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FingerWorks is a free, educational tool to learn the notes on a fretboard of a guitar.

FingerWorks is best used with a guitar teacher or a coach but can, of course, be used alone.

FingerWorks gives you a note to locate starting on the 6th string of your guitar. Based on your settings you will have to find the next note on the next string, which is shown on the screen.
For beginners it is recommended to only use the software with the 6th string alone since this exercise can become mind-bending very quickly for a novice. From there, add one string at a time until you become fluent with all of the notes on the guitar neck!
A left-handed mode is available so you can see the guitar neck the way you play!

The idea of FingerWorks came from a real exercise practiced every day with a guitar teacher, but now you have access to your own virtual guitar teacher on your Mac!

Native Instruments today launched a special 'Cloud 9' offer on their MASCHINE Expansion series.

Nine of the hugely popular sound packs for use with MASCHINE and MASCHINE MIKRO are being offered for $ 99 / 99 EUR – but only for a limited period of 99 hours. The offer runs until 3 pm CET on Friday, May 17 and is available only at the NI Online Shop.

IZotope, Inc, a research-driven audio technology company, has licensed multiple audio processing technologies for inclusion in the new Adobe® Premiere® Pro CC, the video production component of Adobe Creative Cloud. The industry-leading, cross-platform video editor now features a suite of audio effects including convolution reverb, vocal enhancer, mastering tools, single and multiband compressors, and other audio technologies.

"We're happy to continue our long-standing relationship with Adobe by making this collection of iZotope tools, currently available within Adobe Audition®, available to Adobe Premiere Pro CC users as well, " says Scott Simon, Business Development Manager for iZotope. "We're excited to help even more members of the creative media community enhance their audio."

Garrigus.com has announced the release of the SONAR X2 Power!
book (ISBN: 978-1-285-19894-1) by Scott R. Garrigus (author of the Cakewalk
SONAR and Sony Sound Forge Power book series). SONAR X2 Power! is the first
comprehensive guide to deal exclusively with Cakewalk's SONAR X2 MIDI and
digital audio sequencing application.

This new edition offers top-to-bottom detailed coverage of the SONAR X2
software (Producer, Studio, and Essential). The book's comprehensive
treatment begins with the basics and takes you from setup to final mix with
clear, step-by-step instructions and exercises.

Hollywood hotshot sound designers Larry Hopkins (The Following, Vampire Diaries, Revenge), Alan Howarth (Poltergeist, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Back To The Future II), and Mark Mangini (Die Hard, Star Trek, The Fifth Element) have pooled their considerable creative resources to create Hollywood Essentials.

As such, it features an attractive library of 30 earcatching kits with 480 instruments and 960 patterns ranging from field recordings made in the likes of auto body shops and dentists to ethereal sci-fi soundscapes and action sequence percussion ensembles fit for any adventurous blockbusting Hollywood motion picture!

IK Multimedia announces that iGrand Piano for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, and iLectric Piano for iPad is now Audiobus compatible, allowing players to use these apps with their other Audiobus-compatible music apps like AmpliTube and GarageBand.