Sound Design & Synthesis

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Sound Design & Synthesis

Electronic Music Production Course | Miami

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.

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.

If you miss a class, or wish to comeback and repeat the course, you may do so free of charge. Our door is always open to former learners!

101

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.

201

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

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    Testimonials

    Both instructors were extremely knowledgeable, and quickly adapted to the areas which I needed the most work. There's also no substitute for being face to face with an instructor, to immediately address any logjams in the workflow.

    CJ DeLeo

    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

    The EMP course is a good time and super informative. I've been writing and producing music for the past year in Logic. There was so much I wanted to transcribe from my mind to my DAW, I just didn't fully know how. Fortunately, the EMP course changed that in just a few short weeks. Very exciting. Not to mention the Garnish LA folks are super cool.

    Patricia Seely

    If you're looking for in-depth knowledge about electronic music and how to create sounds using 3rd party software through Ableton or Logic then this course will definitely help you! Beginners can follow along but if you're a more advanced producer, then this will definitely show you more advanced techniques to apply to your productions! Extremely happy I found and attended this course!

    DJ WIED

    If you are trying to establish connections with local artists that have made a name for themselves in LA (the instructors) than this is a great program to join. You get to talk with them about their personal experiences and get a lot of really good inside tips about production from a professional point of view. Highly recommended not just to learn but to make industry connections.

    Zach Klein

    Garnish instructors do a great job at being in depth and detailed with everything so that no question or misunderstanding is left unsolved.

    Austen Greene

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