Sound Design for the Electronic Musician

Learn to create your own electronic sounds for musical productions using Propellerhead’s Reason and Native Instruments’ Absynth. By working through a series of practical, hands-on activities, you’ll gain an understanding of the skills necessary to produce and replicate the electronic sounds common in today’s modern music. This course begins by introducing you to the basics of how synthesizers work, sound design concepts, and how to program a wide variety of synthesizers. From there you’ll explore more detailed aspects of sound creation and manipulation including imitating acoustic instruments, FM, oscillator sync, ring modulation, and advanced modulation; techniques that you can transfer to any hardware or software synthesizer.

By the end of this course, you will:

• Use control signals and understand control signals in Reason’s Subtractor
• Understand digital samplers
• Understand modulation and MIDI control
• Build complex sounds and create sonic gestures (macrosynthesis)
• Understand the basic sound design elements of visual media

Berklee Online and Propellerhead have come together to offer an educational discount on Reason. Once you enroll in the course, you will be able to purchase this package at the discounted price through the Required Course Materials link on your My Home page. Early enrollment is encouraged to ensure software delivery prior to the start of the course.

Syllabus

Lesson 1 Overview of Electronic Music Synthesizers

Lesson 2 Using Control Signals in Sound Design

Lesson 3 Control Signals in Reason’s Subtractor

Lesson 4 Sound Design—Characteristics and Editing

Lesson 5 More Sound Design—Designing Sounds

Lesson 6 Understanding Digital Samplers

Lesson 7 More on Digital Sampling

Lesson 8 Extended Subtractive Techniques

Lesson 9 Advanced Modulation and MIDI Control

Lesson 10 MacroSynthesis

Lesson 11 Sound Design for Visual Media

Lesson 12 Final Project Posting and Discussions

Requirements

Prerequisites and Course-Specific Requirements

Completion of Music Production 101 , or equivalent knowledge and/or experience.

Required Textbook(s)

• None required

Software Requirements

• VCV Rack
• Reason 10 or higher
• Native Instruments’ Absynth 5
• One of the projects in this course will have you apply what you’ve learned to create sound design elements for a video clip. To do this, you’ll need to use any Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that supports video playback (Pro Tools, Logic Pro X, Cubase, Digital Performer, etc). Although Reason does not support video playback, there are utilities available that will allow a video clip to play in sync with Reason. These include ReSync 1.1 for Mac or PC or ReasonSync for Mac.

Hardware Requirements

• Audio interface
• MIDI keyboard

Instructors

Michael Bierylo

Author & Instructor

For Michael Bierylo, teaching Music Synthesis at Berklee is just one component of an eclectic and highly creative career. From his Virtual Planet studio, he’s completed film, video, and multimedia scores for clients like Hasbro Interactive, Nintendo, MSNBC, Nickelodeon, VH1, Martha Stewart Living, and Universal Studios’ Islands of Adventure. He’s also a guitarist, composer, programmer and sound designer for the uncategorizable new music avatars Birdsongs of the Mesozoic. His solo album Life Line earned four and a half stars from the All Music Guide, and he’s a voting member of the National Association of Recording Arts and Sciences.

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David Mash

Author

Author of nine books and a recognized expert on music technology, David Mash is Vice President for Information Technology at Berklee College of Music. One of Berklee’s true innovators, he founded the nation’s first music synthesis department, developed the Center for Technology in Music Instruction, and assisted in the design of the country’s largest networked music learning facility, the Berklee Learning Center. He has also scored award-winning digital films, and appeared on such programs as Newton’s Apple, CBS Evening News, 3-2-1 Contact, and National Public Radio’s All Things Considered.

What’s Next?

When taken for credit, Sound Design for the Electronic Musician can be applied towards these associated programs:

Associated Certificate Programs

• General Music Studies Professional Certificate
• General Music Studies Advanced Professional Certificate
• Music Production using Pro Tools Advanced Professional Certificate
• Sampling and Sound Design for Electronic Music Professional Certificate
• Music Production and Technology Advanced Professional Certificate
• Electronic Music Production and Sound Design Advanced Professional Certificate

Associated Degree Majors

• Bachelor’s Degree in Music Production
• Bachelor’s Degree in Electronic Music Production and Sound Design
• Bachelor’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Music Studies (Create Your Own Major)

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