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DSK Music has released SaxophoneZ, a freeware sax virtual instrument for Windows PC.
Features:

3 types of saxophone: Soprano, Alto & Tenor.
Velocity response.
Amp. envelope and micro-detuner.
HP/LP Filter.
2 Fx (reverb & chorus).

Livid Instruments has released Livid Looper, free, open source audio manipulation software for Mac & PC. Designed to emphasize simplicity and hands-on control, short loops of audio can be sliced, diced, scrambled, and transformed with built-in and VST effects.
“Since we released our Ohm MIDI controller, we have had a dramatic increase in DJs, laptop musicians, [...]

Mixxx, the free, open source DJ application for Windows, Mac & Linux, has been updated and is available as a free software download.
According to the developers:
Mixxx 1.6.0 represents over a year’s worth of hard work from our growing development team. The development of 1.6.0 was been driven by continuous feedback from our users, the bulk [...]

Togu Audio Line has released TAL-DUB-II, an extended version of its free dub delay for Mac and Windows, with a completely new sound engine.
A 4x oversampled distortion stage allows to add vintage distortion to the delayd signal, but its also possible to make clean delays. A sinusoidal LFO has the possibility to modulate delay time [...]

Koblo has announced that Koblo Studio, a free open-source music application, is now available for download.
Versions are available for Windows and Mac. A Linux port is in the works.
The software is currently in Alpha, and therefore has bugs and incomplete features.

You must first create a new session, then you can save without crashing.
The Audio Engine [...]

DSK has released a new free virtual instrument for Windows, DSK AkoustiK GuitarZ.
Features:

4 acoustic guitar type
Amp. envelope and fine tunning
Stereo spread and portamento
3 Fx (flanger, delay & chorus)
Velocity response

InstantSampler is a freeware simple sampler for Mac and Windows that records audio from the audio input when a MIDI note is played for the first time.
Any consecutive time you play the same note, it plays back the recorded audio with the possibility to vary or trigger:

Velocity.
Attack and release.
The level of the input [...]

BetabugsAudio has released a Universal Binary version of GetaBlitch Jr., a freeware sequenced gate effect plug-in.
GetaBlitch Jr. stops audio from passing through until it receives one of two user-defined MIDI notes. These may be programmed as a MIDI part, or played live.
GetaBlitch Jr. features:

Note L & R: These knobs allows the user to set [...]

Digimix is an interesting new application that promises to put audio mixing into your Web browser.
While Hobnox’s AudioTool is like Reason for your Web browser, Digimix is a browser-based audio mixing program. It lets you mix high-quality audio and offers many of the features of a programlike Garageband: an easy-to-use interface, effects and automation.
This is [...]

Sonic Visualizer, a free application designed to make exploring audio data as fun as possible, has been updated.
Sonic Visualiser will be of particular interest to musicologists, archivists, signal-processing researchers and anyone else looking for a friendly way to take a look at what lies inside the audio file.
Sonic Visualiser has powerful annotation capabilities to help [...]