Electronic Dance Music Production Course - Fall / Winter Session
Schedule
Tue Oct 08 2024 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2840 rue hochelaga, Montréal, Québec, Canada | Montreal, QC
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Teacher: VIRTUAL LIGHT
Electronic Dance Music Course
Full program: 60 Hours
IN PERSON OR ONLINE (all course will be rec.)
Every Tuesday - October 8th until March 4th
14h till 17h
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Learn to cook electronic music, from scratch and take your beats from the computer to the dance floor with this comprehensive course designed to unleash your creativity and make sound systems rumble. We will deep dive into Xfer's Serum and unveil the secret's of sound design used by top producers across many electronic dance music styles!!
Adapted for students ranged from NOVICE to INTERMEDIATE, our goal is to take your productions to the next level and ready to be played out by DJs in clubs and festivals.
This program is for any DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) such as Ableton, Reaper, Studio One, Bigwig, Logic Pro, FL Studio etc, however we will be mostly focused on XFer’s Serum for sound design along with some other VST / AudioUnit or stock plugins.
‼️We kindly ask beginner students to at MINIMUM have a basic understanding of your DAW program and how to use its basic functions.
There will be homework assignments between classes as well as in class reviews + the possibility of 1 on 1 sessions with the instructors.
SYLLABUS :
1: Introduction - Overview of plugins (EQ, Compressor, Imager, Saturation Etc)
2: Sound Design 101 - Synthesizer Foundations with Serum
3: Kick Drum synthesis and theory
4: Bass Synthesis and theory
5: Sequencing and designing leads / Acid / Arps / Plucks
6: Designing pads / Atmospheres / Ambience
7: Wavetable Creation + Using sampler in Serum
8: Advanced Serum tricks
9: Beat Programming 101
10: Using loops and samples (Warping + Flex Time Etc)
11: Automation and macros
12: Transition FX / Crashes / Impacts / Booms
13: Audio Editing / Creative time stretching / Reverse FX / Resampling
14: Arrangement Part 1 - Anatomy Of A Track
15: Arrangement Part 2 - Build Ups and Drops
16: Arrangement Part 3 - Intros and Outros
17: Glitching / Buffer FX / Granular
18: Mixing 101 - Using analyzers / balancing frequencies / compression
19: Preparing a track for the dance floor + Final mastering
20: Final Summary and review of students work
Hardware required:
▪️ Laptop / PC at home (Online Students)
▪️ Pro Audio Headphones (In Class or At Home)
Recommended but NOT required:
▪️ Studio Monitors (At Home)
▪️ Midi Keyboard + Controller
▪️ Microphone
▪️ Pro Audio Soundcard
Most plugins can be found in your DAW however some will be required such as:
▪️ Synthesizers: Xfer’s Serum
▪️ Xfer’s LFO Tool / Cable guys - Volume Shaper
▪️ Voxengo SPAN (Analyzer)
▪️ Polyverse - Wider or Izotope Imager (or any other imager of choice)
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About your teacher:
Vincent AKA Virtual Light has been producing for almost 25 years, having released countless tracks and toured the world many times over with his music. He is most recognized for his psytrance productions however sometimes makes techno, breakbeats, chill out / downtempo and other experimental concoctions.
He has his early roots in music as a guitarist, having played in rock and blues bands as a teenager, but soon discovered electronic music after attending some rave parties. He almost immediately began learning how to produce with Impulse Tracker, then soon later Fruity Loops, Reason and Cubase.
He has since developed into a top shelf sound designer, having made some of the most used preset banks in the psytrance scene, notably the Source Code series and XenoFreqs Wavetable Bank release by Futurephonic.
Check it here
https://www.futurephonic.co.uk/collections/virtual-light
PRIVATE LESSONS ALSO AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST!
Virtual Light Links:
SoundCloud:
https://soundcloud.com/virtual-light
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/virtuallight23/
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Where is it happening?
2840 rue hochelaga, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2840 Rue Hochelaga, Montréal, QC H2K 1K5, Canada,Montreal, QuebecEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
