g. MP3 to AIFF etc)

http://www2.arnes.si/~mmilut/BladeEnc.html
Blade encoder (OS9 make MP3s from AIFF or WAV files)

** Also check the PLUGGO and VST sections of this document – you’ll find OS9 equivalents for most things.

MIDI FILES

http://www.tweakheadz.com/how_to_get_st ... _midi.html
MIDI for beginners.
http://www.manythings.org/midi/search.html
Find that MIDI file
http://www.manythings.org/midi/
Standard MIDI files on the net
http://www.midiworld.com/midifile.htm
Classical and jazz MIDI files . Quite scary.
http://www.midifarm.com/files/
MIDIfarm
http://www.musicrobot.com/
MIDI explorer (popups)
http://www.midi.com/
MIDI.com

TRICKS

http://www.bwdesign.ca/music2.html
Create mouseover sound on a webpage.

http://wwwtios.cs.utwente.nl/say/
Make robot speak

http://www.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Engine demo

http://www.harps.com/harp.swf
play the virtual harp

http://neuro.caltech.edu/~lshams/demo.html
Sound-Induced Illusory flashing

http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/ ... glish.html
Tricks with audiovisual lipsync

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
“Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone” – unusual use of vinyl records

SOUND EFFECTS section :

SOUND FX SEARCH SITES

http://www.findsounds.com/
FindSounds.com – good search engine. Try 16 bit 44100 kHz if possible/

http://www.musicrobot.com/cgi-bin/windex.pl
Music Robot : “Let music robot find your sounds” POPUPS

http://WavCentral.com/search.htm
WAV Central : ‘FX’ section and ‘search’ section are useful.

http://www.stonewashed.net/sfx.html
Stonewashed : Link site for various SFX sites. POPUPS

http://www.soundhunter.com
Sound Hunter : Click “Sound Effects Links” for the link page.

http://thefreesite.com/Free_Sounds/Free_WAVs/index.html
The FreeSite : Links to free WAV sites

http://www.echovibes.com/Autorank/autorank.html
“Echovibes Top 50 Sound Sites” Let the popups begin

SOUND FX SITES

http://www.hollywoodedge.com/the_acb/we ... Page_ID=16
Hollywood Edge : Some free effects - good quality MP3s

http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.html
Partners In Rhyme : Has sound effects section.

http://www.soundamerica.com/
Sound America : ‘Sound effects’ section is low quality, but where else are you going to find a vomiting cat ? <span style="font-style: italic">MAJOR POPUP WARNING

http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
Acoustica - smaller collection

http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=361280
more links from a kVr thread

SPECIALIST SOUND FX SITES

http://nauticom.net/www/mudhut/game.html
Some gaming FX
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
Classic speeches from the History Channel
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/38 ... ounds.html
English tube underground voices – “Mind the gap”
http://www.dailywav.com/
Daily WAV - TV dialogue etc
http://www.cruelcutz.com/samples/mr_nigel/download.html
mr nigel’s Vocal Hooks J

MUSIC SAMPLES (beats etc.)

http://web.iol.cz/mpc/sa/index.htm
Sample Arena –BPM-labelled beats but you need to dig a bit.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/onemusicdat ... ndex.shtml
BBC collection –quite good ! Watch the categories date …

http://www.e-lab.se/
E-Lab Sweden : good free downloads. Login (free) required, no spam.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~spufus/
Loopasonic – well organised site. Login (free) required.

http://www.tplm.com/samples/boucles/groove/home.htm
Tout Pour La Musique ! - Beats labelled with BPM but not style.

http://www.waveform.dk/showall.phtml?or ... e&how=DESC
Waveform.dk - Good varied collection

http://www.djsamples.com/djsamples/free ... amplepack=
Djsamples.com – big collection, SEARCHABLE.

http://www.dorumalaia.com/
Doru Malaia World – free sounds and useful links lists

http://www.e-drummer.net///freeloops.html
E-Drummer - Drum loops

http://www.superloops.com/listen.htm
Superloops : check those crazy categories

http://meanbeat.cjb.net/
Mean Beat – click “Samples”

http://www.breakbeatsonly.com/preview1.htm
Breakbeats only.com – prof site with some freebies.

http://www.zero1media.com/samples.htm
ZeroMedia – Short hits & some loops

http://www.natural-studio.co.uk/sampled.htm
NS Kit - acoustic drum kit and other instruments, high quality and mega MB

http://theremin.music.uiowa.edu/MIS.html
Uni Of Iowa- ‘Classical’ instruments

http://studio.dubroom.org/samples/
Dubroom - Dub samples

http://www.samplecity.net/
Samplecity Network – requires log-in

http://www.sonichound.com/
SonicHound - drums and synths samples

http://www.aqqo77.dsl.pipex.com/LiveLoops/loops.html
LiveLoops.com

http://www.electronisounds.com/Wav_CDs.html
Electronisounds – prof. Sample CD site with demo packs.

http://www.hollowsun.com/vintage/index.html
Hollow Sun – vintage keyboard and synth sounds

http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/
The Mod Archive – synthesiser focus.

http://www.dorumalaia.com/links.htm
Doru Malaia World - samples, soundfonts and more

http://www.manytone.com/downloads.htm
Manytone Music

http://www.proloops.com/freeloops.htm
Proloops

http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=2
Professional Sample CDs – example loops.

http://www.analoguesamples.com/
Analoguesamples.com

MUSIC SAMPLES - LINK SITES


http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Mu ... and_Loops/
Google Directory link page – BIG !

http://dmoz.org/Arts/Music/Sound_Files/ ... and_Loops/
Dmoz - really really big list

http://forum.midiaddict.com/viewtopic.php?t=31429
Biggerer and biggerer list on a Computer Music forum

http://www.loops.net/
Loops.net - good link site, also for software

[Subzero]

bit of a small post there DHS - out of character for you

[DHS]

Check the links, there's some real gold here

[Pex `Mahoney` Tufvesson]

Oh. And I actually thought that I had a lot of spare time.

Now I haven't.

Thanks DHS, yes, it's audio-gold-for-my-brain!

[trace]

Holy heck! Total brain meltdown

Grrrrreat

[ifadeo]

ahh, some fresh links....

nice posting, DHS.....



cheers ifadeo

[Vosla]

ARF !!!

[Lagerfeldt]

Good post