SoundFont Synth is an Audio Unit plug-in designed to make the synthesis of natural instruments using Sound Fonts, available to GarageBand or any other Audio Unit compatible host. SoundFont Synth has been updated to v1.1.1 and now features :handndles 'All Notes Off' correctly and can now be placed in ~/Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components as well as /Library/Audio/Plug-ins/Components.

SoundFont Synth is shareware and costs $15

A new resource package on editing GarageBand loops was launched today by the GarageDoor. It includes the GarageBand Scales Catalogue, which contains over forty scales in GB format to play and analyse. These scales, ranging from the common major, minor and blues to colorful scales like Hungarian Gypsy, Neapolitan and Balinese, can then be used to modify regular GarageBand loops and expand the user's loop library with exotic variations.

The GarageDoor - Tips & Tricks for GarageBand users contains tips & tricks, home recording ideas and links to new sounds and loops. The GarageDoor aims at desktop musicians from beginner to intermediate level, and has pages on live & Midi Recording, effects, mixing and mastering, music theory and GarageBand desktop equipment.

The Scales Catalogue and exotic loops tutorial can be found on thegaragedoor web site.

Bitcartel announces an update to iRecordMusic 1.3, bringing it to build 27. This update provides localisation in 8 languages: Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish.

Registered users can upgrade for free and free copies are also available for those who can help translate the software.

Apple previewed Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger," the fifth major version of Mac OS X that will ship in the first half of 2005. Tiger continues Apple's innovations with more than 150 new features including Spotlight, a new way to instantly find any file, Safari RSS, Core Image and Core Video, QuickTime support for MPEG-4 video codec H.264, 64-bit processes, and more...

Mac OS 10.4 Tiger will be available in the first half of 2005 for a suggested retail price of $129 (US).

Juke Box Limited announces that the Solid State Logic's AWS 900 is available for sale. The AWS 900 is a compact SSL console that offers 24 ultra low-noise/double-impedance mic preamplifiers, 24 channels with a 4-bands/dual-curve parametric EQ, noise gate, expander, compressor/limiter as well as a direct access to all of the main mixing, editing and automation parameters, a colour FFT screen and much more…

The AWS 900 SSL is distributed by Juke Box Limited and costs 74000 euros (ex VAT).