From Hitting Record to Hit Record: Start Producing Music!

Course details

Be the music producer you've always wanted to be. Create commercial-quality songs with any popular music production software.

Produce Music You Love and Share it With the World

• Learn popular audio engineering techniques used in recording studios everywhere

• Recognize synthesizer components and design your own sounds

• Master loop-based drum patterns

• Record and manipulate your own recorded sounds

• Design complex, multi-sampled instruments

• Utilize popular effect devices, including reverb, delay and distortion

• Create a professional mix of your song, with EQ, compression, gating, insert FX, sends and automation

• Share your final mix after mastering it with Reason's built-in professional grade devices

Produce Hit Music in Your Studio

Not long ago, music production required hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment, studio time and skilled engineers. Now, anyone with a passion for music and a computer can produce music for radio, TV, movies, iTunes, and Spotify.

There are a lot of options for music software, but Reason is powerful, comprehensive and fun. It's the only software you need to start producing incredible music from start to finish. In this course, songwriters, singers, artists and musicians of all types will learn how to use Reason to turn their computer into a recording studio.

Course Overview

Start from the very beginning, including equipment setup, software installation and basic audio concepts. From there, you'll dive right into the fun stuff - creating drum loops with drum machines.

Study the components of synthesizers and learn how to identify oscillator, filter and envelope sections in any software or device. You'll learn how to add more advanced characteristics with modulation, low frequency oscillators and polyphony parameters.

Turn mediocre performances into killer tracks with the advanced sequencer and quantization capabilities in Reason. Use blocks and automation to arrange an organic, original mix.

You'll learn best practices for recording great audio with basic equipment and how to get started with sampling and recording vocal tracks. Utilize the power of Rex loops, creating your own variations on one of the many built-in drum, percussion or music loops - or, create a new sliced loop from scratch!

Get started with common effect devices, including reverb, delay and distortion. After completing this course, you'll be confident finding your way around any mixing console. Apply compression, gating and EQ for a true professional sound.

Finally, you'll also learn mastering techniques to help your songs hold their own next to any commercial track out there. Students who complete this course will be able to share a final, mixed, mastered original song with anyone in the world.