Sibelius announces that all of Sibelius Software's products have been tested on Apple's latest operating system, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, and have been found to work without any serious problems. The applications Sibelius tested and found to have no problems include:

- Sibelius 3.1.x
- Kontakt Player Silver
- Kontakt Player Gold
- Sibelius 2.1.1
- G7 Kontakt Edition (v3.3)
- Sibelius Instruments
- Sibelius Compass
- Sibelius Notes
- Auralia

Note that if you have Adobe Reader 7 installed on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Sibelius Starclass may give an error message about QuickTime when it tries to play sounds. If you encounter this problem, we suggest you download and install Adobe Reader 6.

Finalemusic announces they recently discovered a change from beta version of Tiger that causes the fonts to not appear initially in Finale. So after updating to 10.4, if you notice that fonts in Finale do not appear, follow these steps:

- Go to Macintosh HD/Library/Caches
- Delete com.apple.ATS (user will be prompted for an admin password)
- Restart
- Empty Trash

The com file will be regenerated and properly updated, and Finale should be fine.

NUSofting has released Peti Harmonium-Accordion plug-in for Mac OS X. Peti uses hybrid FM synthesis technology to emulate the sounds of the Harmonium, and it is capable of emulating a wide variety of reed organ variations, as well as timbres which resemble instruments from accordions to pipe organs. It also emulates various features of the Harmonium, including the noise of air in the bellows and chambers, and a 'musette' tremolo feature.

Peti (VST and Audio Units) costs $46.90 and a demo version is available.

It's new, and it's only for you ! For the very first time, MacMusic is proud to unveil its MacMusic widget. This widget for MacOS 10.4.x (Tiger) prints the latest news, software updates and articles published on MacMusic.org.

MacMusic Widget 1.0 is available for free from our software section.

Apple today launched four new iTunes Music Stores in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland featuring songs from all four major music companies and over 1,000 independent record labels. The four new iTunes Music Stores offer the same features, and pricing that other iTunes online music services.

In conjunction with the iTunes Music Store launch in Switzerland, Apple and UBS today announced a promotion to give every Swiss citizen a free song on the iTunes Music Store.