What you’ll achieve: In this project-centered course*, you will create sounds and use them in your own musical compositions. Whether you're an aspiring producer, composer, or hobbyist, this course will help you gain skills in music production and confidence using software synthesizers. Along with your classmates, you will create a massive database of designed sounds, or patches, to use in your compositions. As part of the course, you will work with a free version of FXpansion Strobe 2. What you’ll need to get started: This course is designed for learners who are familiar with music production basics, and who have access to some basic music production equipment. Specifically, you should have experience with a digital audio workstation that supports VST, AAX, or AU plugins (Introduction to Music Production or Pro Tools Basics are recommended if you do not have this experience). You will also need a MIDI keyboard or controller (such as an oxygen 8), a digital audio workstation, such as Pro Tools, and FXpansion Strobe 2 (a free 90-day demo will be provided for Coursera learners in this course). *About Project-Centered Courses: This is a ‘project-centered course’, which means it is designed specifically to help you complete a personally meaningful real-world project, with your instructor and a community of learners with similar goals providing guidance and suggestions along the way. By actively applying new concepts as you learn, you’ll master the course content more efficiently; you’ll also get a head start on using the skills you gain to make positive changes in your life and career. When you complete the course, you’ll have a finished project that you’ll be proud to use and share.
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来自 Berklee College of Music 的课程
Creating Sounds for Electronic Music
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Creating A Mock Up
This week, we'll start working in Strobe 2 and create a mock up of our song. We will focus on creating drum and bass patches to use in our songs. We'll also go over the form we will be using for our electronic etudes.
与讲师见面
Loudon StearnsAssistant Professor
Contemporary Writing & Production
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So much of this course is going to involve saving and sharing presets from Strobe2.
So I'd like to take a moment to look at the browser in particular,
show how to open up that init patch, or initialize patch,
that we're going to be using for every one of our presets,
and then give a little bit of an overview of the Strobe2 interface.
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So when you get Strobe2, the browser is extensive.
There's a ton of sounds in it, and honestly it can be a little bit
intimidating the first time trying to find just what you want.
There's a bunch of ways that you can kind of.
And to limit what you're searching for and the first one is to go to type and
you'll see there is a variety of categories and actually throughout
the course I've used these categories to organize the presets we make.
And we make a lot of these throughout the duration of the course.
So if I want to look just for chords or I want to look just for
basses I can just choose basses here and I'm only going to see bass patches.
Now you'll notice that all the base patches begin with letters BA and
that's their kind of code for bass, and
each of these categories has a short code like that.
Like organ is OR.
You'll also noticed that most of the browser factory library
patches end with a little code as well, like one like AFH.
And what that is, the patch creator, the sound designer,
kind of tagging it with their name.
And that's where we can go to the artist section and we can kind of pick
among the sound designer's that developed the factory library.
So if I go to the Angus Hewlett, we'll actually see all the AFH patches there.
And those are all the patches that he created I would encourage,
as you go through the class, to take on that habit
of using those same kind of two letter codes as you make your own patches.
Just naming your patches and saving them, wow,
that's really important, because that's how you're going to establish
kind of your own personal electronic music voice.
Now, one of your first assignments is going to be to search this entire
library and find the things that you like.
We're trying to really establish that personal voice, and
one of the best ways to do that is to use the favorites option.
So if you find a patch you like, you can click on the star next to it, and
it will become in your favorites folder, which is shown right there.
So now we see I have one thing in my favorites folder and you're going to be
filling that up this week, taking a screen shot of it and posting it in the class to
show that you really did go through and explore the library.
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The next thing I'd like to look at is how we're going to import a preset and
the synthmook and init preset has been distributed in the course.
And I'd like you to try to load it into strobe, now.
You're going to go to the import button, import preset,
and find it in your computer and load it up.
It's going to ask you if you want to install this preset into the browser for
future use.
And yes, you absolutely do because you will need it at the beginning of
every one of the patch creation videos we have in the course.
Now that's going to go right into your browser, and it honestly can be kind of
hard to find this stuff that you made kind of mixed in with the entire library.
And again, we want to have a small collection of patches that really
represents you.
So that's where this library buttons a key because you can click on it and
switch over to user and it only show the patches that you've made or
you've imported and so we'll be filling that up as the course goes on.
And you make a ton of presets that you're really proud of or
you get from sharing with the classmates here in the class.
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So now let's look at what you might see throughout Strobe2 here.
We have three main rows in the main interface here.
The first one is our sound path.
And the sounding strobe in all synthesizers starts with an oscillator.
Your oscillator is your sound generation device and we have three of them here.
We have our main oscillator, our sub oscillator and our noise generator and
they are all generating sound In parallel.
That sound then gets combined to go into our VCF,
which is our voltage controlled filter.
That's our sound shaper.
Then we have a VCA, which is out voltage controlled amplifier.
And that controls the dynamics over the course of sound.
Under that we have our modulation.
So we have our dual LFO, that's two LFOs that are related to each other.
We'll explore those in depth in the course.
We have a ramp modulator.
We have our mod envelope, which is our filter envelope but
also can be routed to control pitch.
And pretty much everything else in Strobe2.
And we have our amp envelope,
which is hard wired to control the amplitude of the entire synthesizer.
The lower left hand corner of this, we have our voices section.
And that's basically the first place we're going to go.
And we have a keyboard here
that shows you want notes you're playing when you're working with a synthesizer.
There are three main tabs to the interface.
We're in the middle tab now, the Synth tab.
There's also an Effects tab where we can have six slots that we can add
audio effects, things like reverbs and EQs and additional filters and choruses.
And we have an arpeggiator section which also is our step sequencer.
And again, we'll be looking at these throughout the course.
On the top of the interface, we have all these that we call, trans mod slots.
And this is how we set up advances modulation and
we'll be getting into that in week two of the class.
So that's a pretty good kind of overview of the strobe2 interface.
I'd like to mention that there are a lot of terms I brought up here things like
filters and oscillators, LFOS, envelopes.
And those are so general purpose right?
Those are the building blocks of every synthesizer.
Behind me we have these modulars and it's the same exact modules.
All these really kind of atoms that make up the molecules that is a synth patch.
If any of these terms are new to you I would advise you go into our glossary and
you look through the definitions of them, and
you kind of have it available to yourself as you go through the course,
because you want something that you can refer to regularly.
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