Some of our favorites, including some sites maintained by and for Pro Tools users
Acoustics & Studio Design
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Another excellent sub-section of the Studio Covers archived website. This one featuring links to articles and tutorials on studio design and acoustics for recording and listening rooms. The John Sayers Productions site has more links, articles and the Recording Studio Design Forums. Ethan Winer also hosts the Acoustics Forum on the EQ Magazine Forums. |
| Apple Music & Audio |
Apple showcase |
| Avid Tips — Alan's Tech Page |
Alan Stewart's website featuring useful tips for Avid editors. |
| Berklee Press Links |
From Berklee College of Music |
| CD-Recordable FAQ |
General information on CDR, CDRW questions. Excellent "everything you want to know" resource, provided by Andy McFadden. |
| Classical Archives |
Classical music files. |
Control|24 Patchbay Examples
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Acrobat PDFs. Control|24 patchbay setup examples, created by and courtesy of Control|24 DUC user "Vibrato". (provided as is, setup not tested by Digi) |
| Dancing Dots |
Dancing Dots serves blind musicians and their educators through technology and training. Related Links Page |
| Digital Domain |
Articles on Audio and CD Mastering from Bob Katz, Glenn Meadows and others. |
| DigiZine Tech Talk — Mixing in the Box (167k PDF) |
A detailed look at some of the myths and legends surrounding Pro Tools' mix bus. A Digidesign white paper by Stan Cotey. |
| DrumDojo |
Includes the Drum Tuning Guide and other educational resources for percussionists. Another tuning resource is Prof. Sound's Drum Tuning Bible on Drumweb.com |
| DVD FAQ |
Extenisve list of Frequently Asked Questions and answers on Jim Taylor's DVD Demystified website. |
| ePanorama.net |
Big electronics site, with audio, midi, circuits, thousands of links, like how to build your own theremin. |
| MusicPlayer Forums |
Music & Audio bulletin board with forums by Craig Anderton, David Frangioni, Roger Nichols, and others. Same familiar UBB format as our own Digidesign User Conference |
| FXpansion Users Forum |
Hosted by KVR-VST.com, this is a forum for FXpansion users, including the FXpansion VST to RTAS Adapter which enables VST effects plug-ins and VST Instruments to be used as RTAS plug-ins with Pro Tools 6.0 and higher for Mac OS X and Windows XP. |
Goofy:
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Strange album covers, stupid human tricks, dearly departed, useless information of various kinds. |
Harmony Central Links Page |
Lots of online resources from one of the best known music sites |
History:
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See also the section below: Synthesizers & Keyboards. General computer history:
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Internet hoaxes, fake virus warnings, urban legends:
Real anti-virus information:
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HoaxBusters is provided by the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Center. Thinking of spamming everyone in your address book with a warning or chain letter? Think again, and check the lists of internet hoaxes first.
Links to other related sites include information on real and fake viruses, internet myths, and urban legends. |
Mac General Help Sites:
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General Tips & Troubleshooting websites & user forums for Apple computer users.
Here's another website where you can find almost all Apple Error Codes, but you're probably better off searching the Apple Support Section articles for the specific error and suggestions to solve the problem.
Purchase Older Mac OS Versions:
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| Mac OS X music and audio resources |
MIDI guru Doug Wyatt's personal website, Sonusphere, with information on MIDI in OS X. |
MIDI Manufacturers Association |
Specifications and general information about MIDI, resources, basics, from the MIDI Manufacturers Association site at www.midi.org. Another good primer is Roland's Basics of MIDI (Acrobat PDF). |
| MIDI Quest MIDI Patch Librarian and Editor |
Midi Quest, by Sound Quest Inc is a MIDI patch librarian and editor for Mac OS X and Windows XP. Among other features, Midi Quest can export XML patch name files that are "ready for use" with Pro Tools 6.0 and higher on Mac OS X and Pro Tools 6.7 and higher on Windows XP. |
| Moulton Labs |
Audio education & publications, digital media services, consulting & design |
| Music Yellow Pages Online |
Industry search site. |
| Musician's Tech Central |
Some good information and how-to articles on audio and midi, if you can ignore all the annoying pop-up windows. |
OMS Names Libraries |
Independent user sharing library for upload and download of OMS Names patch list documents. (thanks to Dave Nye for maintaining this site!) Hints & Help section with information on using OMS Names and using Pro Tools as a dedicated phrase sampler. |
| Running Pro Tools Free 3.4 on Older Macs |
Independent site maintained by Adam Rosen and Oakbog Studios with information on the free version of Pro Tools 3.4 released in 1997. Note: This site has a lot of excellent independent information and research, but is in no way affiliated with or supported by Digidesign. (and you can't call Adam either ;-) |
Pro Tools Plug-In Preset Co-op |
Independent user sharing library for upload and download of presets for Pro Tools plug-ins at www.digitalaudiorock.com (thanks to user Tom for maintaining this site!) |
| Schematics |
Application schematics for various studio applications, from Jenson Transformers. |
Search for:
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Allmusic.com lets you search for information on bands, albums, songs, and the artists and engineers involved. Pollstar's concert search looks for upcoming performances. The Google search engine finds everything everywhere on the net. |
Sound Blaster & SoundFonts as Sampler:
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User tutorial on how to use a Sound Blaster card and SoundFonts as a sampler with Pro Tools LE for Windows systems. Additional SoundFonts resource: www.hammersound.net |
Synthesizers & Keyboards:
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If you are into synthesizers, Synthmuseum is a great vintage synth resource, with things like where to get repairs, pictures, history, and the musicians that played them. Synth Zone has both vintage and modern synth information and lots of links, like their Anologue Zone links page. Some of these sites also have both hardware and software synths. |
UBB Code Editors for the DUC (Digidesign User Conference) and other online forums:
Spell Checker for Internet Explorer for Windows
Spell Checker for Mac OS 8 & 9
Mac OS X has built-in spell check capability for Safari, Internet Explorer, and other applications. For Mac OS X applications that do not have built-in spell check capability:
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For Mac OS X:
- UBBComposer is an application that conveniently inserts the modified HTML markup tags that are used on many web-based bulletin boards into text. It works well with UBB, vB, phpBB, and most other BBs. UBBComposer makes it easy for people who don't know HTML to create posts/letters that use text styles and formatting.
For Mac OS 9:
- UBB Writer 2.0 (freeware for mac OS 9) is an Ultimate Bulletin Board code editor that allows the user to add function and style to posts at forums like the Digidesign User Conference.
- SpellTools is a Mac OS 8 & 9 spell check application. Allows you to create a plug-in for many applications, including web browsers. Useful for a number of things like cleaning up email, posting to the DUC.
For Windows:
- ieSpell is a free Internet Explorer browser extension that spell checks text input boxes on a webpage, such as the post and reply text boxes on the DUC and other online forums.
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| Women's Audio Mission |
Women's Audio Mission is an all volunteer, women-run organization dedicated to the advancement of women in the recording arts. |
Windows Utilities & Web Resources
Good places to visit for PC hardware information:
Information & Diagnostic Utilities:
Maxtor Drive Utilities:
Some great resources for making your system super-quiet:
Pro Tools LE User Recommendations:
Tuning Windows XP for Audio/Music Applications:
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Find out how much RAM and which processor, chipset, and Windows XP Service Pack you have.
SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. Advanced and free versions.
PC WIZARD 2005 is a powerful free utility designed especially for detection of hardware, but also some more analysis. It's able to identify a large scale of system components and supports the latest technologies and standards.
Maxtor MaxBlast 3 is a one-step, ATA/IDE hard drive installation utility for automatically identifying, partitioning, and formatting IDE hard drives without using FDISK. The Powermax utility is designed to perform diagnostic read/write verifications on Maxtor/Quantum hard drives. These tests will determine hard drive integrity.
The other links are some well-known sites for lots of information about troubleshooting and building your own system.
There are also a couple of excellent user topics in the Digidesign User Conference (the DUC) in the Pro Tools LE for Windows forum:
Thanks to user Allen Hallada for starting and maintaining both of these topics, and thanks to all of the knowledgeable Pro Tools LE for Windows users that generously share their expertise with other users. |
