Links

 

Vst-Patches - excellent resource! preset banks for blue, vanguard, albino, reason refills, sample banks, the list goes on!

eMusic Tips and Tricks - great production tutorials, and music resource - centered around Reason

KVR Audio - plugin resources, news and information about open standard audio plugins

Serious Sounds - excellent music production forum

trance addict - forums, tutorials, music

Zenhiser - Exclusive Pro Audio Samples & Instant Audio Download Packs

Audio Mastermind - huge directory of audio links, free vsts, production and sound engineering contacts...

JasAudio - Excellent softsynth, and Ableton Live resource - cool design too

Equinox Sounds - Developers of loop/phrase libraries in ACID and REX2 formats.
 Royalty free loops for Ambient, Chill Out and Trance productions.

Techno-id - Awesome synth resource, mainly hardware focused, stuff for korg karma, electribe, yamaha cs2x, and heaps more. plus free vsti's, midi files, everything!

The Musicrow Group - Free and commercial VST instruments and Reaktor ensembles 

Gersic.com - the giant free audio plugin database

beatstorm - free beats and music production community

partnersinrhyme - Royalty Free Music and Sound Effects

Musicheights.com - Music Production, news, tutorials & more

Samplecraze - SoundFont developers for Emu/Ensoniq. Providers of Akai and Emu cd
roms, drum loops, breaks, multisamples, audio loops, and WAVS. Detailed Hip
Hop and Trance content, newsletter, tutorials etc..

Audiobrutality - Royalty free 24 samples of digital and analog synthesizers