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Industry Groups & Resources | Hardware, Software & Tools | Music Education | Composers & Designers

Industry Groups & Resources

IGDA www.igda.org
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is the largest non-profit membership organization serving individuals that create video games. The IGDA advances the careers and enhance the lives of game developers by connecting members with their peers, promoting professional development, and advocating on issues that affect the developer community.
GANG www.audiogang.org
The Game Audio Network Guild (G.A.N.G.) is a non-profit organization established to educate the masses about interactive audio by providing information, instruction, resources, guidance, and enlightenment not only to its members, but to content providers and listeners.
Project Bar-B-Q www.projectbarbq.com
Project Bar-B-Q is an annual conference designed to influence music hardware and software over the next five years. Three to five groups—each consisting of hardware developers, software developers, audio engineers, composers, and technology executives—spend two days of facilitated brainstorming to formulate solutions to the industry's most important problems. The result is the annual BBQ Report.
Sonify.org www.sonify.org
Sonify.org provided news and information on web, portable, and wireless audio until abut May 2007. The site is no longer updated, but still contains releveant and historical information.

Software, Hardware & Tools

http://midishare.sourceforge.net/
I just wish to draw your attention to the fact the MidiShare (a wonderful realtime cross-platform multitasking midi OS) is now open-source. MidiShare (and the source) is available from http://midishare.sourceforge.net/ . Or send mail to: lorien@primus.com.au

www.dw.com
DiamondWare, Ltd. develops high-performance software for interactive audio applications, device drivers, simulations, and games. Its Sound ToolKit product, which incorporates its proprietary audio technology, has been used by many leading game developers, and will soon debut in several non-game applications including realtime internet voice chat.

www.yamaha.co.uk
Yamaha's premier European homepage covering all aspects of XG, and thousands of downloads,faq sheets and technical data relating to Yamaha's hi-tech products. Also provides specialist areas for pro audio, synthesizers, online shopping and home keyboards.

www.harmonixmusic.com
Harmonix Music Systems is an industry leading creator of interactive audio experiences for museums, theme parks, video games and all forms of interactive entertainment.

www.beatnik.com
 Beatnik is a leading provider of structured audio software solutions for mobile devices that enable rich multimedia content delivery and an enhanced user experience for games and device interaction. Beatnik provides the core audio engine technology, application programming interfaces (APIs) and tools that allow the development of audio-enabled applications, services and content delivery for the mobile world.

www.dream.fr
"DREAM S. A., based in Semur, France, a subsidiary of Atmel Corp. (www.atmel.com) is a leading supplier of Sound Synthesis and Sound Processing IC's and related software.DREAM products are used by manufacturers of high end soundcards, Karaoke equipment and electronic musical instruments worldwide"

Music Education

www.musicked.com
A valuable tool for music teachers, students and enthusiasts world-wide.  The site is a subsidiary of The Dallas School of Music, Inc. which has been providing world-class music education services for over a decade.

www.audioinstitute.com
The Audio Institute of America offers a world-wide distance-learning course for recording engineers and music producers.

Composers and Designers

www.helmproductions.com
AT THE HELM. Mission: to become the leading music provider of custom interactive music and SFX by aiding your development team's efforts of placing the real world inside the PC or game console. Our web site offers music demos of action, sports, adventure, and film-quality SFX and ambient music/FX tracks, which provided value to published interactive projects. Our credits include titles published by Sierra, Accolade, Utopia, DreamWorks SKG, and others.

www.computer-music.com/reviews/reviews_home.htm
Donald S. Griffin's Spot Reviews. Computer music product reviews that cut to the chase. Focusing on aspects of a product that are unique or uniquely well done, these reviews rely on the ability to link to a manufacturer's web site to provide the dry facts, features, and statistics.

www.totalaudio.com
Marty O'Donnel's Page. O'Donnell/Salvatori Total Audio. Award winning creators of original music and sound design for all interactive media.

www.garrigus.com
Scott R. Garrigus - Multimedia Maestro. Author, musician, and multimedia expert. Related info. and article links

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