Program highlights

- Music theory & keyboard training
- Midi operations & sequencing
- Introduction to sound design, synthesis, and sampling
- Understanding the nature of sound & signal flow
- Critical listening from human perception of sound to the applications used for processing audio.
- Microphone construction & application
- Computer technology and its application in the studio
- Introduction to music technology in the studio environment
- Role of a music producer in the industry
- Music Business
- Microphone techniques
- Multi-track recording
- Songwriting
- Mixing techniques & audio processing
- Studio design & configuration
- Music production techniques
- Audio editing & effects processing
- The role of the music producer in the studio
- Recording & mixing with ProTools
- Surround sound configuration & mixing techniques
- Orchestration
- Music composition for film & television
- Band recording
- Music Remixing
- Theory of vocal arranging
- Signal processing using Reaktor
- Advanced digital sampling
- Film scoring
- Web development & internet media formats
- Studio Acoustics & construction
- Principles of using Melodyne for music production
-Lyric Writing
-Music History
-Advanced Song writing
-File Formats
-DVD Layout & Design
-Streaming Media
-Plugins, signal flow & preset design
-Work Flow in LOGIC audio
-Software scoring
-Sound Design for Interactive Media
-Narrative Music Composition
-Orchestral film composition & arranging
-Postproduction editing
-Digital Audio Conversion
-Career Building
-Quality Control for Music Production

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The student's mastery of the discipline will be evaluated through the completion of professional recording and production projects.