Sound Design & Synthesis Class | New York
Subtractive Synthesis
- →Waveforms and harmonics, the sine
- →Ableton's Analog: oscillators
- →LFO, polyphony, unison and glide
- →Pulse width modulation and serial filtering
- →Drift: subtractive, done properly
FM Synthesis
- →Intro to FM
- →Ableton's FM synth: an Operator overview
- →Algorithms and filter
- →Making FM drum sounds
Wavetable Synthesis
- →Wavetable categories
- →Auditioning wavetables using an envelope
- →Oscillator effects
- →Multiple filters with different routings
Physical Modeling
- →Physical modeling synthesis
- →Collision and Corpus: sound design
- →Tension
- →Filter, LFO FX and the modulation matrix
Waveshaping and Saturation
- →Waveshaping with Roar: saturation and distortion
Sampling and Sampler
- →Mapping key and velocity zones, looping
- →Filter, drive and shaper
- →AUX envelope and LFOs
- →Multisampling with Sampler
- →Creating the ultimate drum rack
Granular
- →Creative time stretching
- →Beat mode, warping using quantized values
- →Grain Delay
- →Granular synthesis with Granulator III
- →Filter, modulators and capture
Additive Synthesis
- →Additive synthesis in Operator
Creative Audio Effects
- →Shifter
- →Resonators
- →PitchLoop89
- →Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time
- →Hybrid Reverb
Max for Live, and Under the Hood
- →M4L modulators
- →M4L drum synths
- →The Max for Live utilities worth knowing
- →What Live does and does not change
- →Where MIDI timing error comes from
- →Working with video
In our students' words.
“You simply learn how to make music, creating sounds from the ground up instead of using presets and loops. That pushes the quality of production a lot and makes it more unique.”
Daniel Conen (Get Physical)
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Yes. Every session runs in person in New York and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you.
No. The course opens at waveforms and harmonics and builds from there, so it works whether you are starting out or filling gaps. You should already know your way around Live itself - recording, arranging and basic editing.
36 hours. Tuition is $1,799 when you book 14 or more days ahead, or $2,099 after that, plus a $200 registration fee.
Yes - bring your own laptop with Live installed. Live Suite covers every device in the scheme of work, including Sampler, Collision, Tension, Roar and the Max for Live instruments; Standard covers much of the synthesis work but not all of those devices. Ask us if you are unsure which you have.
Yes - the 360° Garnish Music Academy covers production, sound design, mixing and the music business across a full programme. Ask admissions about the next cohort.
Your own basses, leads, pads, drums and textures, built from a blank oscillator or a raw sample rather than chosen from a preset list - plus the racks and chains to reuse them in your own projects.
36 hours - $1,799 (14+ days out) / $2,099 otherwise, + $200 registration
Ready when you are.
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