Tools (software & controllers)

MAX/MSP

Silence version 8.1 with CsoundVST version 0.6
A user-extensible system for making music by means of software alone

Philip Aker has some downloadables on his site

Litter Power began life as a set of Max Patchers implementing a large collection of random number distributions (see Litter Classic below). In the new Litter Power Package all of these generators have been implemented as external objects, resulting in execution speeds in the area of ten to twenty times faster than in previous incarnations...

Viditar - video editing guitar for live video performance, introduced by the ocular noise machine

Interactive video "playground swing"

Rebelle - the multimedia workstation you've been waiting for. just beware where you click

Sample Tank - The world's premier professional sound module is now available as a VST/MAS plug-in. Feel the power of SampleTank's rich, full-textured sounds.