Ableton has one as well. Which DAW are you using?

The BlueCat FreqAnalyst looks good.

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I second the motion for drones or possibly aleatoric.

Dice, or it doesn't happen.

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lowercase or wall noise

The first digital audio recorder I used was a zoom H4. It suffered from electrical noise as well as self-noise when handling. The H4n appears to be a lot better, but I'm not sure you will get quality recordings from the XLR jacks. I ended up buying a Sony M10. The Sony is a great little audio recorder. The only downside is that if you don't use it fro a few months, the clock can forget what day it is. Sound quality is great, and it will run nearly forever on a pair of Eneloops. Unlike what you'd expect of Sony, it actually works with standard MicroSDHC cards, so you can fill it up with 16 GB of recording capacity (20 GB total, including the 4GB built-in) inexpensive. That's enough to do 20 hours of 24bit/44.1KHz recording.

I haven't tried Max/MSP. I've mostly done Reaktor and PureData, then went crazy and built a Eurorack system.

I don't always work with a DAW, but when I do I use Ableton. Or sometimes Logic.