Production Resources

For those of you wanting to learn more about the complexities of harmony and counterpoint, from the basics of melodies and harmonies, through to much more advanced harmonic theory, you might like to check this out.

The MIT is offering a full undergraduate level course on Harmony and Counterpoint theory for free. The course is dated Spring 2005, and naturally many of these sort of musical fundamentals date back to the days of yore! (You'll notice the course home page features a picture of Ludwig van Beethoven - a man ever so slightly skilled in this particular field!)

It's not widely known, but several pretty heavy weight Universities actually give away a lot of full courses online for free once they've been running for a while. Naturally some of these are a few years old, but I've seen some dated up to 2007.

I'm currently going through many of these lists and finding courses which I think might interest some of you, as musicians.

The first of these that I thought I would post about here is the Undergraduate level course, Composing with Computers, offered by MIT. It's dated Spring 2003, so I would imagine will still be of real value to those of you wanting to study the use of Mac-based studio environments running Pro Tools, MAX/MSP, Peak, and Digital Performer - as well as some outboard hardware.

This is a common question, so I thought I'd post a tutorial video on how to setup your MIDI controller to work with FLstudio.

This is a very clear video tutorial put together by Zukan from Samplecraze, on how to use Propellerheads Recycle software to slice up audio samples...

Cakewalk, the software company which has of course brought many tried and true musicians apps such as Sonar to life, has recently established it's own Youtube channel.

There you'll find many videos on topics ranging from getting started with Sonar, to advanced tips and tricks, to sneak previews of upcoming software.

I'll be posting some of the best Sonar videos shortly, as I know a lot of you guys rock Sonar.

You can check out the Cakewalk Youtube channel here.

Here's a video tutorial on Cubase's Pool - continued.

Here's a video tutorial on using the Pool in Cubase.

Here's a video tutorial on further audio recording in Cubase.

Here's a video tutorial on recording audio in Cubase.

Here's a video tutorial on VST connections within Cubase.