Producing Music with Reason

"Reason is an amazing piece of software, because it’s a virtual studio in a single application,” says Erik Hawkins, who teaches the online course, Producing Music with Reason. “And you can study the components of the studio in the Reason application and learn how to connect things, and it all applies to the real world.” Hawkins ought to know something about the real world. The longtime DJ and producer has also interviewed countless groundbreaking DJs as a writer for Mix magazine and written two books, Studio-in-a-Box, and The Complete Guide to Remixing: Producing Professional Dance-Floor Hits on Your Home Computer.

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Now, he consolidates all of his expertise into a 12-week online course that offers students a step-by-step introduction to song production. The goal is to make sure that his students gain a nuts and bolts understanding of how music is written and recorded. “If you go into a larger recording studio, you’ll have the idea that the synthesizer modules or sampler modules need to be plugged into the mixing board, and that the mixing board is where you set levels, and that if you want to do a stutter edit, you are probably going to want to grab a sampler to do that,” says Hawkins. “And these are all things that we’re learning within this one piece of software, so it’s pretty darn amazing.”

Propellerhead Reason Online Courses at Berkleemusic:

Producing Music with Reason

Desktop Music Production for Mac

Desktop Music Production for PC

Sound Design for the Electronic Musician

Sampling and Audio Production

MIDI Sequencing Intermediate

Hip Hop Writing and Production

Remixing with Pro Tools and Reason

Propellerhead Reason Certificate Programs at Berkleemusic:

Master Certificate in Music Production using Reason
Specialist Certificate in Electronic Music Production using Reason
Specialist Certificate in Music Creation using Reason
Specialist Certificate in Sound Design using Reason

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