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Sonic Academy proudly welcomes a brand new tutor this week, Munich born DJ, producer and label owner Jerome Isma-Ae. Combining influences of trance and techno that create unique and distinguished progressive sounds, Jerome is one of the highest-selling and most sought after progressive house acts on the scene today.

Merging his skills with those of his collaborator Alastor, whose interest in sound design started when his father gave him a second-hand Casio synth from a consignment shop in Brooklyn back in 1991, the two of them create highly acclaimed and unique sounding tracks.

Grammy Award–winning mix engineer Dave Pensado shows you awesome tips and tricks on the art of mixing. With so many specifics to mixing, it’s sometimes better to take a broad-stroke approach to mixing as a whole. In these general-mixing-focused ITL episodes, Dave goes through the essentials to get your mixes starting on the right foot.

Dave starts with the top ten mistakes someone makes on a mix and how to avoid making them, training your ear to hear certain frequencies, mixing a song based on its style, how to properly use reference mixes and dissecting a mix and learning from the original sonic choices.

Bluffmunkey's back with us again for a new How To Use course, and this time he's checking out Audiority's granular effects processor, Grainspace.

With a huge amount of control over the behaviour of the grains stream, Grainspace focuses on real-time granularization and reverberation of the incoming audio signal and provides dynamic grain generation (up to 32 per channel), 7 grain parameters, 3 grain modulators (including an 11 waveforms LFO), smearing and reverb to create crazy sound effects, rich textures and much more.

In this course, we teach how to compose a modern, bass driven tech house track in Ableton Live. The course spans 59 videos, spread over 8 modules, totaling 9 hours of lectures. The Tech House Tutorial 2017 covers everything from start to finish, from a blank canvas to a full, mix and mastered track. After completing this course, you will be able to take the techniques used throughout the course, compose your own track and play it out in the club!

Real-time plugins can be an important part of a modern Pro Tools workflow—but there are still times when AudioSuite plugins are the optimal choice. In this course, take a deep dive into working with AudioSuite plugins in Pro Tools. Author Garrick Chow explains how to determine when to go with AudioSuite plugins, and then takes you through the basic AudioSuite workflow. He covers some key AudioSuite plugins, including Pitch II and Vari-Fi. He also goes over modulation and harmonics plugins, highlighting the phase shift, flange, and chorus modulation effects available in the AudioSuite menu, as well as Harmonic AudioSuite effects which provide modelers of classic guitar amps and stompboxes. Plus, he shows how to leverage the AudioSuite Gain, Invert, and Normalize plugins, as well as other utility plugins.

FL Studio guru Tyler Coffin gives you an in-depth tour of the new Image Line FL Studio 12.5 update! Learn all about its new features and options, as well as see them used in-action, as Tyler uses them as he works on a song throughout the series. You even get the FL Studio project file too!

Tyler begins by welcoming you and goes over what will be covered in the series, as well as gives you an overview of the new things found in FL Studio 12.5.

Do you dream of becoming a paid music artist? One that is recording, playing concerts, and getting paid to do it? Or have you started within the last few years and you're unsure of how to do the business, marketing, or distribution sides of being a musician?

In this three-part class, I will take you step by step through how to start as a working musician. I will be sharing with you everything I wish someone had told me when I started. You will save tons of time and research by taking this class!

In this Homespun video series, bass extraordinaire David Gross takes you through scales and modes in every position, adding octave patterns, arpeggios, rhythm grooves and other devices to expand your musical vocabulary.

Learn to transpose, hear rhythmic changes and understand intervals, chord substitutions and voicings. David also shows you dozens of practice patterns and exercises.

Now that you know the basics of designing drum sounds, it’s time to get deeper. In this advanced dance music sound design course, EDM expert Adam Pollard delivers a wealth of innovative tools, tips and inspiration to help you design killer beats.

Pads are a key arrangement texture for all kinds of music... and especially dance music. Join Adam Pollard, AKA Multiplier, to learn the advanced art of pad creation… and your EDM tracks will thank you.

Miroslav Philharmonik has carved a niche for itself in the crowded landscape of orchestral libraries by offering sounds focusing on emotional character. In this info-packed tutorial series, studio expert Eli Krantzberg demonstrates how to pull every last nuance out of this impressive virtual string instrument.

In this Drumstroke™ video tutorial series, drum guru Luke Oswald shows you how to develop and create grooves that will improve your independence and dynamics, making you an overall groovier player!

In film, sound is a crucial part of good storytelling. A film's audio carries the information, data, and plotline of a movie to its audience. Although Final Cut Pro X has wonderful sound editing tools, there are many advantages to using a dedicated digital audio workstation (DAW) for your final mix. In this course, video editing pro Michael Towe looks at using Logic Pro X for doing just this. He covers what steps to take in Final Cut Pro X to prepare your footage, as well as how to export your film to Logic Pro X, import and mix your soundtrack in Logic Pro X, and then import and re-sync your soundtrack in Final Cut Pro X. Upon wrapping up this course, you'll be better equipped to enhance your final mix by leveraging the tools in a DAW.

Tim Seelig has wowed music educators and choral directors with his entertaining, yet practical approach to vocal choir warmup exercises. Whether you’re in a choir or a solo singer, these exercises will get your voice ready for your next gig or performance!

From the basic building block of breath to the final bow in the concert, over 50 warm-ups are visually brought to life through choral demonstrations. Regardless of the kind of music you sing, The Perfect Blend warm up exercises will get you ready for your next gig, performance or studio session. Check out “The Perfect Blend” today!

Based on the knowledge and experience of award-winning veterans of the music production and record industries, Recording Fundamentals with Dave Darlington provides all the essentials you need to help you make recordings in your studio that compare to those from the top facilities in the business.

Hosted and written by two-time Grammy®-winning recording engineer/producer David Darlington, and co-written and directed by producer and music-technology veteran Rusty Cutchin, the series covers all the fundamentals from basic sound and electronics to mixing, mastering, and distribution while providing insider tips and tricks gleaned from a combined 80 years of music making, recording, and educating with some of the biggest names in the business.