Learner Reviews & Feedback for Creating Sounds for Electronic Music by Berklee College of Music
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I really like this course. It was very useful to me and allowed me to improve my music making.I have come to know a lot more about using a synthesizer.Thank you all teachers for creating this course.
I was pleased with this course. Loudon looked a lot Younger. At first I was critical of the synth (Strobe 2) and of the Course Style But I was impressed by Other Students. Thanks Loudon - Le
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By Yu L S
•This is a really good course which very good for beginner.
By Branislav S
•Wonderful course giving really nice ideas about synthesis
By Frijo F C
•Its an huge opportunity for an artist who wants to grow.
By Jaehwi C
•The best electronic music course for beginner!
By Gabriel C F
•Now I totally understand how to use any Synth.
By Ciro D V
•OMG I GOT A SYNTH (FOR 3 MONTHS)
By Jan
•great! thank for new experience
By Yann C
•Excellent ! Thank you Loudon !
By Daniel H E
•I love this course!!
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•Nice stuff teached.
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•Amazing Professor!
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•Excellent content
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•It´s magnificent!
By Alexander M
•Excellent course!
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•Thanks Professor.
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•A great course...
By Gabriel M P
•Amazing!!!!
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•Muy bueno
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•the best!
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•Great!
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By Barend
•Nice course! The teaching is excellent (5 stars), and I have learned a lot in this course. It is short but intensive.
I initially planned to give only 2 or 3 stars because of several reasons, described below. But in the end I like the course a lot so I don't want to go too low.
Reasons are:
1) Strobe, the software synth required in the course, was hardly usable (crashing always in 64 bit mode, sometimes in 32 bit mode). Several applicants stopped the course because of this. However this was (at least for me) solved during the course (I can use it now without any problems). So that is great (but a bit late).
2) The course is (as of March 2016) new and still contains many errors. The videos, as said, are excellent. But the assignments are often wrong and not accurate (actually 4 out of 4 contain errors...). In the first assignment you are asked to list favorites in 14 categories, but there are only 13. So you can never get the full points, or the reviewers should be flexible. In many of the following assignments the naming of the to be uploaded files is unclear or erroneous. It is important to fix that because reviewers are explicitly asked if the names are correct. In the third assignment it is worse, there is no room for an upload of the MP3, the final product of your whole week work which should be judged. One error was fixed during the course but in a hasty way, the most important errors are still there. Anyway, that will hopefully be fixed before the next cycle starts.
3) The course is really targetted to House (or at least Dance) music. All assignments should follow a predescribed form, while I (as an amateur classical pianist) would like to create pieces not following that form, but still using synth sounds. But if you do that, you get less points or do not pass the assignments. So that is too strict (in my opinion).
4) Strobe2 is central in the course. It is mainly educating for Strobe2. I tried after the course to apply the knowlegde to other synth plugins, which is possible but only in a limited way. You really learn how to do it in Strobe2, and there is no education for other synth plugins. Many concepts cannot easily be transferred. That is different from Loudon's excellent course Music Production, which was designed to be software independent.
So I have several objections to the course. But some of them can be fixed, and it was still a great course, I learned a lot and I enjoyed it, and I give it 4 stars.
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