the 2004 MEGA SOUND LINK list !!
Posted: 09/03/2004 - 13:02
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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 Wireâ€Â. Click ARCHIVE then interviews and essays - Magazine and CDs from “The Wireâ€Â.
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 Musicâ€Â.
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 “manualâ€Â.
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 (“PDâ€Â) 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 developmentâ€Â)
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 gapâ€Â
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 “Samplesâ€Â
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
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 Wireâ€Â. Click ARCHIVE then interviews and essays - Magazine and CDs from “The Wireâ€Â.
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 Musicâ€Â.
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 “manualâ€Â.
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 (“PDâ€Â) 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 developmentâ€Â)
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 gapâ€Â
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 “Samplesâ€Â
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