Desktop Music Production for Mac
Gain all the knowledge you need to produce great-sounding recordings of your music. Even if you begin this course with little or no understanding of desktop production, you'll end it with a quality master recording ready for CD or MP3! Let accomplished musician, sound designer and Berklee professor Michael Bierylo guide you through the challenges of setting up your own home studio, sampling, basic audio mixing, and more. With hands-on lessons and projects, you'll master concepts like digitization, signal flow, multi-tracking, equalization, signal processing, MIDI, and everything you need to turn your Mac or PC into a virtual multitrack studio.
Upon completing this course, you will have learned to:
- Choose the right tools to produce your own music
- Plan and configure home studio hardware components
- Develop musical ideas using MIDI and digital audio software
- Edit and create your own synthesizer sounds
- Use samples and sample loops in a variety of musical settings
- Mix multitrack audio projects
- Understand and use standard audio effects
- Make a final master of an audio project suitable for distribution
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Online Summer Term Starts June 25th
Course Info
| For-credit tuition: $1,400 |
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Non-credit tuition: $1,200 Add 6 CEUs: $25.00 |
| Credits: 3 |
| Duration: 12 weeks |
| Catalog #: BMPR-101a |
Course Faculty 
| Michael Bierylo In addition to teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee, Michael is a guitarist, composer, programmer and sound designer. | |
| David Mash Founder of the nation's first music synthesis department and Vice President for Information Technology at Berklee. | |
| Peter Bell Award winning producer, composer, and guitarist. | |
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Course Preview
It seems like everyone is recording at home these days. Bands are recording their own demos to seek gigs and deals with labels, and even completing independent releases that they can distribute on CD. If you feel like you’re the only one who’s missing out on the DIY revolution, Berkleemusic’s online Desktop Music Production course can help you launch your own home recording assault. Read more
Student Comments
“I liked learning how to set up a home recording studio and examining the inner workings of Logic and Reason. The professor was fantastic. He's an excellent educator and was always available to answer questions." - K. Gunn
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