Music Production · Handouts and Tools

Foundations

The ideas under everything you make: sound itself, editing, envelopes, mixing, dynamics.

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Digital Audio Fundamentals

What sound is, how computers store it, and why it matters for what you make.

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Editing concepts & envelope

Editing as a vocabulary, and the shape of sound over time.

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Recording

Capturing your own sound, from one microphone up to the full studio.

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A Simple Recording Chain

Signal flow from microphone to file.

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Widening the Flow

Other signal types, other cables, other mics, plus the boxes that connect them.

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The Mixer

Bringing many signals together on the studio console.

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The Studio

A guide to recording in our studio, end to end.

The DAW

Producing in Ableton Live, from the first session to a finished mix.

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Into the DAW

A map of Ableton Live, and the ideas that apply in any DAW.

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Audio Editing in Ableton

Set up Live, bring your library onto the timeline, and edit it into a short piece.

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Sampling in Ableton

Turn your library into instruments, then sequence a short idea.

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Mixing in Ableton

Commit a finished session to audio, then mix it.

Listening

Music to put on while you work, and to learn from.

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Listening

Building new music from recorded sound: musique concrète, field recording, and sampling.

Reference

Two guides beyond the lessons: the working side of music, and the production portfolio.

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Resources

Getting your music heard, getting paid for it, and getting better at it.

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The production portfolio

What to build, how to save and organize it, and how to hand it in.