Electronic Music Production Specialization

Electronic Music Production Specialization

Name: Electronic Music Production
Rating: 4.777208706786172 (540 reviews)

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

Instructors: Erin Barra

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

In the Electronic Music Production specialization, you will learn the tricks of the trade to create high-quality, professional sounding music. You’ll begin by learning about the nature of sound and how a signal flows through a home studio setup. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create your own custom musical sounds through music synthesis. You’ll explore how to record MIDI and real instruments into the flexible and agile Digital Audio Workstation, Ableton Live. You’ll also learn to professionally record, produce, edit, and mix a vocal track with the Grammy-winning producer, Prince Charles Alexander.

Applied Learning Project

In the first course of this specialization, The Technology of Music Production, you will be asked to create a presentation on a topic of your choice. Next, you will produce and record original music using real instruments, MIDI, custom synth patches, and effects such as equalization, compression, and reverb.

The Technology of Music Production

Course 117 hours4.8 (1,055 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

Introduction to Ableton Live

Course 213 hours4.8 (1,104 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

Creating Sounds for Electronic Music

Course 312 hours4.7 (261 ratings)

What you'll learn

Create custom synthesizer patches
Incorporate your custom patches into your electronic music
Improve your music through editing.

Electronic Music Performance Techniques

Course 46 hours4.2 (29 ratings)

What you'll learn

From the Moog analog synthesizers in the 1960s to the contemporary usage of computers, performance controllers, and mobile devices, Electronic Digital Instruments (EDIs) have long been capable of offering artists a new range of musical expression. In this one-of-a-kind course, you’ll learn the essential skills you need to perform on an EDI.

Your instructor is EDI musician and Berklee College of Music associate professor Rishabh Rajan. He will take you through the basics of EDI performance and give you pointers on how to build an arrangement on your EDI. Whether you have just ordered your first pad-controller or have already been experimenting with electronic music, you’ll learn the basics of performing and arranging on the EDI. You will start by building drum beats and reading drum notation. Then you will create bass lines and harmonic accompaniment. Finally, you will learn how to live loop all of these elements and perform an arrangement for a live audience.