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Using the most powerful and industry-standard software such as Nuendo, CUBASE, Pro Tools, WaveLab, Kontakt, Reason, and Reaktor, and Flash combined with hands-on training, students will gain the highest level of expertise and practical information while building a professional portfolio of completed projects ready for industry exposure.

Areas:
-Study of the Visual Mediums and Narrative Constructs
- The Complete Sound design Process Cycle
- Project and Financial Management for Sound Design
- Sound Design Studio Build-out, Setup, and Equipment
- Understanding Acoustics & Human Perception of Sound
- Synthesis Theory, Technologies and Techniques
- Midi sequencing and editing
- Microphone techniques & construction
- Foley and Field Recording Techniques
- Digital Sampling and Editing
- Sound Effects Design and Placement
- Ambience and Background Design
- ADR replacement recording, Editing and synchronization
- Audio and Control Signal processing
- Mixing and Mastering techniques for Film and Gaming
- Sound Design for Animation and Interactive media
- Spatial Audio Theory and Surround sound mixing

What the Sound Design Program is not…

An education in music composition –the course is aligned to sound design and not explicitly music composition for visual media. The course will cover the intersection of sound design with music composition for visual media as an awareness of conjoined efforts, and students will choose and integrate pre-recorded music as part of the course

An education in Visual Media creation –in a one-year course focus is on the sound design craft; therefore pre-produced visual media is provided for the student. Methods of professional visual production are covered in theory, but the actual production including skills and tools are not. Students with these abilities are at some advantage

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