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New Atlantis Audio has launched Loop Life, a book featuring pro tips and essential info for a successful career making loops, samples, and presets.

Packed with essential info, insights, tips, and proven strategies from twelve year veterans of the indie soundware industry New Atlantis Audio – Loop Life is the only book designed to help you turn your passion for sampling, sound design, and music into a career you love.

This market is thriving, growing, and evolving constantly – Loop Life is your survival guide.

Loop Life comes as an instant download and includes automatic free updates for life. Through November 17, 2012 Rekkerd readers can enter the code REKKERD in their cart for $5 off their copy!

The first chapter is available to download at no charge.

More information: Loop Life

Backbeat Books has announced Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Lyric Book, a collection featuring never-before-seen songs, photos, and handwritten lyrics.

Jimi Hendrix was such an extraordinary guitarist, it is easy to forget that just as much passion, soul, and precision went into his lyrics. Inspired by Bob Dylan, Hendrix was a fearless lyrical innovator, willing to let his imagination guide him to uncharted landscapes within the pop music realm. From the existential euphoria of “I Don’t Live Today” to the elusive beauty of “Little Wing” to the psychedelic blues of “My Friend” to the otherworldly “1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be),” his lyrics remain among the greatest in the pantheon of rock, infused with the same inventiveness, virtuosity, and courage that informed his guitar playing.

Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book contains all the words to the Hendrix classics fans have rocked along to for years, as well as unpublished songs from “Valley of Neptune” and other previously undiscovered sources. Compiled by Jimi’s sister, Janie L. Hendrix, Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book is extraordinarily personal, and includes numerous examples of Jimi’s handwritten lyrics, often scribbled on hotel stationery, as well as photos of him that accompany every song.

Much of the material has never been seen before. “When I was a child, I was always fascinated by my brother Jimi’s handwriting,” recalled Janie Hendrix, who compiled this collection. “It was an art form in and of itself. I remember the feeling of being captivated the first time I saw his handwritten lyrics, thinking how beautiful, how complicated both the writing and the words were on paper. Even now they offer such an insight into who my brother was and is.”

Jimi Hendrix: The Ultimate Lyric Book will give fans a glimpse of the lyricist behind the songs, a songwriter whose words were just as searing as his solos.

The book is available to purchase for $40 USD.

More information: Backbeat Books / Jimi Hendrix The Ultimate Lyric Book

Sample Magic has announced a special sale on its music production books, offering a 20% discount for a limited time.

Buy our best-selling music production books, The Secrets of House Music Production and The Producer’s Manual, with our bargain-tastic 20% off discount code BOOKSALE until 20th November!

Whether you’re a beginner looking to learn the ropes or a seasoned pro looking to polish your skills, these comprehensive books are packed with all the the essential pro techniques, practical photos, detailed illustrations and hands-on walkthroughs for contemporary music production, whatever your genre.

More information: Sample Magic

The guitar, particularly in its electric form, is the most influential instrument of the past 60 years.

Guitar Masters: Intimate Portraits by Alan di Perna spotlights the players who made it that way: the visionary talents and living legends who developed the sound and style of the electric guitar as we know it and love it.

Guitar Masters traces the life stories and assesses the musical legacies of superstar guitarists as well as lesser known, but equally influential sidemen: Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Steve Cropper, Dick Dale, Pete Townshend, Billy Gibbons, James Burton, David Gilmour, and Keith Richards. Veteran music journalist di Perna draws on three decades worth of experience as a writer and interviewer to extract the essence of what makes each of these gifted guitarists unique.

As di Perna writes in his preface, “Much has been written – a good deal of it by me – about how the electric guitar changed the sound and essential nature of popular music in the middle years of the twentieth century, launching a counter culture youth revolution as a sideline. And much of this cultural history has focused on the tremendous advances in guitar technology that took place from roughly the 1930s to the 1970s, and the work of pioneers like Leo Fender, Ted McCarty, Paul Bigsby, Jim Marshall, Roger Mayer, and others.”

“All this is undeniably true,” di Perna concedes. “But none of it would mean a damn thing if it had not been for the visionary guitar players who adopted this fledgling technology and, each in his own way, made glorious, game-changing, populist, heart-wrenchingly beautiful art out of the stuff.” The stories di Perna tells are as diverse as they are inspiring, yet what each of these guitar masters shares is an unshakable dedication to his craft and a deeply intuitive connection with their chosen instrument.

Guitar Masters gives fans and players new insights into the lives and music of the guitarists who showed us what a guitar can sound like and how it can move us like no other instrument can.

The book is available to purchase for $29.99 USD.

More information: Hal Leonard / Guitar Masters: Intimate Portraits

Hal Leonard has announced that its MusicPro Guides is offering a chance to win free books and a Skype call with the author.

To celebrate another great year at the Audio Engineering Society convention, MusicPro Guides is giving away prizes on our YouTube channel. If you didn’t attend AES or simply couldn’t make it to the Hal Leonard booth, don’t worry, you can still enter the giveaway!

Simply visit youtube.com/musicproguides by November 12th and subscribe to our channel. If you are already a subscriber, enter the giveaway by commenting on the video on the front page of our channel. Then, visit our channel again on November 27th to see if you won. We’ll post a video announcing the four winners.

MusicPro Guides giveaway prizes

• The complete Mixerman book collection, Desktop Mastering and Electronic Musician Presents the Recording Secrets Behind 50 Great Albums, 2 Quick Pro Guides, and 1 other software book of your choice.
• GRAND PRIZE: a Skype call with Bruce Swedien and a copy of Q on Producing by Quincy Jones and Bill Gibson.

More information: MusicPro Guides

Rob Papen has announced The secrets of subtractive synthesis “The 4 Element Synth”, a sound design book and DVD set.

Rob Papen is a globally renowned sound designer whose sounds and virtual synthesizers are used and loved by many synthesizer players and music producers.

This 200+ page book, which is accompanied by four DVDs with over 10 hours of content, gives an in-depth insight into his approach of working with subtractive synthesis.

In 2001, Rob Papen began giving exclusive masterclasses teaching ‘synthesizer sound design” in his studio. For these training sessions, Rob developed his own method to explain the secrets of subtractive synthesis, called “The 4 Element Synth”. This masterclass training is now transformed into a combined book and DVD package that also delivers numerous ‘tips and tricks’ which will help you to design and tweak your own sounds. Throughout the masterclass, a variety of hardware and software synthesizers are explored.

We are sure this synthesizer sound design training is an eye-opener for every synthesizer player, from novice to pro. A must have for everyone who takes his sounds seriously!

The secrets of subtractive synthesis is expected tho ship in November/Early December, 2012, priced at 74 EUR/$89 USD (excl. shipping).

More information: Rob Papen / The secrets of subtractive synthesis