Komplete Sound Design & Synthesis

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Komplete Sound Design & Synthesis

Komplete Sound Design & Synthesis | New York or Live Online

If you want to take a huge step to producing the top quality electronic music you love, our Native Instruments Komplete Sound Design & Synthesis course, taken from our Music Production Academy is for you!

Still tending to flick through presets until you get something that’s vaguely useable?  Have half-finished loops on your hard drive and you’re not sure where to go next?  Even if you are a more experienced producer of music in any genre, who would like to develop your electronic sound design skills, our lessons will do that, and a lot more.  Total class time is 36 hours where you can ask a question and bounce off of your instructor and fellow learners exactly when you’re feeling inspired, or…confused!  This is why people say that there is no substitute for music production courses in person!

No matter what your style, you will be shown how to craft your tunes, and build your sounds from the ground up. Our instructors are all electronic sound design specialists, and they will help you get the sounds you want out of your head and into your DAW, sharing the techniques and tricks they’ve built up from years of experience.  The course is structured so you can start a new track at the beginning and build it up as your understanding develops. By the end, if you have put in the work between sessions, your track should be finished, and ready to mix!  Crammed with production tips and industry insight from our instructors, we’ll inspire you to get your electronic music moving!

We understand what it’s like for many DJs who want to start making music – after years of DJing you know you can get the crowd going, and feel it’s time to be able to bring your own music into play, and move up the DJ pecking order.  The thought of producing top quality music can be daunting – especially if you don’t know how to play an instrument.  This course is constructed to give you all the knowledge you’ll need to start making quality productions – in just thirty six hours.

If you can’t make one of the sessions because you’re ill or are away, there’s no need to worry. We will do our best to engineer it so you can catch up on a cycle of your choice in the future.

Prerequisite: This is an intermediate course so all learners must have a good understanding of their DAW (Logic, Ableton, etc), as we won’t be covering specifics of any particular DAW. Taking any of our DAW courses first is more than sufficient.

Many learners these days prefer to use their own laptops on our courses for things like getting help customizing their set-up, and they have their project exactly as they left it in class to work on at home. So we made the course more affordable, but added a $75 supplement for learners who wish to hire an iMac loaded with software. Please ensure you book an iMac when you book your course if you need one. Controller keyboards, and headphones are provided for everyone if needed.

Overview

• An overview of all instruments in Komplete
• Komplete file management
• All about Reaktor and the endless possibilities before you've even learnt to program
• Drums in Battery and introduction to synthesis and envelopes

Subtractive Synthesis

• Oscillators, filters & LFOs
• Wave manipulation
• Envelopes and using them creatively
• How to make huge pads, basses and even drums using subtractive synthesis
• Advanced subtractive techniques

Wavetable Synthesis

• Synth side-chaining
• Wavetable synthesis – Internal routing, layering & tuning oscillators and making authentic sounds
• Envelope automation
• The wonderful world of wobbles and LFO. Worth knowing for all styles!

Granular Synthesis

• Arpeggiation, randomness and control technique
• Granular synthesis and wave shaping in Absynth
• How to get messed up, but usable sounds on brilliant freeware granular synthesizers available
• Arranging tips #1

FM +

• Attaining club level sub-bass frequencies in the mix
• Advanced arpeggiating
• Getting to grips with frequency modulation synthesis
• Genre production differences
• Components of a drop – How to ‘hit people on the head' in all styles
• Arranging tips #2

Advanced Sampling in Kontakt & Business Overview

• Advanced arpeggiating
• Resampling
• All about Kontakt and what sets it apart from other software samplers
• Remixing and vocal tips
• Business tips and Q&A

Our Testimonials

Instructors are well very versed in subject and willing to help each student individually. Learned a lot and feel more comfortable and knowledgeable of concepts, DAWs, and shaping sounds.

Jonelle Mazell

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

Great courses. Lots of relevant info and building blocks needed to make electronic music.

Tom Dordoy

I found the instructors very informed and informative! The course is perfect for beginners as it covers very basic things as well as going into lots of detail on other things. I thoroughly enjoyed the course 🙂

Katrina Mcinley

If you’re looking for in-depth knowledge about electronic music and how to create sounds using 3rd party software through Ableton or Logic then this course will definitely help you! Beginners can follow along but if you’re a more advanced producer, then this will definitely show you more advanced techniques to apply to your productions! Extremely happy I found and attended this course!

DJ WIED
Our Instructors

36 Hours | $1499 + $100 Registration if booked 14 days before start or $1799 + $200 Registration

Use the ‘CONNECT’ button below to request schedule information for our classes. One of our placement experts will follow up within a business day. For one-to-one lessons, see Sound Design & Synthesis Private Instruction, and connect with a specialist on that page.

Or get in touch and one of our placement experts will follow up with information and find a time for an assessment call to get you in to the most suitable program we have for you.

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