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Course 13: Sound Design Course - Advanced

 Take your music production skills to the next level. Expert producer Danny J Lewis shows you how to reproduce contemporary sounds or create your own unique style. Whether you are producing tracks for the dancefloor or designing sound for multimedia, this course will reveal music production secrets, professional tricks and techniques.

 

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Course materials include:

Up to 100 Quicktime video tutorials

Over 300 pages of course notes

350MB of 24bit audio samples

Personalised video feedback on your music

Weekly webchat with a pro producer

Student forum - post your questions & discussion topics

 


Sound Design Course Contents

 

Week 1: What is Sound Design?

  • The History of film sound
  • Foley: creating sounds for films from real sounds
  • Forbidden Planet: the first synthesised soundtrack
  • BBC Radiophonic Workshop
  • Icons of sound design
  • The tools used for sound design
Week 2: Introduction to Reaktor
  • Standalone mode
  • A tour of the interface
  • Ensembles, Instruments, Macros and Modules
  • Loading Snapshots
  • Recorderbox - saving the audio to a wav file
  • Reaktor as a virtual instrument/effect in Cubase, Logic and Ableton
Week 3: Reaktor Ensemble Workshop
  • Building a small library of introductory Ensembles
  • Tape Deck
  • Vintage Compressor
  • Custom effect construction
  • Stereo & Band Filter
  • Wind machine
Week 4: Building an Analogue Synth in Reaktor
  • Building an analog synth
  • Oscillators
  • Filters
  • Envelopes
  • Modulation
Week 5: Creating Presets for your Analogue Synth
  • Lead sounds
  • Bass sounds
  • Stab/ chord Sounds
  • Pad/ string Sounds
  • Sound effects
Week 6: Foley
  • A guide to equipment for recording
  • Creating your own FX library
  • Download a free 318MB Library of 24bit Audio to use in exercises
  • Editing audio
  • Manipulating audio
  • Foley exercises using a variety of audio processes
Week 7: Creative Sampling in Kontakt
  • Creative sampling: an introduction
  • Kontakt interface
  • Building instruments
  • Mapping editor
  • Wave editor
  • Script editor
  • Adding modulation
Week 8: Kontakt Modulation Workshop
  • Zone envelopes
  • Gating
  • Filtering
  • Multiple processing: Pitch shift, Lofi and effect send
  • DBD
  • LFO's
Week 9: Adventures in Pitch and Time
  • Time Machine: elastic audio in Kontakt. Real-time timestretching
  • Tempo synchronisation
  • Legato mode and how to use it
  • Tone Machine: playing musical phrases with drumloops
  • Creating unique instruments
Week 10: Rhythm Science
  • Kontakt's Beat Machine
  • Using groups to create unique drum sounds
  • Creating a complete 'Electronic' drum kit from just two short samples
  • Randomstepshifting in Reaktor
Week 11: Recreating sounds from Film
  • Exploring famous sonic textures
  • Analysing sounds and reverse engineering them
  • Recreating famous movie sounds
  • A sonic texture from "Star Wars"
  • A Sonic Texture from "Predator"
  • A Sonic Texture from "War of the Worlds"
Week 12: Final Project (add your sounds to the movie) & Test
  • We provide the short movie, you create sounds for key moments
  • How to import video into Cubase, Logic and Ableton
  • Create a mixture of electronic and foley sounds
  • You compose the music
  • Final Test
 

Course Details:

 

Weeks: 12

Price: £595


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Available Dates:

  • 12th Jan 09
  • 6th Apr 09
  • 6th Jul 09
  • 28th Sep 09

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Student feedback:

 

"From day one, I was studying alongside a record producer with credits on an array of commercial recordings. The tutor provided tailored feedback each week."

(John Burns - UK)