Master sound design for music production, game audio development, film scoring, composition, and more!
InstructorJ. Anthony Allen
Free
Free
Free
Instruction covers a wide array of techniques including FM, Additive, Wavetable, and Physical Modeling synthesis.
The curriculum includes dedicated sections for creating specific sound categories such as Bass, Leads, and Drums.
Editorial course preview
These 3 complementary views highlight concrete, legible examples from the course presentation.
This view of the FM8 synthesizer software highlights the expert editing environment, featuring the amplitude envelope curve, modulation routing matrix, and waveform controls.
This detailed view of a synthesizer plugin interface displays specific parameter adjustments for sound shaping, including oscillator settings, filter parameters, and ADSR envelope controls.
This screen capture displays a digital audio workstation environment featuring a project timeline with arranged audio clips and a detailed equalizer frequency curve editor.
Some learners find the explanations too simple, lacking the 'how and why' behind complex processes like FM synthesis; note that these signals predate the displayed update date, so the update does not prove a correction has been made.
The practical recipe sections can be difficult to follow, and some signals point toward inconsistent audio quality; note that these signals predate the displayed update date, so the update does not prove a correction has been made.
The course aligns well with the needs of beginners and those looking to use various DAWs, though it may not satisfy experts.