Heres an interesting one Orange_Brat;

web page

That's a good page. Here's bupaje's findings: http://www.conitecserver.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=493782 I'll be contacting a moderator about updating the initial post one of these days. No time or desire at the moment.

A recent thread at Moho forums by someone looking for programs to produce music produced a few good links.

http://myriad-online.com/en/index.htm
http://www.synthzone.com/softsyn.htm
http://www.freebyte.com/music/
http://www.seeingwithsound.com/javoice.htm
http://www.finalemusic.com/notepad/index.asp
http://myriad-online.com/en/index.htm

EDIT: Couple more sound/music related from Moho forum thread



VstSeq - Windows
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1021.html

Krystal Audio engine - Windows
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/866.html

Synthfont - Windows
http://www.kvraudio.com/get/1030.html

Go here for shareware and freeware host and plug-ins.
http://www.kvraudio.com/

http://www.coreftp.com/

Core FTP LE

There are several magazine that deserve to be here. One is

http://www.digitmag.co.uk/

another is

http://www.computerarts.co.uk

I check them out at the magazine store from time to time to see what free software they have (usually previous version stuff) -probably should subscribe. To give you an idea the magazine is about $12-$14 by me and I got Carrara Studio free and at the time was able to get the full version for about $79 instead of $450+. I also got a copy of Credo's LifeForms 3.5 for free and I can now get an upgrade for $89 instead of $400 for full product. I have also gotten older version of Poser, Vue and free textures, models and sound files from several of these mags.

Forget the name of the others but think they may have been http://www.futurenet.co.uk publications.

Microsoft Expression 3 should be on the list. This is a really good and free vector program.

Microsoft Expression

why not add these tools to the list ....

now3d and ppmodeller as well as lightray3d

if you need the links search for them 2 are free the other is inside the 150 us dollar.

Groper in the sand

TMPGENC Free video encoder. will take wmv files and turn them into avi. Plus alot more. Hope someone finds it usefull.

cool text: Logo Generator a website that will generate buttons and logos. Not great but could be useful. Not sure on liscence.

Height map editor A terrain editing program. Not too bad i beleive its free for any use but check the site to be sure.

Xara 3d A logo and button generator. around 50 dollars but does a pretty nice job.

Hope some of these are usefull.

I could not find ZBrush in these posts. That is a 3d software to add details to a model just as simple as painting on it. You get some displacement map. That could be handy for normal mapping in games:

http://pixologic.com/home/home.shtml

It's a nifty program, but too expensive for the scope of this thread. Try to keep them under $150.