Hal Leonard has announced it has published the The Worship Guitar Book by Doug Doppler and The Worship Drum Book by Carl Albrecht, two Worship Musician series books.

With the release of The Worship Guitar Book, acclaimed guitar talent and music industry expert Doug Doppler has written the most comprehensive guide for today’s worship guitarists. Being an accomplished musician and a true worshipper himself, he understands the challenges that worship guitarists face every day, and provides answers and help for those who want to express their love for God through the gift of music.

The Worship Drum Book: Concepts to Empower Excellence is a powerful guide for drummers playing in both contemporary and traditional churches that are transitioning into using full rhythm sections rather than just organ or piano. This book covers methods of playing and explains concepts for touring with ministry groups and worship artists. But most of all, it will help drummers understand their calling as a minstrel for the Lord in the modern worship world, and have the drums speak from their heart.

Both book/DVD sets are available to purchase for $19.99 USD each.

More information: Hal Leonard Books

Image-Line has announced version 11.02 of FL Studio, the music production software for Windows.

FL Studio 11 was our biggest release ever, with over 1 million hits on our site in the first hour after release. And so, we are happy to announce the 11.0.2 update that includes some cool new features and fixes.

Get the full FL Studio 11.0.2 installer here (300 Mb) or the update patcher here (49 Mb)

If you missed the 11.0.1 update that we put on the FL Studio discussion forum (Looptalk) then you’ll be interested to learn about Control Surface and Control Creator

Changes in FL Studio v11.02

• Additions:
  • Support for Livid OhmRGB.
  • Support for Behringer CMD LC-1.
  • Benn Jordan (The Flashbulb) Cool Stuff project – Cassette Cafe.
• Bugfixes:
  • Fixed hint for time stretch wheel (low values).
  • Fixed slow rendering bugs.
  • Fixed PPQ change bug.
  • Remembers the state of the PR random tool’s “patterns” checkbox.
  • Fixed channel settings window showing up when loading projects.
  • Patcher: fixed editor focus on double-click.
  • Patcher: connection settings are now when an effect is dropped on a connection.
  • Patcher: fixed request by plugin to load sample.
  • DW 1.5.4: fixed import of FLM .instr files.
  • Newtone: fixed passing strings with “foreign” characters to the engine.
  • Newtone: fixed zooming modifiers (alt+scroll wheel).
  • Newtone: show param value popup when multiple items are selected.
  • Newtone: new “Use beat marks” option for warp mode.
  • Newtone: save .zpa and .zpw files to zipped loops.
  • Wrapper: fixed relative knob behaviour for bridged plugins.
  • Wrapper: fixed loading multiple instances of Waves VST3.
  • Vocodex: fixed loading state of threaded checkbox.
  • EQUO: fixed restoring state of Morph knob.
  • Drumaxx: fixed changing assigned note for pads.
  • BassDrum and GMS: various bug fixes.
  • ZGEViz: updated/added some presets.
  • Wave Traveller: fixed crash when loading a sample.
  • Updated NewStuff & Zircon-Just hold on.

FL Studio 11 is available to purchase starting at $49 USD. New Image-Line customers can save 10% off their order of $99 USD or more at the Image-Line online shop.

More information: FL Studio

8Dio Productions has announced its Memorial Day Sale, a limited time offer to build your own bundle and get 25% discount.

8DIO MEMORIAL DAY SALE – Summer is upon us! Kick off summer right with our MEMORIAL DAY SALE event and enjoy 25% OFF by building your own bundle*!

Go to 8Dio.com and use our Memorial Day discount code and apply it to your purchase – offer only lasts till Sunday, May 26th. All you have to do is add the libraries to the cart, then enter the discount code MEMOSALE and click “Update Cart”.

The Memorial Day Sale ends on Sunday 26th of May, 2013, at 11.59PM.

More information: 8Dio / Memorial Day Sale

*requires a minimum of three items and a total of over $299 USD.

Whitebox Synth Makers has announced the release of Key Pad, a sound library for Ableton Live.

I’ve taken some samples off the Live 8 Ambient and Evolving Racks and put them into a Live 9 Intro rack to make a bifocal instrument that sweeps from an upfront keyboard sound reminiscent of a Witchitaw Lineman Fender Rhodes to a distant trippy FX pad that sounds like it’s straight out of Unknown Pleasures. It’s lush and magnificent.

The Key Pad pack costs $1 USD. Max For Live not required.

More information: Whitebox Synth Makers

Ueberschall has released Future Garage, a new soundbank for the Elastik Player.

Future Garage combines 2-step, dubstep, deep house and dub techno in a unique style. Far away from the mainstream, these four construction kits create hypnotic, dark and relaxed ambiences ranging from 118 to 138 BPM.

Future Garage is an excellent library for modern and contemporary music production. Find authentic loop-material and similarly inspiring groove-ideas here. Besides music productions, this library is a terrific choice for trailers, jingles and dubbing.

Future Garage has been produced with great attention to detail. The sound bank is 700 MB in size and offers heavy ultra deep sub-basslines, wobbling pads, widespread choruses and loose, broken drums. Among the 139 loops, ranging from 8 to 16 bars length, you will find mix- and backing-parts, drum-mixes as well as loops of bass drum, snare/clap, hi-hat, percussions, bass, synths and FX. Additionally the 69 single sounds can easily be combined to new drum patterns. Individual tracks are available for each of the four construction kits, allowing for complete re-arrangements and new constructions. To offer further flexibility, the kits are also divided into subfolders such as intro, a-part, b-part and outro.

The content has been carefully prepared for modern productions with high standards while meeting high demands to flexibility at the same time. The construction kits‘ modular structure allows the content to be used in various productions, from film dubbing, web and apps to other music projects. In addition, the libraries offer all samples to create authentic styles – delivered in highest quality as you can expect from Ueberschall.

The sound library costs 29 EUR.

More information: Ueberschall / Future Garage

Mystery Islands has announced the release of the JP-80×0 Hardware Editor Plug-in for Mac.

You ever wanted to control, automate & work with your JP-8000 / JP-8080 the way this modern world requires? Now it’s possible with our AU / VST plugin that allows you to get your Hardware into your modern DAW. We developed this plugin together with Arto Vaarala who’s long experience with coding made all this possible.

JP-80×0 editor features

• Load in as an AudioUnit or VST for MAC (32 & 64 bit INTEL only!)
• Edit both layers separately from single plugin window.
• Link layers to edit both layers at the same time.
• Scroll thru User Performances (U:11 – U:88) from Hardware.
• Sends out all parameter values when you open up your project with the plugin or load a saved patch.
• MIDI & SysEx transmission between the DAW and the Hardware (requires MIDI interface).
• Patches saved within your daw are scrollable.
• Load and Save banks to and from your HDD.
• Edit almost every function of your JP. JP-8080 and JP-8000 incompatible parameters marked with **.
• All important parameters can be automated.

The plugin is now available to purchase for Mac (VST/AU) for 49.95 EUR. Windows VSTi is scheduled for release in Q3, 2013.

More information: Mystery Islands / JP-80×0 Editor