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Audacity is a free, open-source, audio-editing application that many nonaudio professionals use to record live audio, convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording, and more. In this course, Garrick Chow helps you get up and running by laying out the basics of the program. Observe how to download and install Audacity on both Mac and Windows, import and play existing audio files, and record original audio, including multitrack audio projects. View how to perform basic editing tasks like copying and pasting audio and splitting clips, as well as some more advanced tricks like automating volume changes across a project.

Avoid bad habits and learn properly with our beautifully presented, structured and super fun course!

Our brand new course for beginners and intermediates has been designed to ensure that beginners learn correctly from and avoid bad habits that slow down progress, and shows you intermediate players exactly how to correct any bad habits that you may have already picked up and seriously speed up your learning, taking your playing to the next level!

Native Instruments’ Maschine Jam is designed for sequencing and track building. It outputs MIDI so you can even use it with your favorite DAW! NI expert Matt Cellitti designed this FastTrack™ course to get you “jamming” FAST!

Scoring to picture in Logic Pro X is a great skill to have in your toolbox. There’s lots to learn. But have no fear, David Earl –the SFLogicNinja– is here to show you the way in this FastTrack™ course. Get scoring, FAST!

Logic Pro X 2017, a special issue of MusicTech magazine dedicated to Apple’s number-one DAW for music production. The focus in this issue is very much how you can get more creative with the software, so we look in detail about what you can do with Logic’s effects to extend your sonic signature (see p6 and p44), explain how you can get more from Drum Machine Designer (p72), and even look at how you can chain two Macs together to use with Logic (p76). We’ve tried to keep everything very Logic specifi c (aside from some general music production tips on p34) so feature some of our readers’ Logic-based studios in our popular Show Off Your Studio slots (on pages 14 and 90). Add to that features on freeware and mastering plus reviews of the best gear for your Logic studio, we hope this is a magazine that fulfi lls all of your Logic needs. Enjoy!

This textbook is a first introduction to mathematics for music theorists, covering basic topics such as sets and functions, universal properties, numbers and recursion, graphs, groups, rings, matrices and modules, continuity, calculus, and gestures. It approaches these abstract themes in a new way: Every concept or theorem is motivated and illustrated by examples from music theory (such as harmony, counterpoint, tuning), composition (e.g., classical combinatorics, dodecaphonic composition), and gestural performance. The book includes many illustrations, and exercises with solutions.

Producertech invites you to join DJ and producer Martin Eyerer in his Berlin studio, as he creates a deep and grooving tech house track from scratch. The course gives you the chance to watch an established producer at work, and benefit from his vast amounts of production experience in the electronic music industry.

Based on ethnographic research within the extreme metal community, Unger offers a thought-provoking look at how symbols of authenticity and defilement fashion social experience in surprising ways.

The sound of slide guitar is at the heart of the blues!

‘MPC: Sampling Laid Bare’ (7th Edition) focuses entirely on teaching practical and creative sound design, sample editing and program construction within the MPC Renaissance & MPC Studio (including the new MPC Studio Black), providing 360 pages of incredibly in-depth, hands-on tutorials for MPC Software 1.9 on a range of sample-based MPC workflow topics

Learn how to turn a demo recording to a fully mastered song with Grammy-winning author/producer/mixer Scott Jacoby. These simple, memorable, and practical techniques cover the production process from beginning to end, introducing not just the how, but the why—the philosophies and concepts—behind great audio engineering. You'll understand how to choose the right song for recording, select a tempo and key, and lay down tracks with both real and virtual instruments and vocals. Scott then takes you into post, where the editing, mixing, and mastering magic happens. The techniques are demonstrated in Pro Tools, but you can follow along in any one of your favorite DAWs. By the end, you'll have the skills you need to record, edit, and mix a complete song.

The popularization and cult-like following of electronic music has provoked new relations between men and machines, art and technology, and modern shamans and disc jockeys. New technologies and multimedia tools have awakened neo-ritual practices through the emergence of Psychedelic Trance parties, evoking tribal experiences inspired by a new shamanism, mediated by high-tech guide elements.

Learn how to make a hip hop track in FL Studio, by making one.

Learn How To Make Your First Hip Hop Track - No Experience Required!

Here, for the first time on Sonic Academy, we proudly welcome Steve Mac who shows us 'How To Make Disco House'. In this tutorial, he gives us a fantastic insight into his production workflow, track arrangement and sidechain automation techniques to get his Rhythm Masters trademark disco house vibe going.

Mix engineer Alex Solano is back with a Mixing Pop-EDM course with Studio One. See how he tackles the challenges of this genre in this 20+ tutorial course.

Every genre has its mixing challenges and in this Studio One course Alex Solano is up to the challenge. He starts out by explaining his mixing philosophy and the concept of subtractive arrangement. Next, he shows how to get organized by creating folders and using busses. From there, he moves right into the mix. He begins with the drums and slowly adds all the other instruments as he explains how he creates clarity while simultaneously getting all the tracks working together.