The Technology of Music Production by Coursera
Course Highlights
- Discuss the nature of sound, how it travels, and its properties
- Set up your Digital Audio Workstation, record audio, and utilize basic audio editing techniques such as trimming, fades, and merging
- Define the different categories of effects: Dynamic Effects, Delay Effects, and Filter Effects and use them effectively in a recording project
- Discuss the role filters play in music synthesis and define how they effect the input signal
Skills you will learn!
Curriculum
6 Topics
Welcome
A Note From Loudon
Connect with Your Classmates
Course Resources
A Course Certificate
What Are Your Goals for this Course?
21 Topics
Lesson Overview
Propagation
Amplitude
Frequency
Visualizing Sound
Connections Overview
Microphone as a Transducer
Microphone Types
Microphone Frequency Response
Microphone Polar Patterns
Microphone Placement
Line Level and Gain Staging
Cables
Interface
Microphone Connection and Gain
Analog to Digital Converter
Pickup Connections
The Digital Audio Workstation (DAW)
The Nature of Sound
Microphones & Cables
Signals
34 Topics
Lesson Overview
Analog to Digital Conversion
Buffer Size
File Types
Project Folder
Project Checklist
Multitrack
Recording Audio
Zooming
Trimming
Separating and Cutting
Nudging
The Grid
Fades
Cycling
Merging
Naming and Coloring
Markers
Comping
Destructive Editing
MIDI
MIDI Controllers
Software Instruments
MIDI Editing: Velocity
MIDI Editing: Quantization
Common MIDI Recording and Editing Functions
Wrap-up
Creating Your Assignments
Reviewing Your Peers' Assignments
Assignment Example
The DAW
Tracks Files and Editing
MIDI
Presentation #1
10 Topics
Lesson Overview
The Channel Strip
The Bus Concept
Effects Categories
Inserts
The Submix
Sends
Automation
Wrap-up
The Channel Strip Effects and Sends
12 Topics
Lesson Overview
Noise
Distortion
Dynamic Range Manipulation
Dynamic Processors Overview
Dynamic Processor Parameters
Gate
Downward Compressor
Limiter
Wrap-up
Dynamic Range & Dynamic Processors
Presentation #2
12 Topics
Lesson Overview
The Delay Concept
The Delay Spectrum
Modulated Short Delays
Filters Overview
Mixing EQ
Medium Delay: Slap Back
Long Delay
Reverb
Width in Mixing
Space in Mixing
Delay and Filters
10 Topics
Lesson Overview
Oscillators
Filters
Amplifiers
LFO (Low Frequency Oscillator)
A Language of Timbre
Wrap-up
Oscillators Filters and Modulation
Putting It All Together
Presentation #3
The Technology of Music Production
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