Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
3 Hour(s) 30 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
David Hughes
Rating
Course Overview
Learn how to use MIDI and Audio Samples in music production
Welcome to creating a instrumental beat or musical score from scratch within the Pro Tools DAW. This course will cover everything you need to know from start to finish for composing music with MIDI and analog samples within the Pro Tools work space. We'll start with the session setup and how to organize your tracks to create a template. This will allow you to quickly and easily create new compositions regularly to keep your creative ideas flowing.
At the start of this course, we're going to cover some essential basics that are fundamental in your workflow production. You may already be aware of these crucial steps to production, but just in case you missed something, I'm going to review how to optimize your system for a professional workflow in Pro Tools.
This course is perfect for anyone interested in learning how to use digital software to compose music. We'll take a look at the stock plugins that come with Pro Tools and then explore some 3rd party plugins that you can add to your system if you need to expand your sound library. You'll be able to customize your sounds and learn the basics for creating an engaging mix.
Finally, I'll give you some advice on how to distribute and market your music so that you can turn your passion into a source of income. I look forward to sharing this course with you and I welcome any questions you may have about the lectures.
Course Content
- 6 section(s)
- 42 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Setting Up Pro Tools & Templates
- Section 2 Learn how to control your sound
- Section 3 Composing the Beat
- Section 4 Mixing & Automation in Pro Tools
- Section 5 Effects and Textures
- Section 6 Mixing the beat (Uploading more videos soon)
What You’ll Learn
- Setup a Pro Tools session , Record MIDI & audio into the Pro Tools workspace, Setup tempo changes and arrange MIDI notes to sync with the tempo, Import audio samples to arrange within a mix , Use the Grid feature in Pro Tools with confidence, Create custom samples and trigger them with MIDI, Add effects to the samples and sounds being generated by Pro Tools
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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MMarcos Vargas
A lot of attention to detail very knowledgeable and professional I love this course
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SSergiu Marandiuc
A lot of places in the video where you don't know what exactly was clicked or what keyboard shortcut has been used - you just have to guess where exactly you have to look
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CChristopher Smith
Awesome as usual with Udemy. To be instructed by a working producer that is real and down to earth is refreshing. So far, this has been an amazing adventure!
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ZZoltan Horcsok
Decent intro to the topic but zero on using an external pad or keyboard as a midi trigger device. That was SPECIFICALLY advertised (USB keyboard) - disappointing. Spending time on plugins that are not stock is also a waste of teaching time. Either spend the time walking students through how to integrate a third party plugin (frequency analyzer you used for instance) or don't bother. Lastly ... you should include a section that touches on a simple mastering process. You've stemmed everything out and talked about the frequency spectrum and compression .... that would be a natural addition to the existing sections. Anyway ... $20 .... could have been worse spent.
