Music
Emagic's Logic Audio
DigiDesign
Digital Audio, various links
Virtual instruments and VST plug-ins
- Native Instruments
- Koblo - The Tokyo-suite of analog synths
- BitHeadz, Inc. - Retro, Unity and lots of other wild stuff
- Chaosynth Demo - a new concept in music-world
- CellSynth, very cool software synthesizer
- SFX Machine - sound effects
- VSamp Home Page - a virtual sampler
- Ces's VST Plug-Ins - an amazing collection of free VST plug-ins
- www.mda-vst.com - VST plug-ins galore
- MightyWight Productions - Many useful links: vst, synths, samplesites and more
- Polyfractus - Dragan Petrovic's free vst plugins
- Palancar VST Plugins - Mostly Mac and Windows
- DigitalFishPhones: free VST plugins
- Greenoak: various free plugins, including the rather amazing Crystal VTS-instrument
- DestroyFX: various well-written unconventional free VST plugins, many with source code
- PSP Audioware: some professional free plugins
- b i t s h i f t | a u d i o, makers of pHATmatik PRO
- Urs Heckmann: home of More Feedback Machine, a VST source code archive, and more
- Rumpelraush Täips: free drawbar organ, vintage string ensemble
- Big Tick Audio Software: more free plugins...
MIDI, synths and software
Samples
- Free Samples Links Page - Linksite, some overlap with this listing
- Sampling Zone - Linksite, pretty much regularly updated, and again overlapping this listing
- Top 100 Audio Samples Sites - a huge link site. Tip: do a "list all sites" for the sample ring link at the bottom
- Kalava Drum Archive - one of the classics, still good though
- Analogue samples - another classic site, loads of sounds
- w a v e f o r m . d k - lots of samples invarious categories, easy to browse
- samplelibrary.net - all sorts of stuff, sampler files, synth patches, wavefiles, MP3s of members, etc.
- Espuma's Samplezone - pretty slow sometimes, those NBCI/XOOM sites, worth a look though maybe
- SoundFactory - again slow NBCI/Xoom, but a lot of good kicks and snares, from a fellow Logic user
- J.P. Hovercraft's Mellotron Sample Page - perfectly looped real mellotron samples, a definite must-have!
- Looza's free music - 500 Loops and quite some other samples
- Music Machines - if you click on "gear" you will find descriptions of quite some old drum machines, some of them also come with samplesets
- SampleNet - quite some samples in clear categories, and a search engine too
- sample arena - links and samples
- Galactica 2000 - single shots from a lot electronic drum devices (uses Java and doesn't work with Netscape 6)
- Galactica 2000 - as above, but directly accesses the samples page -- which does work with NS6 ...
- MeanBeat - a lot of individual shots, also some acoustic ones, usually hard to find
- Phatso's Place - many loops, different quality but nice descriptions
- echochamber's exs24-samplerinstruments - (in German) great EXS24 instruments. Also fine for non-EXS-owners as the samples are included as wavefiles
- Loopasonic - Over 250 free bass loops, drum loops, guitar loops and samples
- e-drummer - some loops, some sounds, played and recorded from a Roland V-Drum Kit, plus a funny little PC program doing kinda random midi drum patterns
- SoundCentral - more like multimedia files, mixed varieties and qualities
- Musical Drugstore - quite some - the actual sample links are in an easy to browse index menu
- 714 Multimedia Productions - some samples in 16 bit, 44kHz WAV format
- Sample City - individual shots, FX sounds, just take a look
- weebl's junk - Flash-site, and samples in mp3 format
- Spectrasonics - a free EXS24 and Soundfont loop every month
- Brothercake's Links - Sample Libraries
- Ontology's free EXS24 instruments and samples
- Cone EXS24 page: some EXS instruments, and links to sample sites
- Grebbestad Church: the G-Town Sampling Project -- free samples recortded in a church. Long downloads...
- z o o l a b: free downloads of samples from the Virus B, Waldorf Pulse and Nord Modular
- saschafrank.de: Various samples and EXS instruments, including instruments to match the samples from zoolab (see previous link)
- Audio Sample Library - lots of links to sample sites
Thanks to Sascha Frank, a fellow Logic user, for collecting and commenting many of the above sample links.
Bands, encyclopedias, etc.
(c) H.J. Veenstra 2001-2002.
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