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M-Audio has released a new FireWire driver for Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.2.
This driver update is available immediately for the following devices :

FireWire 1814
FireWire 410
FireWire Audiophile
FireWire Solo
NRV10
Ozonic

This driver does not support ProjectMix I/O or ProFire Lightbridge.

OT: This music video, for the song Again and Again by Bird & the Bee, makes really clever use of various features of Mac OS X, creating a constantly changing visual interpretation of the music, despite limited resources. Very cool!

MachineCodex Software has announced the release of AudioCodex v1.0, a Mac media player on steroids:
AudioCodex is made for musicians, DJs, audiophiles and casual listeners alike. AudioCodex tightly integrates your media, iTunes Library, Quartz Compositions and CoreAudio Audio Units effects.
AudioCodex allows users to easily create loops and apply real-time Audio Units effects to tracks from [...]

Max 5 is now available for download. A 30-day demo download is available that combines Max & Jitter.
Max is an interactive programming environment for music, audio, and media. Jitter is a set of video, matrix, and 3D graphics objects for Max.
Max is a true cross-platform system compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows XP/Vista.
Max/MSP/Jitter [...]

Ardour 2.4, the latest version of the free digital audio workstation for Linux & OS X, is finally released. 
Features

on OS X, direct support for import of all file types supported by CoreAudio, including MP3 and AAC. Linux users can take comfort: there is ongoing work to offer similar capabilities on their platform.
per-track faders in editor [...]

The Amazing Rolo has announced Loop Machine 2.0.
Loop Machine is music software that uses the Nintendo Wii remote as a wireless gestural interface for creating loop-based music. It’s an easy to use, powerful, and fun music creation and performance tool. According to the Amazing Rolo, you can load in any audio ?les or loops [...]

Instasampler is a new free sampler for OS X.
Description: 
The plugin takes its samples (instantly) from the audio input whenever you hit a specific MIDI note for the first time. Every consecutive time you hit the same MIDI-note, it plays back the recorded fragment (or shorter, depending on the note’s length).
When you play the sampled fragments, [...]

 

 Instasampler in action [0:17m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Remember the annoying music that made you remember why you hate Windows?
Now you can hate Mac sounds, too: