links out of here:

• Current:
• monster cables some info on monster cables
• monster cable products some monster cable information
• monster cable news some news on monster cable

• Musicians, producers, artists:
• sleek month Hollywood's sleekest phreque
• vurt Experimentalist from Manchester - England
• kriminal Amazing Dave! - techno fiend
• bluedad Piano tuner from Birmingham, Alabama
• dan-island Scotland's greatest band
• bonteburg Bits and pieces to listen to
• sepheritoh Songwriter from South Africa
• donkeytugger Yorkshire's finest

• General music production:
• kvr-vst the best VST, AU and DX instruments site
• vstcentral VST and DX plugin synth and fx listings with user ratings
• MIDIplugins MFX, VST and OPT MIDI plugins
• databaseaudio VST plugin listings site including loads of freeware stuff
• sound on sound professional recording advice
• computer music computer hardware and software magazine online
• prorec pro recording site
• prosoundweb another pro recording site
• sounduser sample cd reviews
• harmony central music equipment news site
• music xp tweak your music machine (DAW)
• Music Radar - For music makers & music producers featuring the latest pro audio news

• Music Equipment Retailers:
• Pro Audio DV247.com for Studio Equipment, Guitars, Musical Instruments, Music Computers, Music Software, Apple computers, Microphones and more.

• Samples and sampling: (note giga files can also be opened in kontakt and vsampler3)
• space audio wav files of interstellar phenomena
• hammersound free downloads of sf2 soundfont files
• sonic control user reviews of sample cds and other stuff
• sounduser sample cd reviews
• samplepoolz sample cd reviews in german
• northernsounds sample library user site with developers on site to answer questions about their products
• ns kit freely downloadable multi-format natural studio drum kit samples
• worras place free gig files for giga studio
• gtown free samples recorded with natural reverb
• tjgigs more free gig files for giga studio
• university of iowa musical instrument samples free samples to download
• mean beat more samples
• phatso's place sampled drum loops
• echochamber free exs24 sample site (but you can just use the wav files in any sampler of your choice)
• ontology more free exs24 samples and wav files
• first-wave free exs24 files and wav files
• earthstation1 audio and video archive

• Impulse responses and convolution
• echochamber impulse responses
• noisevault impulse responses
• SIR super impulse response free impulse reverb VST plugin

• VST, AU, DX and OPT development:
• VST source code archive all you need to start programming your own plugins
• steinberg VST plugin development official home of the VST SDK and VSTGUI
• DX and MFX plugin development official home
• Yamaha OPT plugin technology midi type plugins supported by acid 4
• AU plugin development audiounits
• music DSP what you might need to put in your plugins