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.
InquireHow a DJ Booth Is Wired, and How to Beatmatch by Ear
Wire CDJ-3000s and a DJM mixer with PRO DJ LINK, beatmatch with the screens covered, read phrases in the waveform, and know exactly where to mix in and out.
Read →Mixing Across Genres: Hard Cuts, Double Drops and Acapellas
How house, techno, drum & bass, hip-hop and disco each want to be mixed, plus clean hard cuts, swapping drops on the downbeat, and layering acapellas in key.
Read →Best Midi Controllers for Producers on the Move
The excuse of being ‘stuck in the studio’ can be a poor one. For electronic music producers and DJs, portability is key to a successful career. For example do you remember the dancefloor killer ‘Groovejet’ by Spiller featuring Sophie Ellis Bextor? Well not only did it go to number one in 4 countries selling 600k in the UK alone, but also the track name comes from the fact the instrumental was made on a plane!
Read →How to Set Up rekordbox and Take Your First Mix to the CDJs
Where DJs buy music, setting up rekordbox, fixing beat grids, the Camelot wheel, exporting to USB, and every control on a CDJ-3000 and a DJM mixer.
Read →Hot Cues, Memory Cues and Active Loops: A Clean Mix on CDJs
Set hot cues, memory cues and active loops in rekordbox, format a USB any CDJ reads, set trim by the meters, and when to use quantize and master tempo.
Read →Back Up Your rekordbox Library, and Practise With One Hand
How to back up and restore a rekordbox library, keep it findable with My Tag and intelligent playlists, and the one-handed drills that fix your hand order.
Read →