Sound Design with Simpler [Ableton]

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Lesson series
  • Instructor: Elliot Cole
  • Level: All Levels
  • Study time: 8 hours
  • Video: 2 hours 43 minutes
  • Challenges: 6
Course overview
Through hands-on projects, you'll master Ableton's most useful instrument while learning the fundamentals of sound design.
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Learn by doing
You'll design 11 different types of instruments, including pads, plucks, drums, basses, leads, electric piano, bells, noise effects and more – all using just a few sounds you can make yourself with your voice. In the process, you'll learn about envelopes, filters, modulators, LFOs, waveforms, overtones, core concepts that will help you understand all other samplers, synths and effects.
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Develop your ear
Learn to listen deeply to a sound in all of its dimensions - pitch, shape, overtones, motion - and re-create it.  Test your skills in 7 challenges, with hints and full explanations.

Course Lessons

Meet the instructor

Elliot Cole

Elliot Cole is a composer, producer and "charismatic contemporary bard" (NY Times). He teaches Music Production at Juilliard, and Ableton at The New School. He has written for and performed with Grammy winners Roomful of Teeth, Grammy nominees A Far Cry and Metropolis Ensemble, and many other ensembles, his music evoking "sparkling icicles of sound" (Rolling Stone). He is a PhD candidate in Music Composition at Princeton University, and lives in New York.
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