TRANCE: LOGIC PRO

Content

Origins, Legends & Making Beats

• Overview: The key elements in a Trance tune
• Sample editing and building kits in Ultrabeat
• Electronic drum sounds
• Programming beats & quantizing techniques

The Musical Elements

• Bass: sound design using ES1 & ES2
• Tricks for creating Trance basslines
• Creating lead sounds and riffs with ES1 & ES2
• Pads and string sounds

Effects & Textures

• Creative use of FX, working with vocals
• Sidechaining
• Creating downfillers/uprisers
• Noise and synth oscillators and automation

Arrangement and Mixdown

• Arrangement
• Breakdown and buildup examples
• Creating your mixdown
• Guide to using compression and EQ

Reviews

Jeff Landis Course rating: 10/10

Thank you so much for an unbelievable course!

Sergio Sánchez-Jara Course rating: 10/10

Hi enjoy this course a lot, and it is very usefull for me. I learn the steps of produce a track from begin to the end. Thanks!!!!

Johnny Bailo Course rating: 10/10

I really enjoyed the course!  The lessons are well thought out and the instructors are excellent. Highly recommend anyone who is interested in making music to go to point blank!

Bjoern Anders Course rating: 10/10

Its been a great experiance to be hand taken by such great producers to get a song real working and sound well. I even told a friend of mine about the course and he is in the next class for the trance course. That should be enough feedback from me. It was awesome. Many thanks to Mike and Mark. CU, Cheers, Björn

Andrew Joo Course rating: 10/10

i think by showing demonstration videos and being able to download and view others peoples projects have helped me alot. I already knew most of the fundamentals but still have learned alot from this course. Thank you

gregor cembala Course rating: 10/10

Especially thanks to Mike Koglin and Mark Pledger for outstanding performance!

Adil Hussain Course rating: 10/10

Mike and Mark are great Tutors and really helpful ! Also they are really prompt on getting questions answered..

Cristian Leonel Mammone Course rating: 10/10

Thanks Mike & Mark. Hope to continue improving :)

chris mundie Course rating: 10/10

Good course well put together. I know it may be difficult but maybe get the DVr's back asap so people can work on comments straight from the start of the week. Good tutors with great experience and knowledge also respect from students. Good to have different trance genres too as not everyone wants to make heavy uplifting tracks all the time. Many thanks, Chris  :)  

Raymond Burton Course rating: 10/10

I think this is amazing. I just want to keep learning more. I wish the course was longer... I don't know what else there would be to cover but I feel like I'm just getting warmed up and want to keep going. Thanks a lot guys. It's been VERY awesome and I appreciate your time each week doing my assessments. I know there are other things in the world you could be doing but I am grateful for the time you spent teaching me. Ray

Alberto Diehl Araujo Course rating: 10/10

I really would like to thank you  for the opportunity of doing this course and meet Mike Koglin. All feedbacks were really educational and detailed. All course notes are very easy to understand and the videos are very didatic. I like this course so much that I've enrolled myself on minimal techno and mixing dance music courses. Thank you all for the vision of teaching people around the world!!! An special thank to MIKE KOGLIN!!!!!!! Cheers, Alberto

Walter Lootens Course rating: 10/10

I really learned a lot from this course and I'm sure to enroll for other courses in the future!

Robert Tuisku Course rating: 10/10

Great class. i would love to see another class with Mike and Mark tutoring.. i would sign up in a heartbeat

Adam Gockel Course rating: 10/10

What an incredible course!  I am so grateful for all the guidance, direction and support!  This is exactly what I needed! Mike and Mark couldn't have been better instructors! Thanks again!

Andrew Chibwesha Course rating: 10/10

GREAT COURSE, AND SO MUCH LEARNT, I HOPE TO LEARN MORE FROM POINT BLANK IN THE FUTURE, ITS BEEN AN EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE!!

Ondrej Belansky Course rating: 10/10

Well, for me the whole course was really a kind surprise. From the communication with Pointblank Team to the help of tutors who were really a great support for me and of course amazing demonstrations of all elements of producing trance! Really appreciate how much effort you put to all of this! And of course i met great people form the whole world;) Keep up the great work! Ondrej Belansky (Ondrik)

Juan Ara Course rating: 9/10

Loved the course, it was really cool in every aspect, course notes, the videos and working with Mike and Mark was awesome! Their feedback is what really brings the best of us. You can read books, watch videos..and sure you'll learn and its obviously a great way of doing it, in fact you need that part in the learning process, but, working with a tutor is JUST THE BEST WAY TO LEARN! Mark always pointed in the right direction, corrected you if you were wrong and always gave enough freedom to make all decisions on your own. Just great

Andy Kitching Course rating: 10/10

Course was great, mike and mark were excellent tutors. It lived up to my expectations and I would recommend to any1. I look forward to studying with pointblank again! many thanks to the pointblank team and my tutors. cheers :)

Tyronne Scott Course rating: 10/10

Phenominal Course, i learnt what would probably be 3 years worth of sel-tutoring/experience in 4 weeks. Feedback was quick, help was ALWAYS there and i've already recommended it to 2 other people in South Africa who have actually signed up for the next class because they could'nt believe my progress in such a short space of time... thank you Mike & Mark (Trance Course)... i finally finished a full first track....!

Nick Piser Course rating: 10/10

This is the second course I've finished here at Point Blank and I have to say that this is, by far, the most organized and well executed online school I've ever attended.  All the course notes cover everything you could ever expect or want, and the tutors always know exactly what they're doing and are extremely helpful.  In just four weeks, I can honestly say that my abilities in electronic music production have tripled from what they were a month ago.  Thank you Mike Koglin, Mark Pledger, and everyone else at Point Blank.  I really appreciate everything.

stephen Ferrell Course rating: 10/10

This course has been quality! before this module i already had a foundation degree in music production and had just graduated with a Bmus (hons) in popular music. Although i did learn stuff from those courses. In terms of the electronic dance music i really want to make i feel i have learned more in the past four weeks then i have in the last four years! im so enthusiastic about making music again, mike and mark were amazing where else can you get the opportunity to work with professionals who have been there and done it at the highest level and still are! i've recommended point blank to several other people already and have also just enrolled on another course! thank you

Zaakir Mia Course rating: 10/10

the course was excellent in terms of the specific nature of the material. this is the only course specialising in trance using Logic. everything that was taught was very relevant to the genre. well done and thank you for making these valuable lessons available to us.

Angelina Liu Course rating: 10/10

I think Mike and Mark are one of the greatest tutors, they are very patient and coherent with DVRs every week. They are quick at answering forum questions and are always willing to share their knowledge. That makes a really top notch teacher to me! I've enjoyed their company, you really feel you get 1-1 advice from them and they are even alright with us making really dumb mistakes. I had a great ride in this 4 weeks, can't wait to progress further. :o)

Danny Gibas Course rating: 10/10

I learned more about trance music composition in the past 4 weeks in this course than I had in a year of self learing. Mike is amazingly knowledgeable, and the instructions he provided in the masterclasses and the DVRs was worth far more than the cost of the tuition. I can't recommend this course enough for anyone interested in learning about composing trance and dance music in general. Electronic Music Composition (EMC) starts this week, and after the experiece with the Logic Trance course, I cant wait to get started!