Music Making
- Body Rythmn Beatbox Free electronic beatbox for the PC
- CDDB Database The definitive Music CD database
- Computer Music UK Online version of the famous UK magazine. Contains a great selection of tutorials, reviews and articles revolving around the world of computer-based music.
- Cubase Forums Need help with Cubase? This is your best bet :)
- Find MIDIs Want a cheesy midi of Radiohead? You've come to the right place :)
- Future Music Online version of Future's electronic music magazine. Contains some decent tutorials and articles.
- Harmony Central One of the oldest, biggest and best resources for muscians on the web. Contains everything you need to know.
- Home Recording Connection HRC brings you a constantly growing catalog of home recording tips, studio equipment reviews and discussion forums to help you with analog and digital audio recording in your home studio.
- Home Recording Forums Great set of forums for the amateur music maker. Need advice about your production or what mic to buy? This is the place.
- Music Search A search engine dedicated to music. You want and it will find.
- ShareWare Music Machine Despite being pop-up hell this site does actually contain the best archive of shareware and demo music software out there. If you want some music software this place will have it.
- SongStuff.Com Songstuff is a free musician's resource. It offers support for songwriters and musicians;provides information about creative, technical and business issues; music forum; artists ads and more...
- Sonic Foundry Homepage of the software geniuses behind SoundForge and Acid.
- Steinberg Creators of Cubase, Wavelab, Nuendo and the VST format.
- The Cause Music Forum Cool, laid back forums for relaxed discussion of music production at all levels.
- The Chord House Brilliant concept site that lets you work out every possible chord for either guitar and piano and then shows you how to play it. Indispensable for any musician!
- ZeD Great arts site run by the Canadian public broadcast channel CBC. Lots of user-made art, music and movies. What's more, you can upload your own stuff (MP3's etc.) for free!
- Zero Decibel Home of the some great drum kits, including the awesome Natural Studio Kit
General resources for making and producing music
Reason
- Discovering Reason Reason tutorials from the masters themselves. The Props made Reason so they know what they are talking about :)
- DocTech's Malstrom Tutorial The best Malstrom tutorial on the net. 'Nuff said.
- Dorum Malaia Doru is famous in Reason circles for his dodgy beard and also his great selection of free, quality refills. No collection is complete without these :)
- Guitar Sound Collection Vol 1. Want to rock out on Reason? They you have to have this awesome guitar sample refill. What's more it's free!
- MelodieFabriek Marco 'Raapie' Raaphorst's Reason site, full of good info and refills.
- Peff.Com Great Reason fansite containing some really cool refills.
- Pink Noise Refills Free and commercial refills from the studios of Pink Noise.
- Reason Area Refills Yet more great Reason refills. What's more, they're free!
- Reason Banks A relatively new site devoted to quality samples and refills for Reason.
- Reason Engineering and Mastering "the beginners guide to engineering and mastering you Reason tune". Good guide for the perectionist wanting to get the best out of their reason tracks.
- Reason Fan The most famous French Reasoner has a great site packed with really cool refills. A must!
- Reason Freaks Are you a freak? Do you like Reason? Then this is the site for you!
- Reason Station Simply the best Reason community site on the web. Contains a huge archive of user-made Reason tracks (which you can add to yourself), as well as some lively and active forums. You'll find me and my tracks hanging out here often :)
- Reason Subtractor Cool little site describing the various waveforms in the Subtractor.
- ReBirth Museum Propellerheads site dedicated to ReBirth - now available free for download!
- Ryk's Malstrom Patches Reason's maddest patch maker comes up with some insane Malstrom patches. All hail Ryk The Kreator, for he is krazy!
Resources for Propellerhead's Reason software
Audio Samples
- AT&T Text-to-Speech Converter Converts text into Stephen Hawking like speech patterns. Great for weird samples, especially if you vocode them. I'm serious!
- Awe32 Sounfonts Cool FTP server chocked full of soundfonts. Tons of stuff to play with here.
- BreakBeat Paradise Cool home-grown site devoted to collections of free breakbeats, samples and loops. A bit of a poupouri, but you'll usually find something here!
- Cobweb Audio Samples Quite sparse but contains a few goodies, including some acapellas
- Free Sound Project The Freesound Project is a collaborative database of Creative Commons licensed sounds. Freesound focusses only on sound, not songs.
- Hammersound One of the best collection of Soundfonts on the net. You won't be disapointed :)
- HQ Samples Most famous for it's collection of rare acapella samples. You need 'em, they've got 'em :)
- Kiarchive Soundfonts Russian FTP site that looks a bit dodgy but never-the-less has lots of soundfonts up for grabs ;)
- Loops 4 Free Directory of free loops, samples and sounds.
- Loops Net Great portal site that contains links to loads of sample sites. You could spend weeks browsing all the links :)
- Phat Drum Loops Awesome collection of break beats and old vinyl samples. Sample rate is quite low, but don't let that deter you.
- Pocket Fuel Awesome sample site that contains lots of commerical-quality free samples in both .wav, .mp3 and .rx2 format. Only snag is you have to sign up, but that's free, and it's worth it.
- Splendid Grand Soundfont A brilliant, free grand piano soundfont available in either a 72MB or a wopping 132MB format.
- Wav Search Engine Useful little search engine for finding wav files. Great for turning up weird stuff :p
Samples, soundfonts and loops for your sampling pleasure
VSTi Synths
- Crystal VSTi Modular Synth Crystal is a semi-modular VSTi software synthesizer featuring both subtractive synthesis and frequency modulation (FM) synthesis. Very good, and free!
- CyberFree Sampler Polyphonic multi-timbral sample player for Massiva and VST host applications
- Delay Llama Delay Lama is the first VST-instrument to offer both vocal synthesis and a real-time animated 3D interface. This is very cool!
- dmi Flute A physical modelled flute 'capable of producing some wicked multiphonics.'
- GalactiX Synth A 16 voice polyphonic subtractive virtual VST Synth.
- Klangformer Ninja Synth 'Professional' virtual analogue synth VSTi. With a cool name.
- Krakli Software Synth & FX Plugins The brilliantly named Krakli Software offer a wide range of VSTi Synths and VST FX, including quite a few that are totally free. Highlights include the horror-film inspired The Gargoyle and the unqiue interface of the RGB Synth, whose tones are generated by RGB colour values.
- Lin FreeAlpha Polyphonic Synth The FreeAlpha features a subtractive design with special attention being paid to recreating the warmth and feel typically found in early-1980s analog synthesizers within the most modern music production environment.
- LoopAZoid Simple sample player VSTi that's a 'joy to use'.
- Manytone 3S Sampler A 24 voice polyphonic sample player VSTi.
- MDA E-Piano An electric rhodes piano from the MDA boys. Great for free!
- Muon Atom The Muon Atom is a simple and compact two-oscillator polyphonic synthesiser plugin. Very good.
- NovaKill VSTi Synth Two free VSTi synths, one mono and one polyphonic.
- Onkot: Percussion Synthesizer A freeware VSTi Plug-in for PC. Inspired by a modern classic silver/carmine red electronic beatbox, Onkot is a 4 part DSP synth and 5 part sample playback synthesizer.
- The DirectX Files Comprehensive directory of free and commercial DirectX audio plugins. Very handy.
- Triangle I & II Two great freeware synths - one mono and one polyphonic.
A comprehensive list of some of the best free VSTi synths
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