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🔗 Recommended Links & Communities
A hand-picked collection of places connected to music, trackers, sound design, the Demoscene, and creative technology. Links marked with 💙 Pick are personal favorites, but every entry is here for a reason.
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Find melcom elsewhere
Music, releases, profiles, archives, and open-source projects.
- melcom @ bandcamp.com (melcom's music albums)
- melcom @ demozoo.org
- melcom @ Dropbox (All material ever published in one place) NEW
- melcom @ GitHub My GitHub Creations NEW
- melcom @ ModArchive.org (Modules)
- melcom @ pouët.net NEW
- melcom @ scene.org (Modules)
- melcom @ scene.org (Published MP3s after 2020)
- melcom @ scene.org (Published MP3s before 2020)
- melcom @ SoundCloud.com
Friends and cool people
Musicians and friends whose work is well worth discovering.
- h0ffman (Great demo scene musician and DJ from the UK)
- netpoet (Terrific German demo scene musician with really great and unusual tracks)
- SagaMusix.de 💙 Pick (A loyal friend for years and probably the best musician I know)
- Stailer (Very talented electronic music maker from France)
- Virgill (One of the best German demo scene musician and a good friend)
Music trackers
Classic, modern, chip-based, and platform-specific ways to make tracked music.
- Adlib Tracker II - FM tracker for OPL3 chips (AdLib/SB)
- AmigaKlang - Tool for generating Amiga-style synth sounds
- BeRoTracker - Modular Windows tracker with VST support
- ChibiTracker - Cross-platform Impulse Tracker clone
- DefleMask - Chiptune Tracker - Multi-system tracker for classic sound chips
- enotracker - Tracker for Atari POKEY sound
- FamiTracker - NES/Famicom music tracker with expansion chip support
- Fasttracker II clone - Modern clone of the DOS classic FastTracker II
- Game Boy Tracker - Tracker for creating music on Game Boy/Color
- GoatTracker 2 - C64 SID music tracker for Windows/Linux
- Hivelytracker - AHX/HVL tracker with up to 16 channels
- MadTracker - Windows tracker with VST and ReWire support
- MilkyTracker - Open-source FastTracker II-style tracker
- OpenMPT 💙 Pick - Advanced Windows tracker with many module formats
- PreTracker - This is a crossdev 'chipmusic' tracker (running on Windows) NEW
- ProTracker 2 clone - Portable clone of Amiga ProTracker 2.3D
- Schism Tracker 💙 Pick - Open-source Impulse Tracker reimplementation
- SID Factory II - Cross-platform editor for C64 SID music
- SID-Wizard - Feature-rich C64 SID tracker with MIDI support
- Skale Tracker - FT2-style tracker with VST and SoundFont support
- TIATracker - Tracker for Atari 2600 (VCS) music
- Trackerboy - Game Boy music tracker with custom engine
- TrackMeister 💙 Pick - Fullscreen MOD/XM/IT player for compos
- VGM Music Maker - Tracker for Sega Genesis/Master System/Game Gear
Samples and instruments
Free sounds, instrument collections, loops, and historic sample archives.
- Amiga Soundtracker Sample Packs (ST-XX)
- BBC Philharmonia (free orchestral samples)
- Free Wave Samples (High quality wav samples for free)
- FREE Full Sample Pack (About 1.4 GB of freely usable, royalty-free samples)
- Freesound (Audio snippets, samples, recordings etc.)
- KB6.de 💙 Pick (Samples, Drum Samples for free download ...)
- LucidSamples.com (Free Wav Sounds / Samples)
- melcom's Samples (My own creations of samples / instruments)
- MusicRadar (Free music samples from SampleRadar)
- Philharmonia Sound samples (free sound samples by Philharmonia musicians)
- Rhythm Lab (Free Wav Samples, Loops, Breaks, VST Plugins)
- Sample Packs - Community Collection (Around 2 GB of mixed samples)
- Samplephonics.com (Free Sample Pack & Instruments)
- SAMPLE PACK by niv0 (Nearly 700 MB of synth sounds)
- The Mod Archive Samples 💙 Pick (Fantastic Samples (Waveworld & Kiarchive))
- Woolyss (Chipmusic > 8-bit loops and samples)
VST plugins
Effects, instruments, analyzers, and useful plugin collections.
- Ask.audio (52 FREE Audio FX Plug-Ins)
- blog.landr.com (8 free VST Plugins that add warmth)
- blog.landr.com (60 free VST Plugins)
- KVR Audio Software 💙 Pick (VST Plugins, Audio Units, AAX, Instruments and Effects)
- TAL Software (Lots of great Plugins)
- Tokyo Dawn Labs 💙 Pick (High-quality audio plugins)
- Zynewave (Freeware Plugins)
Audio tools and emulation
Encoders, front-ends, playback tools, and sound hardware emulation.
- Abandon Loader (Front-end interface)
- AdPlug (A free AdLib sound player library)
- D-Fend Reloaded 💙 Pick (A graphical environment for DOSBox)
- DOSBox (An x86 emulator with DOS)
- GUSemu official homepage (Gravis Ultrasound Emulator)
- melcom's FFmpeg Audio Normalizer 💙 Pick (GUI tool to normalize audio volume)
- Lame Front-End 💙 Pick (A frontend for the LAME MP3 Encoder)
- LAME MP3 Encoder 💙 Pick (A high quality MP3 encoder)
- RareWares - LAME Libraries 💙 Pick NEW
- RazorLame 💙 Pick (A frontend for the LAME MP3 Encoder)
- The VDMSound Project (A modular, extendable soundcard emulator)
Demoscene resources
Scene archives, music collections, fantasy computers, and oldskool history.
- :: modules.pl 💙 Pick (Very cool site with tons of mod files) NEW
- .mod Sample Master 💙 Pick (An page indexing Music Tracker Modules) NEW
- AmigaRemix (Amiga Game- and Demo-music Remixes)
- ChipTune.com (Tons of chiptunes and much more)
- melcom's ChipTune Archive 2005-02-05 (Archive.org)
- melcom's ChipTune Archive 2005-05-05 💙 Pick (Scene.org)
- OLDSKOOL Demomaker (Demo & Intromaker)
- scene.org (World's largest demoscene-related file server)
- scenes.at (Focuses on the modern side of the demo scene)
- TIC-80 - A free and open source fantasy computer NEW
- The Oldskool PC (1980's PC Gaming-related Nostalgia)
- The Thalion Source (A fan page about Thalion Software GmbH)
- Warlock's ADF Archive
Game development and programming
Useful starting points for developers and creative collaborations.
- GameDev.net (A resource for game developers)
- Games-Career.com (The job portal of the games industry)
- Wanted! (The demoscene's most wanted!)
