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The London Electronic Music Event (LEME) has announced the dates and line-up for its 2013 Event, with sessions from Beatport, Radio Slave, SoundCloud, Andi Durrant, Your Army, Mr Bongo, Sharooz and more.

LEME is a weekend of production workshops, business sessions, keynote panels and networking events bringing together artists, labels, entrepreneurs and like-minded electronic music lovers from around the world. Now in its second year, LEME will take place 13-14 April, 2013 in Rich Mix, London.

LEME gives 200 delegates the chance to custom-build their own timetable from 22 sessions led by expert speakers from all sectors of the electronic music industry.

Highlights of the 2013 programme include: Bigger Beatport Sales; Running a Label; How To Break Through; Business Basics for the Freelance Musician; Making Your Mix Slam; The Perfect Arrangement; Mastering Alchemy: the Gold Standard and What Goes Where? The EQ Masterclass.

Weekend tickets are availabe for the earlybird price of £140 GBP.

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Hal Leonard Books has published Minding Your Business, a guide to money and taxes for creative professionals by Martin Kamenski.

If there is anything a creative person tends to dislike more than talking about money, it’s talking about taxes. But paying attention to the business side of your art is important, and author and practicing CPA, Martin Kamenski, takes you by the hand and leads you through the tangled web of the IRS.

This book will end your fear of taxes and will help you lead the life you crave as a creative professional. The language is easy to understand for even the most number-illiterate. Minding Your Business provides guidance about when to treat yourself as a business, including all important considerations before incorporating and shattering some of the most prevalent (and costly) myths existing in the artistic community.

Minding Your Business is suitable for any actor, writer, musician, dancer, photographer, director, model, visual artist, band, or production company. The author’s Chicago-based practice serves clients nationwide and offers artists and creative professionals the explanations they need. Kamenski has taken the very fine-tuned method of explaining taxes that made his practice successful and condensed it in a book that will pay for itself tenfold. The playing field is about to be leveled. Prepare to feel in control of your financial future!

The book is available to purchase for $19.99 USD.

More information: Hal Leonard Books / Minding Your Business

Anystone Technologies has updated the Anytune music slow downer practice app to version 3.5.

Slow down music, choose the perfect pitch, and learn to play by ear. Slow Downer Music Practice Perfected. Anytune Pro+ is a universal app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

Changes in Anytune v3.5

• ReTune – Associate a tempo, pitch or delay time with marks.
• Built-in Recording.
• Export a tuned track via Email or Open-In.
• Search for Tunes, Songs, Playlists, Artists and Albums.
• Change sort order of Tunes list: Manual, Alphabetical, Date Imported, Date Last Played.
• Delayed playback start.
• User defined preset names for audio marks.
• Autoplay option on mark selection.
• Ability to shift loop from A->B or B->A and 1/2 or x2 the size of the loop.
• Set default tempo, pitch and gain for newly imported songs.
• Enhanced help menu.
• Improved Facebook and Twitter sharing options.
• Loop once option.
• Graphical UI enhancements.

As of the launch of Anytune 3.5 the app is available as Anytune (free), and Anytune Pro+ (previously Anytune Pro HQ), priced at $16.99 USD.

More information: Anytune

Hal Leonard Books has announced it is now shipping Welcome to the Jungle by Jim Klein, a guide for freelancers who want to succeed in the music and audio industries.

Thousands of people try to make a living as musicians and audio professionals. Most of them fail, and not because they lack talent or the will to succeed. They fail because no matter how much training they’ve received or how hard they’ve practiced, they don’t know how to face the challenges that await them in the “real world.” No matter how much technical or musical skill aspirants may have acquired, there is always a huge gap in their understanding of how that world works.

Do they understand how to behave in a professional environment? When to talk and when to listen? What about developing a personal work ethic, a support system, and a reasonable set of immediate and future plans to make goals into realities? In his dual role as a successful music and audio freelancer of over 30 years and tenured college professor, Jim Klein has not only the knowledge of what it takes to succeed as a freelancer in the competitive fields of music and audio, but also the understanding of exactly what the new aspirant needs to know to take on that world.

Klein has crafted his advice into a book that is detailed, complete, and easy to understand. Welcome to the Jungle includes chapters on setting goals, networking, building a portfolio, time management, personal and professional finances, and dealing with the ups and downs of the freelance career. The book also includes interviews with successful music and audio freelancers, such as legendary producer Howard Benson (Kelly Clarkson, Santana, Daughtry), producer/engineer Kevin Killen (Peter Gabriel, U2, Elvis Costello), bassist Julie Slick, and others.

The book is available to purchase for $24.99 USD.

More information: Hal Leonard Books / Welcome to the Jungle

Intua has released version 2.4 of the BeatMaker music app for iOS.

Combining music production tools that were behind the success of countless artists, BeatMaker 2 is a powerful, easy-to-use composition interface for amateurs and professionals alike.

Changes in BeatMaker v2.4

• Stereo bus recording on audio tracks.
• Four audio sends available per mixer tracks.
• New 6-band parametric equalizer (LPF, low shelf, band-pass, peak, notch, high shelf, HPF).
• New side-chain option in compressor effect.
• Double-tapping track handles in sequencer brings instrument/audio track configuration.
• iPhone 5 compatibility.
• UI and engine improvements.
• Time-stretch and pitch-shift quality/settings have been improved.
• Ability to zoom vertically in the sequencer.
• Faster graphic rendering on iPad 3 with iOS 6.x installed.
• Improve virtual MIDI.
• Updated Dropbox SDK to 1.3.2.
• Fix a bug in empty keyboard sampler when LFO settings were changed.
• Dropbox will now work when background mode is disabled.
• Fix file transfer lock issue on iOS 6.
• Fix handling of incoming “packed” MIDI data (Genome MIDI sequencer, etc.)

The app is available to purchase for $19.99 USD.

More information: Intua / BeatMaker

Hal Leonard Books has announced Making the Scene: Nashville, a step-by-step guide by Liam Sullivan, showing you how to live, network, and succeed in Nashville.

How hot is Nashville? So hot that when ABC was looking for a setting for a musical/drama series to compete with Fox’s Glee and NBC’s Smash, it landed in Music City, U.S.A. Aspiring singer-songwriters, country music fans, and musicians of all stripes inspired by ABC’s Nashville to move to country music’s hometown will find a wealth of invaluable information about what it will take to make their mark in Making the Scene: Nashville – How to Live, Network, and Succeed in Music City by Liam Sullivan.

One could argue that moving to Nashville is the easy part. Getting acclimated and gaining a foothold in the Nashville music scene can be another story. Making the Scene: Nashville addresses those challenges, while serving as a comprehensive guide for musicians and artists looking to move to and establish themselves in the city. Making the Scene: Nashville is filled with interviews with Music Industry professionals, who provide insight into how the music scene in Nashville works and what the best plan of attack is for hitting the big time.

There are also uplifting and heartwarming interviews with singer-songwriters from around the country who have made the move and embrace Nashville as their new musical home. Music venues in Nashville are plentiful and bustling with singers and songwriters every night, and Sullivan lays out a step-by-step approach to figuring out not only how to get gigs, but also understanding how the music business in Nashville works. With the help of interviews with a host of Music Row professionals, Making the Scene: Nashville covers every facet of Nashville’s music scene: from tips to performing “live” to understanding music publishing terms that every musician should know. Sullivan explains the best way to approach an open mic or writer’s night, and maps out the most musician-friendly neighborhoods. He also looks at Nashville’s hundred years of music history, important to know when speaking with music publishers and executives alike.

Van Morrison once said, “Music is spiritual, but the music business is not.” From where to buy gear to where to see live music and where to network and exchange ideas with other musicians, Making the Scene: Nashville provides the tools newcomers will need to meet the challenges of the business and make the move to Nashville.

The book is available to purchase for $19.99 USD.

More information: Hal Leonard Books / Making the Scene: Nashville