Write and record your own music. Learn on-site and studio recording skills and how to build an effective home digital recording studio. Continue to develop your skills as a singer or an instrumentalist. Learn basic digital manipulation and editing techniques through synthesis, signal processing, software-based systems, and interactive computer music, acoustics, perception, basic electronics, invention, trends, aesthetics and the history of electro-acoustic music. Take advantage of our internship and partnership opportunities. Learn aspects of the music business including Intellectual Property, Copyright and Artist Contract Laws. Study abroad for five weeks, one semester or a full year. Want to know more? Visit us at our band website. Now let’s talk gear.
Our primary teaching lab is equipped with both Macs and PCs so students learn cross platform to prepare them for real world situations and making choices when designing their own home studio.
PC workstations are set up with a Korg Triton Keyboard, MBox 2 MIDI interface, Finale, Cakewalk Sonar 4, Ableton Live, Sony Acid Pro, Sony Vegas, Digidesign ProTools, Sony Soundforge, Steinberg CuBase, Steinberg Wavelab, Audacity, Mixed in Key and Propellerhead Reason.
Mac workstations are set up with MBox 2 MIDI interface, Novation ReMOTE 49 SL MIDI Controllers, and dual-boot OS X and Windows XP, with Garage Band, Ableton Live, Digidesign ProTools, Steinberg CuBase, Popellerhead Reason, Logic Pro 8 and iMovie.
Virtual Synths for both: Native Instrumentas, Antatre, FXpansion, IKMultimedia, iZotope, Melodyne and various other brand synths, drum machines and vococers.
For on-site and home studio recording, we use a variety of microphones depending on the set up. Some of our favorites are the Crown Sass-P MKII Stereo PZM, Neumann KM 184, Shure KSM Series mics and AKG C-Series mics. For live recording we run the mics into a preamp, (Symetrix is our favorite), and then into a Digi-design Mbox to a G4 Powerbook or direct to Cubase or Abelton Live. We use a lot of different recording techniques depending on the situation and venue including firebox -> macbook -> cubase/ableton/audacity symetrix -> 002 -> MacBook Pro -> protools/cubase firebox -> g3 ibook -> cubase/audacity.
Individual studio rooms include IMac with Abelton Live, Logic Pro, with 2 event SP8 monitor speakers, behringer bcr 2000 rotary midi controller, yamaha mg12/4 mixer, 8-space road ready rack case, furman merit series m-8d power conditioner, RME fireface 800 audio firewire interface, presonus HP60 headphone mixer, ART tube MP studio V3 tube pre-amp, ART tube MP tube pre-amp, stereo microphone bar, 
2 live wire solutions SPDI direct boxes.More assorted mics than starz in the sky.
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