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  • *Reason* a full recording studio for PC or Mac
  • MIDI primer
  • MCM - parts like rubber belts for disk drives and tape recorders
  • DD disks and why not to use HD disks with the whole taped over
  • dt100_man_scans.zip - dt100 manual
  • You can use a PS2-mouse to make a MSX-mouse using this circuit - in portugese
  • DIY - PS/2 mouse to MSX mouse converter - in Japanese - may work for roland mouse
  • SGroup - Mice
  • MIDI File Format
  • pointlessaudio.com
  • S50 schematics
  • info on AVI file format
  • Roland's old website can still be accessed!
  • 2DD floppies in bulk ($90/500)
  • SMFW30.zip - smfw30 is a program create Roland W30 disks from .wav files on a PeeCee
  • Star Trek Voyager WAV Catalog
  • online samples in native Ensoniq EPS and wav. file format
  • a program will read and convert sample library CDs in different formats, including Roland and Akai, to wav or aiff files. It costs about $80 and will probably do more than that (although it doesn't seem to support the S-50/550/330)
  • Ken's Corner at Dolby has info onDolby B, C, and S noise reduction for cassette tape
  • Wizardess Joanne Dow - pioneer with MIDI show control - or here (Amiga)
  • AtSpec Spectrum Analyzer free
  • PC version of SuperJAM
  • CDxtract PeeCee s/w to extract and convert sample data from CDs
  • Stuff about Miracle Piano discontinued in 1994 replaced with Discovery Piano System (rip-off of SuperJAM) - Mindscape ( Software Toolworks new name)
  • Quest Studios - The Roland MT-32 Sound Module Resource Center
  • Roland D50 information
  • Roland L/A Synth Page
  • Ginosoft Software - PC MT32 editor - free
  • SYNTH ZONE - MIDI, Synthesizer & Electronic Music Production Resource
  • SoundLib Home Page - free Casio CZ librarian and more
  • Karl Schmidt's MIDI Software Page - Pee Cee of course
  • auralvision, home of press. hear them (him) at mp3.com
  • Music from the Hearts of Space

    • Electronic Instruments - Hardware and Software

  • free composing s/w recomended by Stephan Kost
  • free composing s/w recomended by Stephan Kost
  • This program will dump sounds from PC to S550 via midi Works on W95
  • Video pinouts for Roland S-550 and Amiga
  • YoungMonkey amiga music s/w featuring a Studio 16 page
  • M.EX board for Roland D50 - look there for patches using the M.EX
  • Wavebeast is a non-real time virtual synth (Amiga)
  • Software emulation of Roland TB 303 (Amiga)
  • The ABC Homepage has software, collections of music, and links. Here are the rules of ABC notation
    And ere is abc2MIDI converts ABC notation to MIDI (what else?)
  • Garage Sale (tape recorders, etc)
  • Car/Home MP3 CD player (doesn't really belong here)
  • Sampled - An editor that reads Roland samples - shareware (rumor is the roland part doesn't work)
  • D-50 dis-assembly
  • Roland W30 patches
  • Roland W30 patches
  • W95 MIDI to text converter
  • Echo digital audio digital recording hardware - peecee/rackmount
  • Roland Sample Disk Images and software for all platforms - W30, S50, S550
  • Roland S330/S550 docs and in PDF form also pdf links to heaps of Roland gear and software updates
  • SoftSynth.com with HMSL - MIDI compostion in Forth and Forth languages (free)
  • Linux sound and MIDI s/w
  • Free patch editors for some Roland (and other) gear.
  • an S550 info page
  • MIDIOX free MIDI s/w for PeeCee
  • Soundlogic may build a SCSI interface for the S550
  • Electronic Musician Online Archives - searchable
  • Interval Music Systems - Mac software - TransferStation
  • GVox guitar pickup for PeeCee
  • MIDI Manufacturers Association
  • Music Theory Online
  • The Computer Music Journal from MIT press - lots of stuff!
  • Florida electroacoustic music studio has links to electronic music labs all around the world
  • Harmony Central internet music resource
  • MIDI Home Page
  • Electronic Muses, a comprehensive guide to www resources for musicians GOOD!
  • Lentine's Music in Cleveland!
  • S550 at a auction
  • Sampliier
  • Peter Ullrich synth page with a S550 patch editor (which is also on the SGROUP ftp site) - if you look here, you'll find a link to the new temporary (as of6-Oct-99) SGROUP archive - NEW
  • mellotron samples for S-550 and S-10
    an sgroup mirror site
  • Roland USA is supposed to have OS disks for the S550 for FTP here in the PCSAMP and MACSAMP directories.
  • ???
  • convert 1.4 sample conversion utility
  • Harmony Central Mac Midi software and demos
  • The Garage Sale electronics and musical instruments
  • EKJ Electronics manufacture and direct market MIDI electronics
  • Musicians Workshop mail order instruments
  • Philip Rees Technology small MIDI accessories - murgers, etc.
  • The SynthZone has an info page for Roland with s/w and patches
  • the Gallery web site for midi utilities like a demo version of Interpreter.
  • D-SoundPRO Mac S550 sample editing (comming for PeeCee soon(?)
  • The Hardware Web has Midi hardware projects
  • Awave can read virtually any format (AIFF, SND, AU, Ensoniq samples, Kurzweil's and hundreds more) then convert it to .WAV, or send it to your sampler as midi sample dump, cool eh?
  • A RolandW30 page
  • Steinberg North America and Steinberg US (?)
  • Real Music where you'll find all the information, software (for Amiga, PC, Mac and Linux/UNIX) and files for music in formats like SID, MOD, TFMX, S3M and MP3 you'll ever need.
  • Real Music web page with information on formats like SID, MOD, TFMX, S3M and MP3
  • DMZ
  • Music Electronics uArchive - good stuff, good links.
  • Gibralter Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock ?
  • Polophony back issues from PAiA which still makes electronics kits!!!
  • Roland Corporation
  • OctaMED Amiga sequencer software homepage.
  • Gravis Ultrasound sound cards
  • Ensoniq Sound cards
  • Sound Blaster sound cards
  • Steinberg-US
  • Asample-extracter for S550 and other samplers can be found here.
  • BPM Music Express's new web page for great deals on Guitars, Amps, Keyboards, Accessories, Strings.
  • Check the Synth Zone Web site for URLs to...
  • Roland
  • Mark Foster's home page with links to the sgroup archive in there as well as the Roland faq, a list of manufacturer's address, and some other stuff you might like
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    Electronic Instruments - Sample Data

  • S-550 Samples commercially available
  • http://www.rocketparkmusic.com/" target="_top">mellotron samples converted from S-10 to S550(?)
  • The Mellotron web site has samples in mp3 format
  • http://www.waveform.dk
  • http://www.soundsamples.avex.de
  • http://www.cs.ruu.nl/~jules/Akai/
  • http://www.loria.fr/~pagel/TIMIDITY/index.html
  • Roland sound bank disks
  • samples/free.html
  • bigsamples.free.fr/
  • new sample data site
  • SoundPros - lots of sample data - wav files
  • Roland Sample Disk Images and software for all platforms
  • There is an (new) FTP site for audio samples and utilities for Roland Samplers at the SGROUP site - used to be at the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.
    This site will dissapear soon also. for current information, please check HERE!
    Or an old (not updated) mirror site
    amoung other things, theres a PeeCee utility called WAV2S550 to convert .wav files to S-550 diskettes. Some users have had problems with it.
    There is also source for Unix Roland disk utility
    and info on mice
  • 16-bit wav samples
  • The TX16W Site
  • gritty hammond sample (#13) - free sample of EMU SoundFont - rename them to '.sf2' to use with Awave
  • ? Roland something?
  • Sound Central may end up with the Roland sample library.
  • Paul Gingerich (sgroup) has a site with Midi Studio Downloads Page with S550 stuff - plus lots of great links to a variety of stuff including robots, and programming
  • http://www.eastwestsounds.com comercial samples(?)
  • 'home-brewed' samples sample exchange
  • Paul, an S-group member has a page of S550 samples upload and download
  • WAV samples
  • SampleNet the world's biggest free database of CD-quality samples and more.
  • here (on the invisable link) is a list of synth and software manufacturers pages.
  • lots of samples
  • MACOS (Musicians Against Copyright of Samples)
  • Patchman Music sample disks
  • SAMPLEHEADS, INC comercial samples for Roland (and other?) samplers.
  • A private Sample Site with about 140meg of samples in various formats, and support software for transfering samples to your sampler.
  • FTP SunSite Sun Sounds (.au)
  • FTP SunSite PC Sounds (.wav)
  • FTP cs.ruu.nl has some synth patches and librarians (and lots of other stuff).
  • FTP nic.funet.fi has tons of sounds (.au).
  • FTP oak.oakland.edu for soundfile utilities and players
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    MIDI files

  • Classical MIDI Archives including the works of J. S. Bach and Beethovn
  • Yahoo page of MIDI files
  • The Midi City midi sites
  • top 20 midi sites
  • Vikram's MIDI-Fest
  • Top 20 Midi Sites
  • Midi All the best
  • New MIDI Site! Quality MIDI files!
  • classical midi files
  • webpage with loads of Midi-songs
  • huge midi page
  • Wishbone's favorite (MIDI) tunes of the month (Old time content)

    • Electronic Music People

  • a Mike Oldfield page
  • Amiga Exotic music site in many formats - and software
  • SYNERGY electronic music Larry Fast
  • earwaves links to music artists
  • Wendy Carlos
  • Aubrey Kloppers, a member of the Roland S-Group has a MIDI Homepage that includes PC utilities and some Roland sampler stuff on it.
  • Other S-Group pages are at Singapore - NUS Electronic Music Lab and the home page of Benjamin Ang - Electronic Music Lab <==new address
  • Paul Gingerich (sgroup) has a site with Midi Studio Downloads Page with S550 stuff
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    Computed & Computer Music

  • Dave Phillips' Linux Audio & MIDI software - GREAT!
  • MixViews a Unix/X sound editor
  • The Fractal Music Project with links to software.
  • VARIATIONS Algorithmic Composition
  • Pinrceton electronic composer Paul Lansky's containing discography, liner notes, and a link to the home pagePrinceton Sound Kitchen.
  • CMix for Linux

    Csound

    The Csound front Page at Leeds University Department of Music
    The Csound docs
    The Csound source
  • cSounds.com - the ultimate sound innovator
  • The Csound Front Page
  • Csound magazine
  • Csound Instruments
  • Dave Phillips' Csound page (windows) (and a Linux page)
  • SongLab Homepage and MIDI2CS
  • Hedgehog Computer Music with an emphesis on Csound.
  • Csound on Amiga or Cstar?

    • General Music Information

  • musical scale page

    • E-Zines

  • Shareware Music Machine Newsletter
  • the weekly newsletters Pulse! and Classical Pulse! magazines back issues via the World Wide Web

    • Internet CD shopping

    Most of the on-line CD shopping services just maintain a database of what is available at various CD warehouses. They do not inventory anything. When you order something, they get it from the warehouse and ship it to you. Prices are good, but delivery is a little slow.
  • CDJunkie.com - search all online cd dealers
  • NewWorldCDs Canadian cutouts
  • MusicWeb cutout CDs
  • Classical Choice new and used classical and jazz
  • Cheap-CDs GOOD!
  • The Artist Shop featuring art and recordings of many artists like Larry Fast and Adrian Belew.
  • RecRec//, the biggest swiss independent music distributor, and home of Fred Frith and other artists
  • Aeon Music
  • Tunes - listen to everything!
  • CamsCo Music is a mail-order CD and tape dealer that specailzes in folk/OT music
  • Telnet to The CD Connection for the largest CD database in the United States.
  • CD Now also has On-line CD sales with WWW access, but not everything on their hypertext works so you may want to contact them via Telnet.
  • CD Europe provides telnet access to a database that is twice as large as CD Connection's.
  • New Market has WWW access and is supposed to have CDs, but I havn't found them yet. They also have a Telnet interface.
  • To Register to hear 30 sec, sound clips of current recordings from World Wide Music.
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    Pop Artist Home Pages

  • Rhino records
  • jaye foucher - fusion guitar
  • Discipline - King Crimson Family and Friends
  • Kit Watkins
  • The Artist Shop
  • Djam Karat
  • Bruce Cockburn page with TAB, CD sources and other stuff; and another site with more Bruce and a video too!
  • GaffaWeb and The Muse and Capitol/Sony Records (Oh, In case you didn't know, that's Kate Bush)
  • Holly Cole