Overview
Take your music production skills to the next level on Point Blank's Native Instruments: Sound Design course. Whether you are producing tracks for the dancefloor or designing sound for multimedia, this creative sound design module is a music production course that will give you the knowledge to reproduce contemporary sounds whilst developing your own unique style. At the end of the course you will produce a completed track using the Production and Sound Design techniques taught throughout the course. Featuring Native Instruments Kontakt and Reaktor, you'll upload your music for DVR™- expert analysis and video feedback on your work from a multi media professional. And with Point Blank pitching your work to our ad agency partners, this course gets you working in the music industry.
Includes over 130 quality videos/ frequent DVR™ (1-2-1 video feedback)/ 12 hours live masterclasses /1 year access/ over 240 pages of course notes/ 24/7 access to forum/ exclusive audio resources to download. Optional: sign your track to Point Blank Music distributed by iTunes, beatport, Juno Download and Amazon.
Content
Week 1: What is Sound Design?
- Building a sample library: copyright issues
- Basics of 'sound': theory on frequencies
- Filters and EQ: Creating filter sweep FX
- Creating riser/noise sound FX
Week 2: Samples and Effects
- Exploring phaser, reverb and delay
- Editing, exporting and organising your files
- Layering samples
- Creative gating
Week 3: Creative Sampling in Kontakt
- How to navigate the Kontakt interface
- Building instruments
- Mapping, wave and script editors.
Week 4: Kontakt Modulation Workshop
- Zone envelopes, gating, LFO & filtering
- Multiple processing: pitch shift, lo fi and FX send
- DBD
Week 5: Adventures in Pitch and Time
- Time Machine: real-time timestretching
- Tempo synchronisation & legato mode
- Tone Machine: musical phrases with drumloops
Week 6: Rhythm and Sound Science
- Kontakt's Beat Machine
- Using groups to create unique drum sounds
- Synthesis using raw sampled waveforms
- Create 'electronic' drum kit from two short samples
Week 7: Introduction to Reaktor
- Ensembles, Instruments, Macros and Modules
- Recorderbox: saving the audio to a wav file
- Random Stepshifter
- Exploring Massive, Vectory and Travelizer
Week 8: Reaktor Ensemble Workshop
- Reaktor file types: Instrument, Macro and Module
- Building a library of introductory ensembles
- Tape Deck, Vintage Compressor
- Wind machine
Week 9: Building an Analogue Synth in Reaktor
- Building an analog synth
- Oscillators, filters & envelopes
- Creative filter modulation
Week 10: Presets for the Analogue Synth
- How to create lead, bass, stab and pad sounds
- Sound effects
- Creating your own FX library
Week 11: Reaktor Hacking and Patching
- Using Reaktor as an FX device
- Insert/send and return configuration
- Compression, custom FX and vocoders
Week 12: Sound Design Final Project
- Create your final project
- Final test
Featured Student - Paula Fairfield (Sound Designer, 'Lost')
"I am always looking for new tricks to make my designs fresh and I am also a bit of a tech-head so I am curious to try new things. The Point Blank courses definitely put me way outside my comfort zone... and thats a good thing!"
