Julien Bayle can instruct you how to make a monome clones which is good because the monome always have a waiting list.
Music might have stopped me from being a misanthropic criminal so maybe this will change some that are ready are. Jail Guitar Doors is Billy Bragg’s initiative to provide inmates with musical instrument. I believe in personal responsibility so I have to believe in punishment. But locking people up and doing nothing to change there behave other than punishment never made much sense to me. I like this idea. Johnny Cash would approve.
Audiotuts has a list of affordable mics. It is a pretty good list me thinks. But you might want to check out Studio Projects which lower then mics I think are a good value.
Audiotuts also had this link below there mic list but it is a good link that you might have miss to Jake Ludington’s guide to making you own pop filter. Anyone could do this one.
Frank Zappa is not everyones cup o’ tea but he sure is damn quotable read for yourself.
I use Reason and Ableton Live together. Reason is the most incredable sound bank rewired into Live. Here is a good video on using the 2 together.
lo dev alm has cool Max/MSP tools.
Virtual Guitar is a cool tool for fretboard learning.
If you like the strange and weird like me you should check out The Oddstrument Collection.

hello, thanks for the link to my website
feel free to ask questions via my email if you’d want to.
cheers,
julien
(working on the RGB OPENSOURCE version)