Videouti is a freeware that allows you to trigger videos using MIDI devices. You can mix four videos, with your keyboard or sequencer: You can trigger them from notes, velocity and pitch bend. You can also modify some parameters in real-time using MIDI controllers. But before you start mixing and playing your four videos at a time, you'll need a good (fast) computer and a DV camcorder.

The all-in-one suite of guitar software tools, "Guitar Shed" has been updated to version 2.5. This new release includes many improvements and feature additions. New features include: Major overall speed improvements., Chromatic Tuner is much more accurate and less-CPU intensive, Chromatic Tuner start errors fixed, Alternate Tunings now show correctly, Fixed a bug where corrupted Alternate Tunings would crash Guitar Shed on start, Tone Tuner now displays Alternate Tunings in correct order (6th -> 1st String), and more.

GTuner is a software that turns your mac in a guitar tuner. The new version 1.0.1 features : new alternate and open tunings selector in Preferences, improved OpenGL full screen and window view with a smoother and less jerky needle, and escape key now exits fullscreen mode. GTuner is a shareware.

ModernBeats.com has expanded its downloadable library of HipHop soundware with a new modern claps soundset titled "Klub Klapz 1", MAC supported. The soundset is sold as a multi-format product for all major software samplers. Native formats inlcude HALion, EXS24, Kontakt, Battery, Reason's NN-XT, SF2, and Wav.

"Klub Klapz 1" contains over 190 samples of various claps all modeled after popular trends in HipHop production. The soundset is organized into 6 major categories: Solo Klapz, Melo Klapz, Stacked Klapz 1 & 2, Bounce Klapz, and Wild Urban Klapz. The soundset features single and group hiphop style claps, as well as, claps layered with snaps, vocal sounds, metallic jingles, assorted crackles, gritty snares, and many other modern sounds.

All clap samples were recorded using Class A ...

Insignificance is developping a MIDI pattern/step sequencer on Mac OS X.3 using Cocoa and Objective-C. 16 tracks of 8 patterns.

It's free, and feedback could help...