Summary
Introduction to Music Production gives students a thorough grounding in essential music production skills in Logic Pro 9. If you are serious about becoming a producer or sound engineer, then it is crucial to master these skills before you can progress further. This music production course is perfect for beginners, but even if you have been making music for some time, you will benefit from learning professional techniques from an experienced producer with major artist credits. Point Blank music production college is an Apple Approved Training Centre for Education.
Introduction to Logic DAW - Loading a song; file management
- The media library and importing Apple loops
- Audio Units, MIDI, arrangement grid
- Basic editing (copy, cut, loop, glue functions)
- Building a basic arrangement
Drum Programming - Loading instruments: Media Library and presets
- How to create a dance beat with Ultrabeat
- Basic MIDI editing in piano roll and event List
- Quantize, velocity and note length
- Step edit & manipulating sounds, kit & samples
Basic Music Theory - What are octaves, tones & semi-tones?
- What is a scale? Scale construction
- Basic chord construction & inversion
- Introduction to Logic’s environment
- Using Logic’s Arpegiatior & Chord Memorizer
Analog Synthesis - Oscillators, waveforms, filters and ADSR
- Software Instruments Pt 2: using the ES1
- Creating new sounds (bass & lead sounds)
- Controllers: volume, pitch bend & modulation
- Controlling software instruments parameters
Digital Audio - Sample rate, bit depth
- Media : audio bin, file management
- Recording mode in Logic
- Further audio editing in arrange window
- Editing using sample window
Sampling Part 1 - Sampling sources
- Sampling and the law
- Root key, mapping, tuning samples
- EXS24 multi sample program
- Saving program and samples
| Sampling Part 2 - ESX 24: individual outputs
- Synthesis and editing in EXS24
- Introduction to REX files and Recycle
- Flex time in Logic
- Time-stretching in Logic
The Mixing Desk - The mixing desk in music production
- Logic Pro mixing desk
- The role of EQ in music production
- How to use Logic EQ
- Frequency ranges in practice
An Introduction to FX Processors - Sound processors: an overview of Logic FXs
- FX used as inserts
- Sidechaining in Logic
- Setting FXs using sends & busses
- How to set up a rough mix in Logic
Structure and Arrangement - Analysing the structure of a song
- The role of each section
- Build a structure in Logic
- Editing techniques in Logic to build a structure
- Introduction to arrangement
Art of Mixing - Introduction to mixing
- Mixing inside in the box
- FX and routing
- Balancing and pan
- 1-2-1 sessions with your tutor
Finalising Projects & Evaluation - 1-2-1 sessions with your tutor
- Finalising projects
- Building your portfolio
- Evaluation and feedback
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