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Session 01. First approaches.
- The idea and the adjetives
- Preparing a project
- Starting a project and parts of a track
- The musical productor role
Session 02. Recordings instruments & levels.
- Preamps
- Mono and stereo
- Correct level for recording
- Correct level for VST
Session 03. Drum machines.
- TR909, TR808 and Lindrum
- Making patterns
- The 4/4
- Kick, snare, toms, clap, hats
- 808 Bass
- Ghost notes
- Swing, Groove and Roll
- What is a secondary percussion?
- Kinds of percussion
- How to use a secondary percussion
- Percussion loops
- Synthetic percussions
- Real percussions
Session 05. Kind of Synthesis.
- Sustractive
- Aditive
- FM
- Linear Arithmetic
- Approaches and uses
Session 06. Kind of Synthesis 2.
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- Wavetable
- Sampling
- Granular
- Physicall Modeling
Session 07. Sound Synthesis.
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- The envelope
- The oscilators
- The LFO
- The filter
- The VCA
- Creating and developing sounds
Session 08. Basic Harmony.
- What ́s harmony and how to use it
- Mayor and minor scale
- The modes
- Electronic music and harmony
- The minimalism working in the current styles
- Bass sounds frequency range
- The Bass weight
- How to create a Bass
- Relation between bass & sine waves
- Creating a SubBass
- Distinction between Bass & SubBass
- Top extension Basses
- The 303
- Yamaha DX Solid Bass & Lately Bass
- Minimoog
- The tonal note in Bass
- The note length importance
- SubBass as a support
- Dodecaphonic sequences with basses
- Invert and Reverse sequences
- 4/4 3/4 7/4
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- Melodies into the electronic music
- Lead synth frecuencies
- Open & Close sequences
- Tonality
- Classic sounds
- Creating sequences
- 3/4, 4/4 and 7/4
Session 11. Secondary synths.
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- What is a secondary synth?
- Complete areas
- Upper and lower octave
- Making layers
Session 12. Modular synths.
- The Oscillator (VCO)
- The Envelope (ADSR)
- The Amplitude manager (VCA)
- The Gate
- The Pitch/Note (V/Oct)
- Differences between Gate & Trigger
- The Scope
- Polyphony
- The importance of something simple
- Working with various oscillators
- Differences between different oscillators
- Modulations between oscillators
- The FM Input
- The Filters
- Expanding the timbre
- LFO´s
- The Sequencer
- How to connect the sequencer to the oscillators
- How to connect the clock to the sequencer
- Connecting the gate between Envelope & Sequencer
- Using rows to modulate others parameters
- Effects
- Differences between a modular and a standard synth
Session 13. Pads and drone.
- The String behavior
- The String harmonics
- String size, Pitch and weight
- Solina Strings
- Real strings emulation
- Combining different strings
- Strings Articulations
- Legato
- Portato
- Staccato
- Pizzicato
- Combining different articulations
- Strings adjectives and types of synthesis
- Strings & Octave range
- Strings Layers & octaves distribution
- Managing the strings masking problems
- Applying the invisible side-chain
- Stereo problems with pads & strings
- Fixing pad stereo problems
- Distributing pads along the stereo field
- Distributing pads considering the directionality
- Drones
- Spreading drone sounds
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- Using samples
- Types of samples
- Recording samples
- Pitch-shifting
- Problems with samples
- Problems that usually happen using samples libraries
Session 15. Emotions linked to instrumens.
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- Electronic instruments vs real instruments
- Texture and rhythm
- Frequencies and emotions
- Tones
- Timbre
- Colors
- Sensations
- Kinds of EQ
- Analog & digital
- Choosing and using
- Essential compressor controls
- Ratio
- Attack
- Release
- Threshold
- Gain Out
- The lack of bass with compressors
- Types of compressors
- Tube or Vari-Mu Compressor
- Digital Compressors & Bass Sounds
- Analog compressor & Bass Sounds
- The harmonic content
- Opto-compressor
- Distortion & Saturation Units
- Hard Compression
- Print more Low End w/ Compressors
- Series Compression
- Delays
- Spreading the sound with delays
- Filters on Delays
- Sync Delays
- Reverb
- Insert Reverb
- Send/Return Reverb
- Harmonizer
- Flanger
- Phaser
Session 19. Sound Design.
- Envelope Layering
- Layering Loudness
- Managing envelope parts
- Polarity match
- Pitch/Tone matching
- Fade In Fade Out
- Setting the layers volume
- Rendering the result
- Problems at point 0
- Sound support and extension
- Creating a support
- Creating an Extension
- Designing tonal sounds
- Converting MIDI to Audio files
- Harmonizers Pitch Layering control
- Layering Stereo Position Control
- Layering frequency range
- Effects Chains for Sound Design
- Working out of the DAW
- Mammut
- Metasynth
- The attention call
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- The musical sense
- Space between instruments
- The importance of silence
- The macrodinamic
Session 21. Structure parts (Arrangement).
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- The beginning of the track
- The phrase
- The bridge
- Strong part and weak part
- The Outcoming
- Arrangements
- When you can consider your track is finished?
- Bouncing for mix