Tons of links for musicians!
FOR MUSICIANS
- This list is not updated anymore.
I hope most of the links will still work.
- Even if some commercial sites
are listed here, the main purpose of this list is to gather contributing
sites & shareware resources about music.
esteban@mygale.org
désolé pour les
français, cette page est en anglais... faute de temps,
je ne pense pas la traduire dans l'avenir.
Updated:
= I like it
$ = Commercial site
SEARCH
ENGINES
- Yahoo! ... The reference.... go here to find all commercial
sites not listed here.
- AltaVista:
Main Page MY favorite
in search
- AltaVista: Page principale
European mirror (french/ EN FRANCAIS)
- Inference
Find! All
search engines together!!! VERY FAST parallel search (my 2nd
favorite)
- MetaCrawler
Searching
Same than above, NEW VERSION, EXCELLENT.
- FTP
search
GREAT!!! Search trough thousands of ftp sites!
(LIGHTNINGLY FAST!!!)
- Filez Same stuff than FTPsearch, but slower and less
efficient
- HotBot Efficient, but SLOW!!!
- GAIS
FTP File Search Search FTP
sites. Not so good than FTP search, but you should try it, if
the first don't make a hit on your target.
- Ecila,
recherche des sites francophones Un moteur de recherche, pour nous,
les français :^)
- Nomade Idem...
- Lycos,
Inc. Home Page
- Infoseek
ULTRA NEW! Good search engine
- Infoseek
Guide Searching by activity, like
yahoo.
- WWW
Music Database Search by album/artist/band.
Not pretty, but efficient!
- Whoopie!! Audio Directory
Cool audio/music search engine. You
can specify the sound format and the categories of music you
search
- MusicSearch A music-only search engine
- WhoWhere?
Email Addresses Find the e-mail
of your best friend or of your worst enemy... don't expect
too much of this...
- Snoopie Much slower than FTPsearch, but smarter. You can
search by type of file (GIFs, progs, JPGs, WAVs, etc...)
- shareware.com
The way to find shareware on the
Internet Well, ONE of the way, maybe...
SYNTHS AND MIDI
- SYNTH
ZONE
Cool site! Info, software, links, patches,
mailing-lists, and everything about your favorite synth!
- Music
Machines Excellent
site, with software, drivers, samples, mods, patches....
- Welcome
to Sonic State Excellent
site, with a synth search engine, and lots of info, drivers,
etc...
- The Virtual Synthesizer Museum Online museum about vintage synthesizers
from all over the world.
- VINTAGE SYNTH EXPLORER Vintage synthesizer pics, descriptions,
RealAudio samples...
- MIDI Home Page
- MIDIWORLD
- The
MIDI Farm Internet
- Harmony
Central A great
site for every musician. news, review of instruments, techniques,
links, reference. Neat stuff.
- Electronic
Music Foundation Big,
with many reference docs.
- Thierry rochebois Homepage Interesting
french homepage, speaking about synths, computers...
- Paia
electronics How to build your own
synth!
- Welcome to ES1 Good
site: All you want about E-mu synths/samplers infos, sounds &
patches, software...
- ROLAND
INTERNATIONAL $ Damn... it's slow!
- The
QuadraSynth Pages Sounds, patches,
software, etc... for the Alesis Quadrasynth.
- KORG Wavestation
Korg WS homepage... lots of resources & links
- COMPUTER CONTROLLED
Unofficial tb-303 homepage, with various info on how to customize
the grey box!
- E-mu
Home Page $ Official E-mu page
- Electronic Music Studios $
EMS official site, with interesting
info on how to customize your old VCS3 or synthi-A!
- Steinberg
France $
- Novation Synthesizers
$
- Akai
EMI Division $
If you like the cold sound of akai
samplers, and have one, check it out...
- SoundWave:
Pro Audio's Web Space Yeah, it's
pro. But it could be useful...
- ProAudio
Network
- TechOnline
Homepage Info about DSP industry
and technology. For pros.
- R& S JumpStation: General MIDI Information
- AWE32
- The Soundblaster AWE32 Homepage Unofficial AWE32
cool site. Infos, sources, sbks, sounds, wavs, utils...
- AWE32
Homepage Soundfonts, sbks, and
midi tips on how to control this bad-documented thing
- MC
- Murex' Cave Technical
info on the AWE 32, and other GM devices. Links.
- The Soundblaster AWE32 Homepage Another AWE32 unofficial page
- Creative
Labs official site It's officially
SLOW!
- Thebest for your AWE soundcard
VIRTUAL
SYNTHS
FREEWARE &
SHAREWARE
SAMPLES &
PATCHES
- Dafe's sample page A list of samples ressources over the
net. Lots of stuff here!
- weazle world FREE DRUM'n BASS samples!
- Soundwave's samples for professionals and trackers
- MAZ
FastTracker Instruments Page
- Directory
of /pub/sgroup Unofficiall FTP
about Roland S7x0 samplers. discussions, software, and roland
sample disks
- Index
of /libdata/ Here comes some others
Roland samples disks...
- Directoryof
/midi/patches Many
FREE patches for many synths! (D10,D5,D50,DX7,ESQ1,FB01,JV8,K1,K4,K5,M1,SC55,SQ1,SY22,SY55,Sy77,SY85,T3,TX81Z,U20,WS,X5...)
- The
QuadraSynth Pages Sounds, patches,
software, etc... for the Alesis Quadrasynth
- Contents
of Korg Patch Area lots
of patches & soundbanks for various KORG synths.
- Kenneth Petersen Homepage
Some synth patches to download
- Patchman Music Home Page
$ Here you can buy patches/soundbanks for
your favorite synth
- InVision
Interactive $
Sound effects banks.
- East
West Sounds On Line $ Here,
you can listen to sound effects and drum loops in RealAudio,
and buy them online. Includes a very useful search engine by
tempo.
- DOTCOM Compose
drum patterns graphically, and download the loop!
- Landmark
Sample Archive
- SoundAmerica
ETHNIC INSTRUMENTS
& DRUMS
- The
tabla base Everything about tablas:
infos, links, ftp sites, search engine, patterns, etc...
- Dreamtime
The Didjeridu W3 Server A
site entirely devoted to didjeridu playing, players, hints, etc...
EXCELLENT!
- The Didgeridoo Page
Links on didgeridoo stuff and artists
- Native American Musical Instruments $ Here you can learn more about different kinds
of native american drums, and (mostly) buy them!
- Ritual
Hut: Musical Instruments $ New
age oriented server, there's the worst and the best here... but
the instruments page is interesting.
- Launeddas
Associazione Culturale Sonus de Canna
Sardinian wind instrument Web page... For the normal U.S. people,
I inform you that sardinia is a great island near Italy. Who
cares? Er... not me, but you can learn about circular breathing
technique here...
- The Bodhrán Page
The Bodhràn is the hertbeat of Irish music... info about
it.
- The
Drums and Percussion Page Info,
groove archive, faqs, etc... about drums and percs
- Lark In The Morning
$ Lark In The Morning is a musician's service founded
in 1974 that specializes in hard to find musical instruments,
music and instructional materials.
- Ethnic
Musical Instruments $ Catalog
of ethnic instruments to buy... (we're in a world where money
rules!)
- NativeInstruments
- DrumMusic
Server Index
MUSIC AROUND THE
WORLD
TECHNO! note: It's difficult for me to maintain these links, because
of their short-lived nature. Please mail me if a link is dead,
or if you discovered a cool one!
IN FRANCE:
Other sites with
music related links:
;^)
FRIENDS:
- Franck
MOREL HOME PAGE He is a talented
computer-graphist, and a friend of mine. Nice designed page.
- FLOKHAN
WORLD He is another talented
computer-graphist, and another friend...
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