http://www.madtracker.org/main.php
Very cool tracker. MadTracker is the advanced version of FastTracker.
http://renoise.com/
Renoise is a great new tracker which is easy to use. "It is the best tracker
I have used". -djlectro
http://www.dooleydrums.com/
The purpose of this site is to provide free drum loops and free drum samples to all musicians in the cleanest format possible.
http://www.e-drummer.net/freeloops.html
lots of good acoustic drumloops
http://meanbeat.cjb.net/
here you will find a variety of samples, vut mostly drum loops
http://www.superloops.com/listen.htm
55 drum loops in mp3 format.
http://www.modarchive.com/waveworld/drums.shtml
acustic "one shot" drums, samples from old great drum machines.
Acapellas:
http://www.music-4-u-all.com/
then click on download section and you are in :-)
http://www.music.albaniandj.com/Shqip/Acapella.htm
acapellas are in RM format :-(
Thanks a lot to Rastropchuk, Spoz and DJ'Lectro for the info and links.
Audio Software
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Bome’s Midi Keyboard: an useful tool for those who can’t afford a MIDI keyboard, it let’s you play a synth from your PC keyboard.
http://www.bome.com/midi/keyboard/
Propellerheads: one of the most popular music production software developers, made programs like Reason or Recycle
http://www.properllerheads.se
Steinberg: Top quality audio programs.
http://www.steinberg.net
Freeware VST’s: Free plugins for your audio software:
http://moritz-sounds.de.vu/
Music Production Forums
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Dogs on Acid Grid: the world largest dance music community, mainly drum & bass the worlds top producers post there. Must-know.
The Grid (the main production forum): http://www.dogsonacid.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=4
The Grid FAQ (huge linkbase for shitloads of info):
http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid=102340
Dnbforum.com: quite useful forums, lot of links to other sites:
http://www.dnbforum.com<br>
Synthvox: an electronic music forum which focuses on computer based music production. You will also find 20 FREE loops each month, remix competitions, free promotional tools, and great people from all over the globe:
http://www.synthvox.com
Inta-audio music forums: Midi, Soundcards, Keyboards, Pro-audio:
http://www.inta-audio.com/phpBB/
Breakbeat.co.uk forums: check it out, can’t go wrong:
http://forum.breakbeat.co.uk/forum/
Drum n bass drumming: for those who are interested in playing live dnb drums:
http://dnbdrumming.proboards33.com/index.cgi
Sounddesign, Mastering, Production Sites, Guides & Tutorials
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Kief.net: good info ‘bout production in general and studio equipment
http://www.kief.net
Sound design basics: A good overview and a starting point about understanding sound design, synthetizing etc.:
http://www.theothersidebbs.com/html/Music%20Spaces/Booth/Sound_Design/Sound_Design.html
Synthzone: Good place to get some hardware gear info:
http://www.synthzone.com/
An interesting homepage which has some good music related articles, inluding how to make own music instruments:
http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/~dhavlena/
Advanced modular synthetizer programming guide: hella lot of info here about synthetising:
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~clark/nordmodularbook/nm_book_toc.html
Paradox jungle tutorials:
http://www.paradox-jungle.co.uk/tutorials.php
Tutorials on MIDI and music synthesis:
http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/tutorial.html
SAE: Reference material about audio recording, soundengineering and stuff like that:
http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
SPINWARP.COM: a free resource for all producers of electronic music, from wide-eyed beginners to jaded professionals:
http://www.spinwarp.com/
Dnbproduction: A starting site for drum&bass production, give it a shot, they have a good IRC channel @ eFnet #dnbproduction:
http://www.dnbproduction.net
Sound-on-sound: You fuckin’ don’t know bout this??? Check it out right now, the worlds most professional production magazine on-line!
http://www.soundonsound.com
Good FAQ, and some other links, unfortunately the site is under construction for a long time;
http://www.dnbproduction.com
Reasonfreaks: not only for Reason users, refills, tutorials, articles:
http://www.reasonfreaks.com/
Professional sound design guide by Dik J. Hermesand Maxim Schram, more than you can imagine:
http://www.ipo.tue.nl/homepages/dhermes/lectures/SD/
Paradox’s EQ & mastering tutorial: Superb article series about Eqing and mastering music in general.
http://www.dnbscene.com/articles.php?mode=display&id=79
Dub bass: interesting production tips not only for Dub music:
http://www.interruptor.ch/dub_bass.shtml
Samples
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More samples than you will ever need in your lifetime, huge sample links archive here:
http://www.slamevents.com/speak/viewtopic.php?t=16029
Music theory & instruments
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The piano education page: wanna learn how to play a piano?:
http://pianoeducation.org/index.html
Musictheory.net: learn, bitch:
http://www.musictheory.net/
Other
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Got a mindlock and lost your creativity? Find some funny shit here, that can help you out:
http://www.palace.net/%7Ellama/oblique/
Bibliography on synthesizers, Midi, Computer and Electronic Music: some books that you might want to read:
ftp://ftp.cs.ruu.nl/pub/MIDI/DOC/bibliography.html
Tutorials: Nearly 100 different and very useful tutorials on PC music:
http://www.dnbproduction.net/tuthelp.html
Thanks to [SEAL] for those links
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