Audio Links
Industry Index
- Academy of Country Music
- Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
- Accuracy In Media
- American Federation of Musicians
- American Federation of TV and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
- American Music Conference
- American Society of Composers
- Association of Independent Music Publishers
- Association of Professional Recording Services Ltd. (APRS)
- Audio Engineering Society
- Black Rock Coalition
- Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI)
- California Copyright Conference
- Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
- Central Carolina Songwriters Association
- Country Music Association
- Directors Guild of America
- Electronics Representatives Association
- Future of Music
- Gospel Music Association
- H.E.A.R.
- International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA)
- International Communications Industries Association
- IRTS Foundation
- Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Inc.
- Lifebeat The Music Industry Fights AIDS
- Los Angeles Music Network (LAMN)
- MIDI Manufacturers Association
- Music Distributors Association
- Music Educators National Conference
- Music Teachers National Association
- Musicians Contact Service
- National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
- National Association of Broadcasters (NAB)
- National Association of Recording Merchandisers
- National Music Council
- National Music Publishers Association
- Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
- Recording Musicians Association
- SESAC Inc.
- Society of Composers and Lyricists
- Society of Composers of Canada
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers
- Songwriters Guild of America
- SPARS (Society of Professional Audio Recording Services)
- Technology Institute for Music Educators
- Women’s audio mission
Free Downloads
- Acid Planet - Free Acid Loops a fully operational version of ACID Xpress (PC)
- Apple iTunes
- David Miles Huber
- Digidesign's Pro Tools First - Compose, record, edit, and mix music using many of the same tools the pros use. And the best part—it's absolutely free!
- Plugin Boutique - Pluginboutique is the place where the best music software companies come to sell their VST Plugins, Instruments and Studio Tools to Producers, Musicians and DJs worldwide. Customers can browse Best Selling and Top Rated products and can download Free VST Plugins, Demos and Trial Versions before purchasing.
- Sample Craze - Primarily dedicated to providing licence free drum loops and audio samples, SampleCraze features a collection of quality licence free audio samples on sample CD-ROMs in a variety of audio formats, with plenty of free drum loops and sound loops to demonstrate their content.
- Sample Swap - Professional quality free loops and audio samples for electronic music
Publications
Resources
- Audio Recording Terms Glossary
- Dead Media Project - The collected posts, research and tomes on dead media like vocoders, synthesizers, recordio, wire recorders, etc.
- Digital Domain - All you want to know about digital technology.
- Fez Guys - Archives of articles about streaming media and the industry.
- Film Sound website - A resource on film sound production.
- Geek Noize - Digital Audio recording software and hardware links.
- Hitquarters - HitQuarters presents the world's top record company A&R's, managers, publishers and producers, including their contact info & track records, free of charge
- Pro Audio Dictionary
- Recording Engineer Database
- Streaming Audio Glossary
- Synth Museum