Electronic Music Production

This course combines the best bits of the official Apple Logic 101 course with practical arrangement and production techniques taken from our Music Production Diploma.

The inclusion of Native Instrument's plugins such as Massive, Battery, Kontakt, and others make this course particularly useful to anyone interested in producing electronic music with Logic Pro.

Electronic? The techniques covered in this course can easily be applied to all styles of music, but in terms of sound, our focus will be all kinds of electronic music. This means experimental and glitch music but also house, techno, progressive, trance, dubstep, psytrance and any other form of dance music.

All these genres have one thing in common: the choice of sounds (the sound quality) is almost more important than the notes you play. So while there are many other places where you can learn Logic, here we look specifically at how to use Logic to produce proper tracks in your favourite style.

Summer only!
This course is four weeks long, and it runs only in July and August.

You don't need to own a computer or have any knowledge of music theory at this stage.
The only requirement is to have a sincere interest in music, in the sense of having music ideas and a list of favourite artists.

Equipment used
Each student is allocated an iMac (latest model) with Logic Studio and Native Instruments Komplete installed, a midi keyboard and audio interface. Students wishing to work on their own laptops are welcome to bring them to the class.

Course outcome At the end of the course you will have produced a track (a remix of a commercial track or one original production) using Logic Pro 8, in combination with additional samples and plugins. You will have a good understanding of programming drums, bass, editing vocals, sampling bits from other records and creating your own unique sounds.
While there is no limit to how much more you can study and learn, we expect that you will be already able to start and finish your own productions, creating CDs or mp3 for everyone to hear.

Schedule: Monday to Friday - 4 hours per day
Three hours per day with a tutor plus one hour of additional practice.
Depending on which class you choose the lectures start at 10.30 in the morning or 3.30 in the afternoon.