We at 440Network are very proud to announce the launch of 440TV, our new video broadcast site exclusively geared to musicians, and pro audio enthusiasts.

We hope you will enjoy finding hundreds of useful gear reviews, tutorials, e-lessons, interviews of renown professionals as well as hot tips & tricks and much more. The community site spirit remains in the way that you guys can rate, comment, share and upload your own videos for an always richer site content...

Facing such huge content, we worked hard to provide an intuitive interface where all you have to do is sort videos by "Category", "Date", "Popularity", or simply by "Manufacturers". A special attention has been brought to the search engine providing an easy to use while very powerful search tool.

It should here be reminded that any of you registered at MacMusic, PcMusic or 440Forums can automatically be logged-in to all other sites of the network including 440TV, which is pretty cool isn't it?

440TV is now live from the following URL : http://www.440tv.com

Just have fun and post a comment if you feel anything could be optimized on 440TV or just to say hi ;-)

Many years ago, Brian Eno popularised the term "generative music" to describe music that is ever-different and changing, and that is created by a system. Let me introduce you to Nodal, a generative software application for composing music designed by Peter Mcilwain.

Nodal uses a novel method for the notation and playing of MIDI based music. This method is based around the concept of a user-defined graph. The graph consists of nodes (musical events) and edges (connections between events). You interactively define the graph, which is then traversed by any number of players who play the musical events as they encounter them on the graph. The time taken to travel from one node to another is based on the length of the edges that connect the nodes.

Nodal is a freeware for Mac OS X.

Future Audio Workshop (FAW) has released a new bank of 30 sounds for Circle, their fabulous semi-modular software synthesizer. Designed by Dajan Izzo, this first Circle Sound bank is available now on the Circle downloads page, here.

Note that you will also find on this page a comprehensive template for using Circle with the Lemur multi touch control surface. This template can be used in its entireity or as base for making your own custom templates.

Sample Logic is proud to present its latest virtual instrument, Synergy. Weighing in at over 18 Gigabytes, this epic collection of 1200+ instruments, tempo-synced loops, and multis delivers the next generation of diverse sounds in an intuitive user interface.  

Powered by Native Instruments Kontakt Player engine, Synergy utilizes extended sample synthesis and effectual techniques to provide you interactive, ready-to-play instruments. With Synergy's flexible sound sculpting interface, control is in your hands. Simply put, all instruments can be modified, redesigned, and customized to your preference. This makes Synergy perfect for any performance and production environment.

Ambience (295 patches)
Bass (54 patches)
Drums (55 patches)
Impacts (269 patches)
Melody (173 patches)
Pads (57 patches)
Rhythms (270 patches)
Multis (40 patches)

Synergie is available now for Mac OS X and Windows in VST, AU, DXi, RTAS and Standalone versions for a fee of $299.

Ambrosia Software has just announced the release of WireTap Anywhere, a low latency audio tool that lets you take the audio output from any Mac application or hardware input device and bring it into your favorite audio recording application.

Any program that produces audio can appear as an audio input device, allowing you to record or process it in any other application that can record from a microphone or other audio input device. For instance, record both sides of a Skype or iChat conversation directly into Peak for editing... or go the other way, and pipe the audio output of Logic Pro over Skype or iChat for a friend to listen to.

Easily create and edit all of your WireTap Anywhere devices from System Preferences. Once your devices are created, simply change the input within your favorite audio application, and you're ready to monitor, process, and record.

Best of all, mix any combination of applications and input devices into a single, logical device. Simply select the software or hardware inputs you want, and WireTap Anywhere will handle the rest.

WireTap Anywhere costs $129, is a Universal Binary, and requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.