KVR launched its second annual freeware developer’s challenge last night. Forty-one free musical things available for download, with of course some duds and some gems.

Highlights for me are Nicolas Fournel’s Blip, a drawing step sequencer, lidsquid audio’s Grapheed, a sequenced granular playback sampler, and xoxos’ nature models, of which the bird and insect models are absolutely dazzling.

Click the link in the first sentence to take you there.