Music Production Course

What Will be Covered:

• Digital & Analog Audio Foundations

• Music Theory Foundations

• Sound Engineering Foundations

• Navigating Ableton Live’s interface

• Session View/Arrangement View

• Session automation

• Clip envelopes

• Track automation

• Programming original drum beats

• Sequencing musical parts

• MIDI and Key mapping

• Introduction to effects and routing

• Organizational techniques and practices

• The Drum Rack

• Recording original drum and percussion parts

• Modifying and shaping drum sounds

• Creating bass lines

• Creating melodies and leads

• Creating pads, textures, and keyboard parts

• Audio recording methods and techniques

• Resampling

• Arranging and exporting

• Mixing basics

• Building custom Drum Racks

• Layering drums for a custom sound

• Slice to MIDI

• Creating original bass sounds

• Creating original melody and lead sounds

• Creating original pads, textures, and keyboard sounds

• Creating ear candy: sweeps, risers, and sound effects

• Using dynamics processors as part of the composition process

• FM synthesis with Operator

• Creating custom patches with Sampler

• Physical modeling using Electric, Tension, and Collision

• “Breaking” physical models to make unimaginable sounds

• Combining instruments with Instrument Racks to make huge sounds

• Making sound effects with advanced synthesis, sampling, and vocoding

• How to best use original sounds in music creation

• The Audio Effect Rack

• Parallel processing and parallel compression

• Morphing effects

• Multi-band effects

• Advanced distortion

• Time-based effects

• Pitch and modulation effects

• Advanced EQ techniques

• Mastering setups and tools

• Making custom MIDI processors using the MIDI Effect Rack

• MIDI resampling

• Max for Live Instruments

• Max for Live Audio Effects

• Max for Live MIDI Effects

• Composing with MIDI controllers

• Remixing concepts and techniques

• Using video in Live