AudioOak: developer community

BBC interviewing Tim Exile

• KVR's listing of “Made with SynthMaker” VST(i)s, listed as newest first.
• A few not really official examples
• SM’s staff module developer, Stefan, won second place with 2006’s Developer Challange with his Anna synth.

• 696Audio (IO Singularity)
• Acrobatics (Alieno)
• Angular Momentum (3-Track, Freehand, Table Synth, Wavedraw, Trance Gizmo, KarBass, TB-30X, Unitable, MAX-EQ)
• Antress (Modern Series)
• Atom Splitter Audio (Pulsation, G8-R, Dune Delay, Distroyr, Clip-R, Mechaverb, SimpliChorus, Flang-3R)
• Autodafe (Autodafe Synth)
• Aymat (Mango, Colossus)
• Base Designs (VBA)
• MiniSoftMusik (UniRetro, UniRetroPro)
• Bootsy Signature Series (Rescue, TesslaSE, Density, BootEQ)
• BTC Audio (Valsier)
• BV Music (BV-XX synth series)
• CacoFX (ChordME, AffectedME)
• Chironex Audio Works (Tower One, Breeze, Buzzkill)
• Clear Complex (Transistor)
• d3ck (n.Slice)
• dmu audio (Donkey Mutation) (Arcade2, Sinus)
• Dr. Speaker Blower (Lusus, Invictus)
• DSK Music (DrumZ MachineZ, SixSenZe, Odisea, ThoR, PleyadeS, Darkness Theory, OranZe)
• DyVision Works (DyScratch)
• Ftec-Audio (HV-Formant)
• Fragile Audio (Shiver)
• Film Composer (Freddy Music) (Precog, DanceMaster2, Reverber, ExtremeDelay)
• GaryG (bini, Dandelion)
• Gersic (Preparation P, Pressure)
• C. Hackl (dead link) (DrumBox, GrooveBox, SuperSaw II, Church Organ, Stereo Steinway Piano, Future, Matrix)
• DJ-Grobe (MonoTouchLive _HW)
• G-Sonique (Renegade, Alien 303, xBass4000L)
• Hypersynth (HyperSID _HW)
• Stefan Hållén (Anna, Bagels)
• Idrisoft (RRL1 Digital Delay, RRL3 Multi Tap Delay)
• Jobromedia (S.A.N.E. FM, Digiwave)
• Klem (Aeon)
• Lithium Sound (Rastabox, Blaster)
• Magalov Audio (dead link) (Grain-Skan, Red Choir, MASB Compressor)
• mdk (Andromeda Strain)
• Maik Menz (Loop Drive, Tap Drive)
• MKDR (Matti's VSTs) (Q-Pack)
• Mykrasound (Chorus, Stereo Echo, PEQ)
• Naranuri (model-VSTs by kbbaek) (1)
• Narahana (model-VSTs by kbbaek) (2)
• NUSofting (Acidome, Marimka)
• NX-Sound (NX-Synth One)
• Oddson (Karplus Plus)
• The Outhouse (Inerthia, Elatua)
• RealSynth (OctaVirus, Pianguid, Synthdruid, Phazuid series)
• rlma-labs (Pitch Black)
• DJ Scoto (Old School)
• Shief (The Shief Synth, The Humble Bass Guitar)
• Softegg/BibaSoft (PhaseBender)
• Stelsi (Stelsi Virtual Synth)
• TDA - Tention Digital Audio (…)
• Tekky Synths (sYnYx, AuToBaSsYx)
• TranceTutorial (RadioActive, Double-O, 2 Step)
• Zynewave (Nucleum)

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• C. Hackl (WaveSizer)

UK mag ComputerMusic has a ton of beginner synthesis & studio & Advanced production PDFs
The Production WIKI

Sound on Sound magazine show you their Synth Secrets

Making Succesful Interfaces Skinning at angstrom’s old SE WiKi
Screen Caliper measuring tool
Atrise Golden Section Handy layout tool

Kay's list by Windows OS version
Styopkin's list of WinXP fonts with filename
2007 survey from CodeSyle
Visibone automated font survey

RLH's Knob Render v.3 PRO non-destructive Photoshop helper
Mademoiselle Knobs older knob animator
The Knoberator more advanced knob maker, shareware
Vertically concoct PNGs with Moody's pngStitch (Win, OSX, Linux)
Knobman - Most likely the best knob creation app around (AND Free)

Number systems conversion: Binary, Octal, Decimal, Hexadecimal
Math & sound Java applets to play in real time!
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.

Math Forum Library
dmoz
GNU Plot

Dave's short course in trig
Wikipedia: Trigonometry home
Johan Claeys's introduction to TRIGONOMETRY
NASA's Math Trax
SOSmath.com

Art of Assembly Language Programming online book for x86 chips with Windows or Linux, leaning towards HLA (High Level Assembly).
http://webster.cs.ucr.edu Webster/Randall Hyde has more great links to learn more and find forums.
Dr P. Carter's Asm tutorial for C++ programmers uses free NASM (Netwide Assembler), good for newbies, but doesn’t teach/use any MMX or SSE commands.
Software optimization resources
Quexal Is a GUI RAD for writing MMX/SSE assembly that can be imported into C++, Pascal…

Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures
Software Developer's Manuals,
AMD CPU technical documentation,
SSE instructions
article by Thakkar & Huff in Intel Technology Journal, 1999, introducing the SSE concept

WIKIpedia
hayestechnologies
CPUID's SSE2 listing
shufps guide
AthlonXP Optimization
AMD64Athlon/Optron Optimization
Intel Guides
Note: check if you have SSE2 capability by using CPU-Z

Numerical recipes in C
Klangformer
C Programming
Open directory
Twisted lemon

Gersic's DSP WIKI
http://crca.ucsd.edu/~msp/techniques/latest/ other files and versions
DSP Dimension
MusicDSP
The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to DSP free e-book
DSP Design performance
DSP Related
Numerix
DSP Guru
SKnote
James A. Moorer won an AES Silver award, Emmy, Oscar... he knows DSP
http://www.bores.com check the online class section. Easy entry level lecture
Stanford University Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics hard stuff, but worth wading through.
BIG index
Publications at CCRMA
Jon Dattorro's papers
Julius Orion Smith III DSP publications are well worth the read.
Theory and Techniques of Electronic Music by Miller Puckette, author of pure data (PD). Should be titled “Digital Audio Theory”, since there is little about music.
Connexions is a place to view and share educational material made of small knowledge chunks called modules that can be organized as courses, books, reports, etc. Anyone may view or contribute.
YouTube video lecture series on Digital Signal Processing by Prof.S. C Dutta Roy, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Delhi
YouTube video lecture series on Digital Signal Processing by Prof E. Ambikairajah at The University Of New South Wales
Introduction to Signal Processing a textbook on DSP by S.J. Orfanidis, originally published by Prentice Hall. The author got the copyright back and is now offering it for free download as pdf file

Interactive digital filter design
DSP For The Braindead
The RBJ Cookbook translated into SM modules by Shif.

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jgglatt/tech/midispec.htm
MIDI Drum Map

MicroSoft-Mark Russinovich's Process Explorer like Task Manager on steroids!
cheap computer-builder advice
TweakGuides Tweaking Companion is more like a power-user book than a terse tweak-howto

DPC Latency CheckerAnalyses a computer system to find the causes for interruptions in real-time audio and video streams/drop-outs

Blackviper's XP tweaks The Services Configuration master is back! For the hardcore tweakers
Oak Road's XP Tips & Tweaks
Ars Technica hardcore tweaks

Jake Ludington's MediaBlab simple steps
Bob Hug's links

Blackviper's Vista Super Tweaks well worth a donation solid Vista optimization
thread at Tech Power Up!
Winbuble: Customize & Tweak Vista GUI
Vista SP1 5 Language Standalone

WIKIpedia's listing of audio changes
read the comments at this Create Digital Music posting
AVS Forum posting about Vista’s audio experience

Blackviper now has a WiKi
Oak Road's Win7 Tips & Tweaks
WinCert tips & forum are helpful if you want to tweak your OS

Ultimate Windows Tweaker for Windows 7 & Vista
Tweaks.com tips & tools

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