Comprehensive Academy
In our students' words.
“Being from a songwriting and artist background, I was keen to learn the production side. The instructors were amazing, and I felt they explained things in a language I could understand. Now I am zipping around it almost as comfortably as I am when writing a song!”
Natasha Bedingfield
Instructors
Before you enrol.
Your own completed project, a curated portfolio of your work, and a certificate - the year is built around what you are making, not around a syllabus you sit through.
Never more than ten students, so every session is hands-on and every project gets attention.
Yes. Every session runs in person and live online at the same time, so you join whichever suits you and can switch between them.
No. The Academy opens at the fundamentals and builds through production, sound design, mixing and mastering to the business side - self-taught producers use it to fill the gaps, beginners use it as the whole road.
The tuition for this campus is stated on this page, just above the call to action, with the registration fee and the early-booking discount.
A year, at 360 hours of instruction. The schedule skips the major holidays, so the year is designed to be finishable alongside a life.
Ready when you are.
InquireCreative Audio Effects: Resonators
This is a legacy instrument in Live but it still packs a punch for interesting sound design, turning non tonal sound sources into musical chords or even…
Read →Control Surfaces and Hardware Control
Faders you can actually grab. Once you have ridden a vocal with a real fader, drawing the same move with a mouse feels like a downgrade - and Logic…
Read →Selection-Based Processing
Print an effect onto a piece of audio instead of running it on the track. The plug-ins here have nothing to do with the channel strip - they process the…
Read →Spectral Resonator and Spectral Time
Two effects that work on the frequency spectrum rather than the waveform. Resonator turns anything pitched; Spectral Time freezes and smears it. The most distinctive processors Live ships.
Read →The Chord Track
One place to write the harmony of your song. Put the chords here and every Session Player in the project follows them - change a chord and the bass, the…
Read →Link, Tempo Follower and MIDI Sync
Playing in time with other people, other software and other machines. Link over a network, Tempo Follower chasing a live drummer, and old-fashioned MIDI clock.
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