Music related information overload

This is an adaptation of a very helpful post by "Hymn23". Unfortunately, the originally included links to music related discussions on the old forum didn't work anymore, so this is (for) now all based off-forum.

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Plugins
KVR - http://www.kvraudio.com/ - tons of FREE effetcs/programs
http://www.plugindex.de/ - [German] - nice overview

Instruments
ymVST - http://www.preromanbritain.com/ymvst/ - a cool plugin for atari chipsounds
Sun Ra - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/490.html  - http://www.uv.es/ruizcan/p_vst.htm -  really cool synth
Crystal - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/219.html - http://www.greenoak.com/crystal/download.html - just nice
Lazy Snake - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1338.html - very good electric piano, just great
Sfxr - http://www.cyd.liu.se/~tompe573/hp/project_sfxr.html - very good tool for making soundeffects
Tweakbench - http://www.tweakbench.com/ - ritual, field, pippo, ... amazing plugs, cool design.
Mainliner - http://device.arcanedevice.com/?sig_gen - dnb, breakbeat, bass synth...
Magical 8bit Plug- http://www.ymck.net/english/download/index.html - plug-in style synthesizer for making 8bit chiptune music, for VSTi supporting applications

Effects
Fuzzplus - http://www.audiodamage.com/downloads/ - nice distortion/overdrive
arcDev - http://www.device.arcanedevice.com/ - just check everything! (noise!)
dblue glitch - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1904.html - amazing glitch thing.. hehe.
Echomania - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/745.html - great for dub music
Tape Delay - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/747.html - great delay
iZotope - http://www.kvraudio.com/get/571.html - vinyl simulating effect
DestroyFX Buffer Override  - http://destroyfx.smartelectronix.com/ - destroy.

Mac related
Fish fillets - http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.php?item=2&subItem=5 - mastering, compressor thing
Gleetchplug - http://www.gleetchplug.com/Gleetchplug/HOME.html


Audio Editor
Wavepad Sound Editor - http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html#102 - [Windows/Mac]
Audacity - http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ - probably you know it

Samples
Freesound - http://freesound.iua.upf.edu/ - tons of samples

Tuts, Videos, Articles

Future Music Videos - http://www.futuremusic.co.uk/page/futuremusic?entry=fm_vids_all_over_the#comments - check them

Reaktor
Macro montage - http://www.matsc.net/Kurs/...reaktor%20web1.htm
Build a Nord Lead! - http://www.audionetwork.be/tutorials/reaktor/build_a_nord_lead_with_reaktor_4.html
Grain Cloud Reaktor - http://www.matsc.net/Kurs/.../Grain%20Cloud.htm
http://reaktortips.blogspot.com/ - Reaktor blog Tips

Ableton
http://www.ableton.com/downloads - really nice tuts + movies
http://sonictransfer.com/vocoder-tutorial-ableton-live.shtml - How to use a vocoder in ableton live

Reading
http://www.mindspring.com/~mrichter/dynamics/dynamics.htm - The Death of Dynamic Range
http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/interviews/futmus95.html - Brian Eno - godfather of ambient music
http://instruct1.cit.cornell.edu/courses/eceprojectsland/STUDENTPROJ/2002to2003/lil2/ - Intelligent MIDI Sequencing with Hamster Control 
http://www.sequencer.de/specials/intelligent_or_not_at_all.html - from intelligent electro to industrial to .. talking about gear and stuff like that.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/2360/tracts/neutral.html - Is Music neutral?

Blogs
http://c64music.blogspot.com/ - C64 Music
http://createdigitalmusic.com/ - very informative
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/ - obscure and funny things

Chords/Scales
http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/ - Emadd9? No Problem. Mela Sulini Scale in F? No Problem.

step-by-step
http://www.kvraudio.com/wiki/?id=Drones+for+beginners - step-by-step tutorial to creating an electronic drone-based composition

This will surely be very useful. :3

I added "Magical 8bit Plug- http://www.ymck.net/english/download/index.html - plug-in style synthesizer for making 8bit chiptune music, for VSTi supporting applications".
If you think you found something worth adding, you can post it in this thread with a short description and I might get to including it some day.

Blips.
Gaeel showed me that.

Also, Reaktor is a very expensive and complex piece of software, if you have it on your machine and don't know what you're doing, then you're pretty obviously using a pirated version.

If you want to use a modular synthesis application that is free, then go for Puredata :
Downloads here : http://puredata.info/downloads (get pd-extended, it comes with more objects)
Beginner tutorials here : http://obiwannabe.co.uk/html/music/musictuts.html

This is great. Thanks a bunch!

I've shortened a few of the urls so it doesn't generate scrollbars.

Um, does anyone have a link to that big sample pack from Nifflas? It had a whole bunch of useful stuff in it, but I can't find the link anywhere.

EDIT: Never mind, I found it. This is the link, if anyone's curious.

Oh, could you add AnvilStudios? It's great for making music. :3

Oh, could you add AnvilStudios? It's great for making music. :3

If you can give a link, we'll add it.

Sorry for asking such a stupid question... But are there plugins for MMF?

Sorry for asking such a stupid question... But are there plugins for MMF?

No. These VST plugins are music plugins for music creation software.

Thanks.
I'm assuming these will work with FL Studio? (VSTs)

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Tweakbench is nice.

Yep. Almost anything out there can host VSTs.

wow, tweak bench is really useful thanks!