MAZ Sound Tools - VSampler, Sounds, MindCandy, Demos for PC, Amiga, C64, Freax

<h1>Classic MAZ Site</h1> <h2>Audio Shareware, Freeware, Sceneware</h2>  <p>Due to lack of time the classic MAZ website will not be updated anymore. But it will stay online incl. all the great freeware and shareware downloads at</p> <p align="center"><a target="_top" href="http://www.soundtrackers.de"> www.soundtrackers.de</a></p> <p>The website startet in 1995 as host of interesting non-mainstream audio software, like special tools for demo scene musicians (trackers), audio-CD-rippers, mpeg encoders, special soundcard info, tools and more. Thanks to <a target="_blank" href="http://www.fh-zwickau.de/">FH Zwickau</a> for hosting the website in the early years! Everything was new and exciting, the internet as well as the PC being a sequencer and playing any recorded noise as musical instrument. The situation today changed. If not for the oldschool compos, demoscene musicians don't use special tools anymore. Except <a target="_blank" href="http://www.renoise.com">Renoise</a> and updated <a target="_blank" href="http://www.madtracker.org">Madtracker</a> versions there wasn't any new software in the past years which could be called "demoscene related", or which would be "underground". The classic MAZ website transfered to today would be something like <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kvr-vst.com">K-v-R</a> in best case. But there's one major problem: I never wanted to have a website which lists as *many* programs as possible and publishes (more or less modified) press releases. My focus has always been to offer my personal pre-selection of hot picks per category, after testing them in depth, and with my own subjective comments. But that's very time consuming, because for every program I published at my website I tested e.g. 5 others which didn't make it. No chance to do the same for VST plugins, where a new one pops up every hour - you can only put them online 1:1 as they come in, without testing or reviewing them. That's why I never had a "VST plugins" section at my site. </p> <p>Anyway, I didn't plan to spend the rest of my life judging other peoples work, just criticizing this and that instead of doing it better :) Since 1999 the support and development of <a target="main" href="main.php?show=product&id=2&PHPSESSID=f9ddd63a833bf43ccb3b1ef7d433c3e2"> VSampler</a> occupied my interest more and more, and since 2001 I'm spending all of my time to VSampler in co-op with the developers at Speedsoft. It's just the next logical step after being excited about all those great tracking software of the early years :)</p> <p>See you at <a target="_top" href="http://www.maz-sound.com">www.maz-sound.com</a>,<br> Matthias "maz" Ziegs</p>