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The PlusDeck 2 is a full-logic cassette deck for your PC. Use it to archive your old cassette tapes of 80s hair bands into digital media files for playback on your PC. Or better yet, archive your favorite audio files or streams onto cassette - perfect for playback in your '78 Midget that is still not sporting an in-dash CD player. (Those of you still in the 8-track days will have to keep waiting for a PC-friendly solution I'm afraid...) |
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It took us 6 months, but we tracked down the original transistors: 2SK30A JFET, 2SC536F NPN, 2SA733P PNP, 2SC2291 & 2SC1583 matched pairs, LA4140 (the original headphone amp), BA6110 (equivalent to BA662) OTA, AN6562 (original op-amp)
Si vous décidez de craquer pour cette bassStation, sachez qu'il faudra vous inscrire sur une liste d'attente :(
The x0xb0x is not just another MIDI-controlled TB-303 clone. x0xb0x is a full reproduction of the original Roland synthesizer, with fully functional sequencer. The sequencer can be programmed just like the original 303 (ok its actually a little easier, we think) and can be used to control other synthesizers via any of its various output formats. 128 banks of track memory and 64 banks of pattern memory are stored in onboard EEPROM, no battery-backup is needed!
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What is it?
A simple gesture as a hand wave or a handshake is universal. It's a way to greet and communicate in any social environments. Deriving from this basic human behavior, the Haptic Glove creates a situation where the hand gesture holds or creates another meaning. Through the usage of sensors and sound, the Haptic Glove provides music as another language for the users to interact with.
Music is a form of communication. Music transcends language barriers, creating opportunities for people to communicate even if they do not understand each other's spoken words. The users who wear our gloves can create musical compositions by linking hands together. With this simple physical gesture, the users are able to make a connection with others and feel as if their body is producing the sound.
The hand holding is important for the Haptic Interface attempts to physically bring people together. Due to the simple understanding of a hand gesture, the users will not feel intimidated to try this technology, in result creating an environment that is comfortable and natural. Since the hand gesture is universal, the Haptic Glove hopes to entice people to interact and create an environment that is fun and barrier-free.
Desired Outcome
Interaction through physical touch and mixed sounds create a new level of communication beyond the limits of words and linguistic fence. The Haptic Musical Glove is a work in progress. We hope to develop more gloves so multiple users may participate.
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THE CWEJMAN S1 The Cwejman S1 - An analogue synthesizer whose high performance and flexibility give musicians unlimited opportunities to create everything from classic "vintage sounds" to sounds so unique you've never heard them before. The Cwejman S1 is an instrument for the true musician that gives you complete freedom to shape the sound you want. The Cwejman S1 is patchable for tremendous flexibility. It has an open interface, so everything is immediately accessible - not hidden in The Cwejman S-1 is a semi-modular synthesizer featuring a unique sound circuit solution. In other words, this is no mere copy from the synthesizers of the 60s or 70s. Semi-modular synthesizers Semi-modular means that all functions and modules (oscillators, generators, filters, etc.) are linked. The synthesizer is preconfigured, but the configuration can be changed at will. All signals can be used as sounds or modulation sources and all parameters: pitch, pulse width, volume, and resonance, etc., can be modulated from any source. You can imagine the creative opportunities waiting for you inside this instrument! Warm and powerful sound The most unique feature of the product is the sound processing circuits that produce the unmistakable Cwejman Sound: a warm, fat, and genuine analogue sound. Sound quality is consistent and powerful, especially in the bass register. The Cwejman S1 has a distinct sound and packs enormous possibility in a compact package. Our sound circuits are uniquely designed using our proprietary solution. They are characterized by the same punch, bottom and consistent sound found in the vintage treasures - but they can also sound completely different. If you have a sampler, you can order our CD in Akai S-1000 format containing a large number of basic sounds taken from the Cwejman S1. This way, you don't have to wait to start taking advantage of what the Cwejman S1 has to offer. |
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Infinite City is a collaborative installation by Miro Kirov, Principal Studio IMC 3D Animator, Jean-Marc Gauthier, Principal Architect and 3D Worlds Designer, and James Tunick, founder and President, Studio IMC. The installation involves real-time interactive 3D graphics and gestural control over visuals and spatialized sound through ultrasonic sensors, all within an immersive virtual environment. |
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SOUNDSCAPE AND SOUND ART
http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f01/Focus/Media-arts/glitch/glitch.h tm
Glitch - some listening! Glitch, turntablism etc.
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
http://www.obsolete.com/120_years/machines/futurist/art_of_noise.html
The Art Of Noises - Luigi Russolo
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
http://www.filmsound.org/game-audio/
Game audio articles - links
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/2001/200103.shows.audioart.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-synthese/wanderle/Gestes/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/CU-Amiga_9711/SoundLab.html
image processing for audio
http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.2/articles1.2/moritz1.2.html
Mary Ellen Bute: Seeing Sound
http://www.picturesofsounds.com/
Pictures of Sound : 2 South American artists working on image/sound interactivity.
http://www.webcenter.ru/~vsoft/BitmapPlayer.htm
http://www.webcenter.ru/~vsoft/SndWarp.htm
bitmaps and waves - converters (PC software).
http://silvertone.princeton.edu/~penrose/soft/
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.mp3-tech.org/patents.html
Why MP3s suck
AFRICA AND SOUND
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/PrinciplesFr.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/artcul/030521music.asp?sector=ART CUL
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-Issue1/fink/fink-article.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-issue1/archives/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/HEADER/colophon.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/Computer-Music-Journal/index.html
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/modulations/timeline.html
Another timeline
http://www.musicplasma.com/
musicPlasma - interesting online tool of stylistic associations.
FIND OSX AUDIO SOFTWARE
Also check the VST , Audio Unit , RTAS and PLUGGO sections below.
http://www.kvraudio.com/
kVr - best source of audio software
http://www.osxaudio.com/
OSX Audio.com - articles and discussion on OSX audio
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/
Hitsquad - source of audio freeware/shareware/demos for all platforms.
http://www.macmusic.org/softs/softwares.php?lang=EN
MacMusic
FREE OSX SOFTWARE SITES
See also the VST , Audio Unit , RTAS 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 1.2.3 - 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://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 2.3.3 Trims MP3s - this is shareware with limited use in demo version.
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.macmusic.org/softs/share.php/lang/EN/id/1536/
MusicMath - a music calculator
http://www.plogue.com/
Plogue Bidule - Cross-platform audio recording/playback / manipulation host. Loads VSTs and AUs.
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-0.8 - 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://sourceforge.net/projects/synthtest
SynthTest - Loads one Audio Unit instrument and one audio unit effect.
http://kmt.hku.nl/~marcel/lownorth/software/timetoypro.html
TimeToy - timestretching
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://web.telia.com/~u86705274/pages/code-apps.html
VMK - virtual MIDI keyboard
http://www.xs4all.nl/~vanbeekw/vmk.html
virtual MIDI keyboard - PC equivalent
http://andydrabble.users.btopenworld.com/
zerius vocoder 1.1.2 - 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?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid =16
Other links to Reaktor ensembles.
See also the VST and PLUGGO sections below
HOSTS : free AUDIO EDITORS and SEQUENCERS
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity (PC/Mac/Linux) - multi-platform audio editor and processor
http://www.plogue.com/
Plogue Bidule (PC/Mac) - 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 (OSX)
http://www.xowave.com/
XO-Wave (OSX/Linux)
http://music2.arvidtp.net/Guide.html
Arvid's freeware list
http://www.ardour.org/
Ardour
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php?mode=results&st=adv&soft=h&type%5B%5D= 0&f=0&fe=0&linux=1&win=1&free=1&sf=0&receptor=&sort=2&rpp=60
Free Windows hosts (search)
http://www.sonicspot.com/beatsequencers.html
50 free sequencer downloads (mainly PC)
FREE PLUG-INS : PLUGGO
Freeware Pluggo instruments and FX can run inside most VST, RTAS and audio unit "hosts" (Logic, Cubase etc). (Mac / PC). Note: PC version only released Feb 2005.
http://www.cycling74.com/products/dlpluggo.html
Pluggo Free Runtime installer "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 (Pluggos not on site at Feb 2005)
http://www.wildfrontear.co.uk/plugs.html
The Lone Roger
http://gleetchplug.ienproject.com/
Tobor Experiment (new site under construction at Feb 2005)
http://www.angelfire.com/sd2/wheat/
Wheat's collection (a few ad pop-ups)
http://gdavis.dyndns.org/plugins.html
Greg Davis (Site down at Feb 2005)
http://refusesoftware.com/freeware.html
Refuse Software ("RTA" meter only)
http://www.laut8leise.de/asa.html
Laut & Leise (OS9 pluggos only)
FREE PLUG-INS : VST
http://www.kvraudio.com/get.php
kVr search page for plug-ins : Mac/PC
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=479837
Forum thread with links to ALL freeware OSX VSTs
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.kvraudio.com/index.php
KVR - Audio : best resource for plug-ins (VST etc)
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.sadglad.com/freevstplugins6.html
Ultimate List - good listing of freeware MAC/PC VSTs with pix.
http://www.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial/tutorialmain.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
www.betabugsaudio.com
Betabugs
FREE PLUG-INS : RTAS
Frohmage (filter)
http://www.ohmforce.com/UseFreeSoftware.do?action=listFrohmageImplemen tations
North Pole (filter / delay / distortion)
http://www.prosoniq.com/html/freebies.html
Inspector (meter)
http://www.elementalaudio.com/products/inspector/index.html
PSP Vintage Meter
http://www.prosoniq.com/html/freebies.html
Izotope Vinyl
http://izotope.com/products/audio/vinyl/
Plugsound Free ("rompler")
http://www.usbsounds.com/usb/exec/demo
(bottom of page)
Sampletank2 Free ("rompler")
http://www.sampletank.com/Main.html?STFreeDwn
http://www.sonoria.pl/jk/protools.html
jk_irr - AudioSuite IR reverb
jk_phone - LoPass/HiPass filter with saturation.
FREE PLUG-INS : AUDIO UNITS
http://www.sfrecording.com/plugins.htm
Free audio unit list
http://www.apulsoft.ch/freeports/index.php
More free audio units not covered in previous link
Free SOUNDFONTS
- http://www.hammersound.net/
- http://www.sf2midi.com/index.php?loginon=&searchword=&page=newreg
- http://www.soundfonts.it/?a=soundfonts&c=7
- http://www.soundfontdepot.com/
- http://www.patcharena.com/modules.php?name=Web_Links&l_op=viewlink&cid =25
- http://www.kvr-vst.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28724&postdays=0&postorde r=asc&start=0
- http://www.soundfontdepot.com/
- 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.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/showpage.php?name=soundfonts
- http://www.george44.freeserve.co.uk/SoundFonts.htm
- http://www.dangerousbear.com/freeware.html
- http://www.ntonyx.com/sf_f.htm
- http://www.soundfont.esmartmusic.com/
- http://www.emusicmag.com/soundfonts.php
- http://learjeff.com/sf/sf.html (good Rhodes!)
- http://kingstondrums.bombsquad.org/easyrider.html
Free IMPULSE RESPONSES
Noisevault
http://www.noisevault.com/index.php?page=3&sid=8b793d9139c071929371c0e 626860f16
Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/impulses/
Prosoniq (need AIFF to WAV conversion0
http://www.prosoniq.net/html/ir.html
Kaleidoscopy demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com./kaleidoskopy.php
12MB of IRs available in the demo of this plug
Lexicon PCM-90
http://homepage.hispeed.ch/zidee/
Echochamber
http://www.memi.de/echochamber/responses/index.html
KangImp
http://www.geocities.com/kangimp/
IR of the Month
http://www.cksde.com/p_6_250.htm
(monthly collections, includes good basic description of Impulse Response technology)
Fokke van Saane
http://www.xs4all.nl/~fokkie/IR.htm
(includes some great specialist spaces for sound designers)
Real Reverb
http://www.ressl.com.ar/realreverb/index_old.html#ir
(.exe files, you'll need a PC to unpack these)
Altiverb user's Impulse Response Library
http://altiverb.daw-mac.com/library.html
Sanitarium demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/sanitarium.php
(18 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
Spectral Relativity demo
http://www.spiritcanyonaudio.com/spectralrelativity.php
(11 MB of IRs in the demo version of this plug)
MoreVox
http://www.ilpoggiorecording.com/morevox/
Cyber Kitchen Sound Design Enterprise - via Voxengo
http://www.voxengo.com/pspace/
Samplicity
http://www.samplicity.com/download/index.html
re-201 space echo
http://www.device.antisound.net/?section=other
FREE EXPERIMENTAL SOUND SOFTWARE
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://www.cycling74.com/products/dlmaxmspmac.html
Max/MSP Runtime. Max/MSP is a graphical environment for music, audio, and multimedia. The free runtime version allows you to use applications built using Max.
http://cecilia.sourceforge.net/ AND
http://jeanpiche.com/software.htm
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/Classes/4850/Audio/UsingSH.html
Using SoundHack to change the Sampling Rate.
http://www.audibleoddities.com/twerk/index.php?p=sof
Audible Oddities by Twerk. Various apps, OS9/OSX
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/PC)
http://www.sineqube.com/software.html
Sineqube - experimental software (Mac OS9, OSX is "in development")
http://www.eden.rutgers.edu/~ajsapf/enordflux/
Enord Flux - "audio processor and creator of horrible noise and textures". Requires MAX/MSP Runtime.
http://www.audiosynth.com/
Supercollider - real time audio synthesis programming (OS9/X)
http://www.estatesound.com/content.php?page=software.php
Antiloop 7 - generates percussive audio and midi based on a set of probabilities given by the user.
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/+artistic_tool/+audiovisual/
Runme.org - more experimental software
http://www.jungulator.com/
Jungulator - Max/MSP built audio engine that "fuses DJ, sampling & sequencing tools". (MAC)
http://www.flexatone.net/computer.html
OX (mac)
http://home3.swipnet.se/~w-34826/
Frequency 1.0 - Draw into frequency of audio files, good experimental tool.
http://www.essl.at/works/Lexikon-Sonate.html
Lexikon-Sonate - algorithmic composition
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://www.noisesculpture.com/
How to make a noise : sound design and synthesiser programming. Free downloadable online book.
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/nordmodularbook/nm_book_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.smartelectronix.com/~destroyfx/dfx-au-utilities.html
Writing Audio Units (Marc Poirier from Destroy FX)
MUSIC COMMUNITIES
http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/index.php
kVr forums
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/
OSX Audio.com - good source of info and forums for OSX audio.
http://www.harmony-central.com/
Harmony Central
http://audioshots.com/auditorium/index.php
The Auditorium
http://audioshot.com/
AudioShot - cost effective web hosting for audio and art
http://www.versionist.com/
Reggae
http://www.dubroom.org/rastafari/
Dubroom.com
INSTRUCTIONAL MUSIC STUFF
music "theory" (the 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.dolmetsch.com/theoryintro.htm
Music Theory and History online
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/
Chordhouse - chords & scales for guitar and piano
http://andyvn.ath.cx/Software-Aquallegro.php
Aquallegro - music theory teaching software
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/prime/Pages/Ebony/SoftEbony.html
Ebony&Ivory - software that provides information about chords
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
http://www.vibrationdata.com/piano.htm
Notes as frequencies
http://www.musique.umontreal.ca/personnel/Belkin/bk/index.html
A practical guide to music composition
http://acapella.harmony-central.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid= 361618&perpage=20&pagenumber=1
the composition thread
rhythm
http://breakbeat.hattrixx.co.uk/
Breakbeats - the guide
http://www.cnmat.berkeley.edu/~ladzekpo/Foundation.html
african drumming Foundation course
http://www.tubabmuso.nl/english/index.html
Tubab Muso - westafrican percussion
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/music/drumbeat/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.
http://www.cactusjack.com/
the Hip Rhythm Digest
playing keyboards
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/
Chordhouse - virtual piano chord building
http://www.learnjazzpiano.com/
learn Jazz piano
http://www.musicplay.com/
Musicplay - Play ze piano
http://www.pianonanny.com/
Pianonanny
http://www.telacommunications.com/nutshell/music/keyboard.htm
Virtual Piano chords
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.computermusic.co.uk/tutorial/tutorialmain.asp
Computer Music tutorials
http://www.audioforums.com/
Audioforums.com - online forum full of rude, nasty people
http://www.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 needed to know :)
http://www.audiotechnica.com/using/mphones/guide/index.html
All about MICROPHONES
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/Jul03/articles/firstmic.asp?session=1e ed11d65d3bf882a9d5be797f2df944
More about microphones
http://www.headwize.com/
All about HEADPHONES
http://dolby.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/dolby.cfg/php/enduser/std_alp.php
Dolby and surround info
http://www.kellyindustries.com/diy_5_1.html
5.1 surround on a CDR
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~wareing/3daudio.htm
Audio and 3D sound links
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/theoryofreverb/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.jackosx.com/
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) - VST plugin for networking audio.
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
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. OSX version also available.
http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/extras/
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.mac.org/utilities/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 many plugs.
MIDI FILES
http://www.tweakheadz.com/how_to_get_started_with_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.naturalvoices.att.com/demos/
AT&T Natural Voices Text-to-Speech Engine demo
http://neuro.caltech.edu/~lshams/demo.html
Sound-Induced Illusory flashing
http://www.media.uio.no/personer/arntm/McGurk_english.html
Tricks with audiovisual lipsync
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/
"Digital Needle - A Virtual Gramophone" - unusual use of vinyl records
http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/indian.htm
The Indian Drum machine
http://mrtg.planetmirror.com/pub/9beetstretch/
9 beet stretch - 24 hour Beethoven - good source of string samples!
MUSIC INDUSTRY
http://www.dorumalaia.com/10000recordlabels.htm
10,000 record labels
http://www.instrumentality.com/themanual.html
How to get a number 1 hit - KLF's classic "manual".
http://www.negativland.com/albini.html
Why the music industry sucks
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.audiofill.com
AudioFill
SOUND FX LINK SITES
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.grsites.com/sounds/
Absolute Sound Effects archive
http://www.hollywoodedge.com/the_acb/webpage.cfm?&DID=9&WebPage_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 ? MAJOR POPUP WARNING
http://www.acoustica.com/sounds.htm
Acoustica - smaller collection
http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com/noflash.htm
A1 free sound effects
SPECIALIST SOUND SOURCE SITES
http://nauticom.net/www/mudhut/game.html
Some gaming FX
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches/index.html
Classic speeches from the History Channel
