Here is one:

http://www.recordlabelrecords.org/norcal.html

hh man downloaded the demo of maxmsp. no plan how to use it...is there any tutorial or does anybody know how to get started? Yes, in the MaxMSP documentation folder you have "MaxGettingStarted", "Max tutorials and topics" and "MSP tutorials and topics" pdf's. This is w...

For me Kontakt is the best sampler out there. Fantastic onboard effects, you can do a whole track inside Kontakt if you want. It's semi-modular, this application is super deeep. It even has a scripting language built into it. It really pays off to read the manual of this baby if you want to use it t...

A lot of the times users who start out making tracks post questions and the way they put the question, you can see that they have not performed one search on the forum about the topic they are asking about. I can imagine that can be irritating to some. It can give the impression that those users are...

If I would have to choose between the two, I would defo go with Z3ta+. Lots more oscillators, modulation (the matrix is great!) and routing possibilities, it goes way deeper than Vanguard. And I also prefer the sound of Z3ta+ over Vanguard, but that's personal. Gui wise I slightly prefer knobs over ...

Do a blind test, put some loops in Logic or Cubase, bounce it down to a file. Use the same loops in Ableton, bounce to another file. See if you can hear a difference between the two files. Obviously when timestretching is used in Live, that will alter the sound of the samples. But that has nothing t...

If you want the fast & easy way: "Vengeance Minimal House - SampleCD - over 2400 ultra-evil minimal sounds" If you can make a dope track with that, cool... If you can make a dope track with your own sounds, even cooler. To me minimal is more of an approach to music than a certain sound...

Try Redshift Audio Drumular, samples + synthesis. Small, cheap and easy to use, the "minimal" layout is also nice...