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Electronic Music Production Specialization
Berklee

Electronic Music Production Specialization

Create Musical Compositions With Your Computer. Learn the tools and techniques to create professional sounding music.

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Erin Barra
Rishabh Rajan
Loudon Stearns

Instructors: Erin Barra

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What you'll learn

  • The nature of sound and how natural sound is transformed into an electronic signal that we can record

  • How to record, edit, and mix live instruments and MIDI in Ableton Live

  • How to create custom sounds using a synthesizer and how to integrate those custom sounds for your musical compositions

  • How to record, edit, mix, and add effects to vocal tracks for your electronic music productions

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Specialization - 4 course series

The Technology of Music Production

Course 117 hours4.8 (1,027 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Discuss the nature of sound, how it travels, and its properties

  • Set up your Digital Audio Workstation, record audio, and utilize basic audio editing techniques such as trimming, fades, and merging

  • Define the different categories of effects: Dynamic Effects, Delay Effects, and Filter Effects and use them effectively in a recording project

  • Discuss the role filters play in music synthesis and define how they effect the input signal

Skills you'll gain

Category: Audio Editing
Category: Music
Category: Sound Design
Category: Audio Recording
Category: Audio Production

Introduction to Ableton Live

Course 213 hours4.8 (1,098 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Navigate Ableton Live

  • Program MIDI drums and instruments

  • Record and edit audio, including working with preexisting audio loops

  • Create a piece of music using MIDI and audio within Ableton Live

Skills you'll gain

Category: MIDI programming
Category: File Management
Category: Audio Recording
Category: Ableton
Category: Music Making

Creating Sounds for Electronic Music

Course 312 hours4.7 (257 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Create custom synthesizer patches

  • Incorporate your custom patches into your electronic music

  • Improve your music through editing.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Sound Design
Category: Create custom synthesizer patches
Category: Create an electronic composition
Category: Create custom patches in Strobe 2
Category: Manipulate preset patches

Electronic Music Performance Techniques

Course 46 hours4.2 (27 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Music Arrangement
Category: Music
Category: Electronic Digital Instrument
Category: Performance Technique
Category: Live Looping

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Erin Barra
Berklee
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