pledge music

this site is a platform to raise money for musical projects

http://www.pledgemusic.com/

free samples on soundcloud

Here's a link to a blog post on SoundCloud about free samples there

you can use it to find loads of free samples and also to share your own samples

soundcloud is also my preferred way of sharing audio at the moment, two thumbs up from me

free samples ahoy

open source for mac

this page has loads of free open source software for mac (most have linux and pc versions too)

http://www.opensourcemac.org/

there's all sorts of useful stuff like word processing and torrents and whatnot

for music heads there's Audacity which is a simple audio recording and editing tool

pure data which i already raved about here

and some more good things if you dig through the many links :)

Big list of TED talks

clickable list of TED talks

TED talks are about interesting ideas

they are awesome and you will learn heaps

this is a clickable list, there's so many speakers and topics i can't pick one to give an example. each talk is by someone who is a leader in their field

prepare to have your mind expanded in any way you choose

finding free samples tutorial

http://www.dubstepforum.com/tutorial-finding-free-samples-t133155.html

this is an awesome resource put together by Future's Untold over at the DubstepForum

covers what to search and has links to heaps of good sample sites i mean HEAPS

cinematic strings

this is a link to the Cinematic Strings sample bank project that I was fortunate to be the sound engineer for. Massive props to Alex Wallbank for bringing the whole thing together and to all the string players and everyone who worked on this project and made it sound so awesome

cinematic strings

the sky is burning (mix)

The sky is burning (mix) by boomstix