Hugo Martinez - electronic violinist: Links

Music Software: DirectX Plugins
AIPL	AIPL (Acoustic Information Processing Lab) has its shareware SpinCycle (a rotary speaker emulator) and WarmTone (tube and tape emulator) at its website. Other products are also featured.
Amulet	"How would you like to be able to run VST plug-ins in ACID, Cakewalk, and Sound Forge? Now you can!"
Arboretum Systems	"Arboretum's speciality is innovative signal processing and sound shaping technologies, emphasizing real-time operation, gestural control and unique interface design."
Clone Ensemble	"Clone Ensemble (shareware) takes a solo vocal line, and makes it sound like a choir (in unison). An MP3 on the site demonstrates a 128-voice choir I constructed by singing 4 vocal parts. The plug-in can do the same trick for solo instruments, and makes a single-oscillator synth sound MASSIVELY fat"
dB audioware	"Here you will find a quality range of free and shareware DirectX and VST audio plugins for use with PC and Macintosh music applications."
Digilogue	"The digilogue Blue-Line Plug-In-Pack contains a number of standard effects that cover the whole range for instruments and vocals. All effects offer the same clear and easy user interface. The effects are optimized to achieve good sounding effects with a relatively low CPU-usage."
DSP-FX	"A combination of efficient algorithm design and proprietary Pentium-based technology results in the DSP·FX plug-ins requiring far less CPU overhead than traditional plug-ins."
RBC Audio	"The RBC Voice Tweaker is a pitch transposer designed for monophonic signals such as voice, spoken or sung, or solo instruments. It can transpose the pitch and harmonic over a range of +/- 2 octaves independently, thus enabling both formant preserving pitch transpose and other more unusual effects. The Voice Tweaker also features a pitch correction function and MIDI control."
Sonic Foundry	Known for its acclaimed Sound Forge editor, Sonic Foundry offers DirectX plugins as part of its broad offerings.
TheDirectXFiles	"...a comprehensive resource for a wide range of DirectX audio plu-ins, with screen shots, contact and purchasing information, industry links, and third-party reviews."
Timeworks L.L.P.	Great sound and fast with a nearly photographic interface. "The 4080L reverb and the 6022 delay are currently available. A Phazer is scheduled to release in early July, 1998."
Ultrafunk	"Ultrafunk is a recently established software and design group based in Oslo, Norway. Our aim is to make tools for computer-based composition, authoring, publishing and design." "The Sonitus:fx line of plug-ins is now available for online purchase at an introductory price of $140. Standalone plug-ins can also be purchased."

Music: Other
ASCAP	The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers "is a performing rights society that represents its members by licensing and distributing royalties for the non-dramatic public performances of their copyrighted works. These royalties are paid to members based on surveys of performances of the works in our repertory that they wrote or published."
BMI	Broadcast Music, Inc is "a music performing rights organization, a company that represents songwriters even if they also happen to be recording artists, a company that collects money from people who use music in the course of their business and then pays that money to the writers and publishers of the songs they use."
T.F. Barrett Co.	Maker of fine electric violins, violas, cellos...
Bowed Electricity	Electric/avant-garde violin players, makers, equipment and resources.
Fantasma Productions	"Fantasma Productions is one of the largest full service production companies in the country. For the past twenty five years, we have been providing quality entertainment and event production for both Local and National events."
Harmony Central	A wealth of music-related links and industry news. "The Internet Resource for Musicians."
National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Inc.	Internationally known for the GRAMMY® Awards, NARAS® (also known as The Recording Academy) is dedicated to improving the quality of life and cultural condition for music and its makers.
Sheet Music Plus	Want to buy sheet music, songbooks or guitar tabs? Try Sheet Music Plus.
South Florida Entertainment Resource	The weekly Renegade Arts and Entertainment Listing; an annual calendar of events; places to go, things to see and people to meet in South Florida. Also, there are some great eclectic music and New Orleans links.
Ticketmaster	"Ticketmaster.com is the online extension of Ticketmaster Corporation, the global leader in live event ticket sales. Ticketmaster provides tickets to more than 350,000 events each year, including professional sports, arts, family events, concerts, comedy and more and you can find them all here at ticketmaster.com."
U.S. Copyright Office	"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" (U.S. Constitution, Article 1 Section 8)
Gadget Labs Wave4 Driver	As Gadget Labs is defunct, I've put the two drivers I have on the web for those who need them. I think this one may be the driver for Windows 98.
Gadget Labs Wave4 NT Driver	It's for Windows NT; I don't know if it will work with 2000 or XP.

Other
Reseller Ratings	Before you buy stuff online, check this site.
Miami Herald	Mainstream newspaper for Miami and its surrounding communities.
Miami New Times	"Like its newsprint cousin -- a metropolitan weekly that has become known as South Florida's most reliable source of information overlooked or ignored by the major media -- miaminewtimes.com is dedicated to tough journalism, smart criticism, and good, old-fashioned muckraking."
United Way of America	"UWA's mission is to respond to, support and serve local United Way member organizations to help increase the organized capacity of people to care for one another."
United Way of Miami-Dade	"Founded in 1939, today’s United Way is the largest non-governmental funder of human services in Miami-Dade County. United Way contributions reach people in need through nearly 250 health and human care programs provided through one of 66 United Way affiliate agencies or community initiatives."
CubaNet	"Founded in 1994, CubaNet is a tax exempt, non partisan and non-profit organization that fosters free press in Cuba, assists its independent sector develop a civil society and informs the world about Cuba's reality. CubaNet receives daily phone calls from ten independent press agencies and several freelancers in Cuba. These journalists write the non governmental version of the events and daily life in Cuba."
Hispanic National Bar Association	"... an incorporated, non-profit, national association representing the interest of over 25,000 Hispanic American attorneys, judges, law professors, and law students in the United States and Puerto Rico."