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[Chronic]

Please note that not all of these are freeware. Also note that most are not royalty-free, so you'll most likely have to give credit if you use the sounds. Check the site for more legal information.

Add to this if you wish, but please don't post doubles. And please only post your own site if it has significant resources.

MUSIC
OverClocked ReMix
Ifni MIDI
Sunncity - free Midis
Bill Brown
Freeplay Music
World of Game MIDs
Videogame Music Archive
Techno Midi
Bjorn Lynne's Original MIDIs
Royalty Free Music

SOUND EFFECTS
Flashkit: loops
Absolute Sound Effects Archive

8Bits Sound Effect Generator

MOD
The Mod Archive

GAME MUSIC
The Almighty Guru - Games Music
Doomworld - Music
Mega Man MIDI's

COMPOSITION SOFTWARE
FL Studio (paid)
Anvil Studio (free)
Noteworthy Composer (paid)
Reason (paid)
Finale Composition Software (paid)
Sound Club - Windows Version (free)
Orangator (free)

AUDIO EDITORS
GoldWave (paid)
Audacity (free)
Wave Creator (paid)

TRACKERS
Nerd Tracker II (free)
FamiTracker (free)
MadTracker (free)
Modplug (free)

TUTORIALS
Chord Progressions Guide
How to Make a Circular Climax
How to Look at a Blank Music Sheet and Start Composing
Using Key Changes to Extend the Length of a Song
Top 5 Things NOT to do When Composing

SOUND EFFECT CREATION PROGRAMS
FlexiMusic Generator (paid)
SFXr (free)
BFXr (free)

AUDIO CONVERTERS
MP3 & WAV Convertor (free)
Blaze Media Pro (paid)
L.A.M.E. Encoder (free)
RazorLame (free)
Zophar's Domain: Sound File Convertors (free)

SEARCH ENGINES
Find Sounds
Find MIDIs
MIDIsite
Music Robot
vanBrasco's MIDI Search

FORUMS
Voice Acting Alliance
Game Maker Music Forum

INSTRUMENTS
Fast Tracker 2 instruments archive

OTHER RESOURCES
The Sonic Spot
Analogx - DirectX Audio Plugins
Zophars Domain: Game Music Utilities
K-v-R
HammerSound
Newgrounds - Audio

EDIT: 13 / 7 /2012 - the user Icymx, has kindly tidied and updated this list. THANK YOU!!!!.

Edited by icuurd12b42, 25 April 2013 - 03:16 AM.

[BorisE]

Found this collection of midis

http://www.novagoric.../m4dj/midi.html

[chay]

Please add these two items to this resource list.

An unique sound generating software FlexiMusic Generator that can generate special sound effects for the using in games.

There is an audio editor FlexiMusic Wave Editor that is easy to use and most economic.

[linkmandx]

Zelda Music
Go to the Hyrule music section, then Midis.

[Chronic]

http://www.bluemoon.ee/history/scwin/

[Richardsoft]

Buzz - look no further for a free mp3 making tool
EDIT: Watch though, it appears that the massive pack may have viruses, not sure about the other packs.
Buzz Machines

Edited by Richardsoft, 26 February 2005 - 04:10 PM.

[mix man dan]

--> Click Here <-- i was making some sets of sound effects. they are alot better then most of the obes you will find out there because they dont have static in the back ground and are not wav. they are 128kbps mp3 i think.... anyways they are quite small and free for commercial use so grab them today

there will be more later but we only have one pack up right now (9/14/2004)

[koolkirby]

The Ultimate Site for Sonic MP3's

Stardust Speedway

[Kyoujin]

MIDI
HamieNet
FindMidis

[SilverenX]

http://midishrine.com/

[anothersomething]

http://remix.kwed.org/ <-- Ub3r 1337 /\/\0haxx10 site. Tons of remixes of classic c64 songs. If you download anything, download the remix of Comic Bakery by Instant Remedy. I've been listening to it non-stop for the past 2 hours (No I am not insane, retro c64 music is ownzerificationizer)

[excalibur2]

Go here for Mario sounds.

Mario Fan Games Galaxy

[DoomAtma]

VGMusic
It has some awesome MIDIs.

[Highwaydog]

VGMusic
It has some awesome MIDIs.

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Videogame Music Archive

it's the same

[Schalken]

I found a great game music site: http://www.music4games.net

If you like the music from a game, look it up there and they are bound to have it.

Edited by Schalken, 06 November 2004 - 11:02 AM.

[MMX10]

Final Fantasy MP3's If you like ff mp3's that place has them.

[Highwaydog]

Now I don't know if this was already being mentioned, but for the more experienced music makers, this is a huge list of things relevant to music making (like music theory, scales, modes, harmony, ...)
http://www.rangeraudio.com/music.htm

then, this one is entitled "learn to compose music"
http://www.composerp...n/wiki.cgi?Home

this is an excellent article about writing adventure game music, it's really helpful in my eyes, and also some of the tips can be relevant for other music types:
http://screen7.adven...ingamemusic.htm

The reason I postet this, is, because the "tutorials" section only had one entry, and I think, that knowing how to compose music is more important than knowing what to use to compose the music...

Edited by Highwaydog, 30 October 2004 - 11:02 AM.

[lil]

Check out this site... soon to have over 4200 sounds, background music, and more!

<link dead>

Edited by KC LC, 31 May 2006 - 08:41 PM.

[midlon]

hello every1

I have found a new midi search machine on the web:

midispider.com

Right now there are over 4'200 midis in their database. And it seems that the number grows daily. Hehe, I am curious when they will break the 10 thousands. In few weeks?

- midlon -

[L33TNerd]

Excellent Commercial MP3's from popular artists


Due to a mass of wacky technicalities, in Russia you can gett all of those MP3's for 10 cents. All you do is clcik the preview "speker" button to preview it. Then while it's playing, click "save as" or "save media as" and bam! Your "preview" is not a preview anymore.