Electronic Sound Art Class | New York
Getting Started with Arturia
- →Installing and authorising your free year of Arturia software
- →Where the Arturia instruments sit inside your own DAW
- →The interface and the presets - and how to stop browsing and start building
Sound Design Foundations
- →Oscillators, filters, envelopes and LFOs across the Arturia collection
- →Turning a preset into something that is yours
- →Layering and texture - depth without mud
Beats and Rhythm
- →Drum design and percussion programming
- →Groove, swing and movement
- →Building a rhythm bed that suits the genre
Bass
- →Deep, resonant basslines, and how they are built
- →Sub against mid-bass, and keeping the low end mono
- →Making a bass sit under the rest of the mix
Genre Workshops
- →House and Tech-House grooves
- →Techno - pulse, repetition and tension
- →EDM - builds, drops and energy
- →Bass music textures
Finishing
- →Arranging your sounds into a finished track
- →Workflow between Arturia and your DAW
- →Where to take it next
In our students' words.
“This course is for anyone that wants to learn any style of production. The teachers are extremely versatile and can help you with all styles of electronic music.”
Zach Sternberg
Before you enrol.
Both. Every session runs in person in New York and live online at the same time.
Yes - a full year of Arturia software, free.
36 hours. Tuition is $1,799 when you book 14 or more days ahead, or $2,099 after that, plus a $200 registration fee.
Arturia's sound design tools, used inside your own DAW rather than a studio machine.
Yes - the 360° Garnish Music Academy. Ask admissions about the next cohort.
No - the course works whether you have just found your way around a DAW or have been producing for years; what changes is how far you push the sound design.
36 hours - $1,799 (14+ days out) / $2,099 otherwise, + $200 registration
Ready when you are.
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