BACKGROUND

Arguably the most popular platform for modern music production, Cubase 5 offers industry standard digital facilities for everyone from musicians, to arrangers, to DJs.  Cubase 5’s solid basis in both MIDI and Digital Audio make it the program of choice in many of South Africa’s cutting-edge studios. Other features, such as its highly acclaimed plug-ins and Virtual Instruments, have ensured the success of the program in leading project and production studios around the world.  While covering all the universal aspects of Digital Audio Workstations, such as recording and manipulation audio, and MIDI sequencing, this course is especially aimed at the Cubase user.  Anyone, from the home-recording musician to the budding producer, would greatly benefit from this intensive training program. Let us teach you the tools of the trade.

Course outline

• Overview of Cubase 5
• Fundamentals of MIDI
• MIDI Sequencing
• Fundamentals of Digital Audio
• Getting the Most from Your PC
• EQ, FX and Inserts
• The Channel Mixer and Basic Automation
• The Piano Roll and Step Programming
• Editing the Master track
• Final Mix