Sound Design & Synthesis Class | Miami
Electronic Music Production Course
If you want to take the next step to achieving your goals as an electronic music producer, our Electronic Music Production course is for you! With no more than 8 students per class, and 36 hours of class time, you will have the freedom to ask our instructors the questions you need answering while learning their techniques and tricks. This course will help you obtain the sounds from your head and transform them into your DAW.
Our Miami classes for the Sound Design & Synthesis Class are small and hands-on, taught at our studio by producers active in the city's electronic, Latin and hip-hop scenes. If you would rather learn from home, the same sessions run live online with the same instructors and the same class size, using our specialist music collaboration software, Muse. Discover qualities that distinguish us, here.
Overview
- →Advanced run-through of industry leading soft synths.
- →Drum programming in-depth.
- →A complete understanding of tones, processing, resampling and different effects.
- →Sound choice and genre production.
- →Arrangement techniques and components that create all parts of a song.
- →Course collaboration project – learning to work with other producers!
- →Business tips and Q&A.
Subtractive & Wavetable Synthesis
- →Understanding Oscillators, Filters, Wavetables, Envelopes & LFOs.
- →Achieving analog tones with digital soft synths of today.
- →Creating pads, basses and drums using subtractive synthesis.
- →Arpeggiating and advanced subtractive techniques.
- →Synth side-chaining, internal routing, layering & tuning oscillators.
- →Modulation and automation.
FM
- →Attaining club level sub-bass frequencies in your mixes.
- →Understanding the results of different tones and frequencies through the world of modulation.
Granular Synthesis
- →Randomness & control.
- →Achieving distinctive sounds by looping cycles of audio.
- →FX and rising techniques.
Track Mentoring Sessions
- →One to one mentoring and guidance on your masterpiece
Prerequisite: This is an intermediate to advanced course so learners must have a good understanding of their DAW. We encourage less experienced learners to attend one of our DAW courses first. With an added supplement of $75, students may use our iMac workstations that are provided in class if you do not own the listed software in the class curriculum overview. Controller keyboards, headphones and audio interfaces are always provided for everyone when needed.
Student reviews.
“The course throughly covers the fundamentals of synthesis and has helped me understand concepts that go beyond the everyday Youtube tutorial. The course has made Youtube tutorials and other concepts of sound design easily understood.”
Daniel Tran
Instructors
Common questions, answered.
No more than 8 students.
Subtractive and wavetable synthesis, FM synthesis for sub-bass, and granular synthesis.
Yes - one-to-one track mentoring sessions are included.
No - iMac workstations with everything installed are available for a $75 supplement if you don't have it yourself.
No - it's intermediate to advanced, so you should already have a good understanding of your DAW. Take one of our DAW courses first if you're not there yet.
Both are free of charge - our door stays open to former learners.
36 hours - $1,499 + $100 registration (14+ days out) / $1,799 + $200 otherwise
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Mapping Key and Velocity Zones in Sampler, Looping
How to map key zones and velocity zones in Ableton's Sampler, and how its sustain and release loops work - from the Ableton Advanced course notes.
Read →Granular: Granular Synthesis with Granulator III
Granulator Ill is the latest evolution of Robert Henke’s legendary granular sampler, built with a strong focus on modulation and expression.
Read →FM: Making FM Drum Sounds
FM synthesis can be a powerful tool for creating drum sounds that are unique and dynamic. Here are some general tips to help you create your own FM drum…
Read →Hybrid Reverb
Convolution and algorithmic reverb in one device, blended. Real spaces for the early reflections, a synthetic tail behind them - and why that combination sounds better than either alone.
Read →Clip Envelopes as LFOs
The most underused feature in Live. Unlink a clip envelope from its clip and it becomes a free-running modulator of any length - long evolving loops out of short ones, rhythm patterns imposed on samples.
Read →Wave: Wavetable Categories
Unlike what we’ve seen in Analog that only uses a few basic waveforms as a source, Wavetable has two special type oscillators that contain hundreds of…
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