Online Fall Term Starts September 27th
Desktop Music Production for PC
Course Authors: Michael Bierylo, Steve MacLean, David Mash
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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 PC into a virtual multitrack studio.
And, receive a special educational discount on Reason 4 and SONAR 8 Studio Edition.
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
Berkleemusic and Propellerhead have come together to offer an educational discount on Reason 4 software. Once you enroll in the course, you will be able to purchase the software at the discounted price through the Required Course Materials link on your My Home page. Early enrollment is encouraged to ensure software delivery prior to the start of the course. Depending on the shipping option chosen, software delivery could take up to eight business days.
Berkleemusic and Cakewalk are offering a special educational discount on SONAR 8 Studio Edition, to all students enrolled in the course. Once you enroll in the course, you will be able to purchase the software at the discounted price through the Required Course Materials link on your My Home page. Early enrollment is encouraged to ensure software delivery prior to the start of the course.
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Course Info
| For-credit tuition: $1,295 |
| Non-credit tuition: $1,095 |
| Credits: 3 |
| Duration: 12 weeks |
| Catalog #: BMPR-101b |
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Course Faculty 
| Michael Bierylo In addition to teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee, Michael is a guitarist, composer, programmer and sound designer. | |
| Steve MacLean Guitarist, composer, producer, and engineer, he has been evolving with music technology since the early '80s. | |
| David Mash Founder of the nation's first music synthesis department and Vice President for Information Technology at Berklee. | |
