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Producertech has announced its Synth Courses online synth training portal.

Producertech’s Synth Courses have been designed to teach you the inner workings of the most popular software instruments available today, in order to teach you how to skilfully edit patches as well as create your own from scratch, which is an essential part of music production.

The courses, which are delivered via streamed movies, thoroughly explain the key stages of synthesis and give numerous examples of patch creation throughout, to help put all of techniques taught into perspective. In addition to the instrument presets and written notes that accompany the lessons, there are a host of extra patches or samples provided by Producertech’s sponsor LOOPMASTERS. Furthermore, students have direct access to tutors either via email or on the forum when help is required.

Synth Courses

• Spectrasonics Omnisphere course by Rob Jones
  Trailer / Sample Module
• Native Instruments Massive course by Rob Jones
  Trailer / Sample Module
• Lennar Digital Sylenth course by Dom Kane
  Trailer / Sample Module

Producertech is offering a 20% discount on these courses until the end of November, 2012. Use coupon code XVPZU169 at checkout.

More information: Synth Courses

SoundToys has announced the availability of its Academic Bundle, a special discounted bundle for students.

If you can prove you’re enrolled as a full-time student at a qualifying institution of higher learning (university or an approved audio production program), you can purchase this special package. Just provide all the details on the Academic order form, and someone in our office will verify it. If all is well, you’ll appear to be smarter than everyone else in your school with your hot new SoundToys plug-ins.

All educational purchases are iLok protected and are available for download only. Downloads will be made available in your SoundToys.com account (which will be created for you) upon approval of your request.

The Academic Bundle is available to purchase for $249 USD.

More information: SoundToys / Academic Discount Program

Dubspot has announced it continues to grow in 2012 with cutting-edge classrooms and new courses.

Over the past few years, Dubspot has grown from a single classroom in New York City’s West Village to a global institute, attracting students from all around the world. This rapid growth has led us to expand our course offering from Dubspot Online and build a whole new floor in our New York facility with four state of the art classrooms.

Each room is acoustically treated and equipped with the latest music technology for music production, sound design, mixing, software – based mastering and electronic music performance. Classes are kept intimate so that each student can work with our instructors to find and sculpt his/her own sound.

We are very proud of our new classrooms and hope you will come explore them for yourself. In the meantime, take a look at this video along with the photos below to catch a glimpse of the expansion process and see what we have been up to.

Upcoming Courses:

• Ableton Live Producer Certificate: NYC 2/27
• Sound Design Certificate Program: NYC 4/17 & 4/18
• Reason: NYC 3/14
• Mixing & Mastering: 3/13 & 3/25

Online courses in Digital DJing w/ Traktor, Ableton Live, and Music Foundations, just started and there is still time to enroll.

More information: Dubspot

The Computer Music Production School has announced a Black Friday Open Enrollment Event for their All-in-One Complete Online Music Course, featuring a 50% discount on open enrollment.

The Computer Music Production School’s All-in-One Complete online music course ($2,500) is now available for $1,250. At the end of the course, students will be able to release as many albums as desired on itunes and will have created an action plan outlining steps to turn their music hobby / profession into additional income.

The music course is comprised of seven lessons and teaches students how to be an artist, music producer, beat maker along with recording, mixing, mastering and helps develop a personal music business plan. Course duration is up to individual’s pace and can be taken in 7 weeks, 7 months, 12 months or as long as needed. The course allows each student’s home studio to become their personal recording school. The curriculum gives personal music production critique and feedback with student adviser support provided at no additional charge. Support includes one on one mentoring on music business, marketing and advanced homework assignments including ear training and sound design. Students will be given skills to work out of any studio or use any gear.

Black Friday Event – Open Enrollment

• All-in-One music course enrollment is only $1,250 including one-on-one student adviser support.
• Payment plans range from $104/12months to $179/7months and are interest free.
• Student’s who pay tuition in full receive unlimited student adviser support and 10GB of drum and instrument sounds from their partner website GotchaNoddin.com.
• Students get opportunity to sell music productions and potential job and record label placement.
• Black Friday Event will expire January 1st, 2012 or when available student space is full.

More information: Computer Music Production School

Point Blank Online has announced a new intensive 1 Year Music Production and Business Diploma course.

You: Love music – you eat, breathe and sleep it. You go out clubbing to it every weekend, you play in a band, you manage acts, you DJ, you want to produce music – whichever role fits you best, it’s a massive part of your life and you are determined to make your mark – to make music your career.

Point Blank Music College: Is the undisputed champion of music production schools, with courses that set you up with the practical skills to gain a foothold in the Music Industry that no other ‘institution’ can match.

Intensive Music Production and Business Diploma: Is full-on with a whopping 3 full practical lecture days per week; it consists of nine 12 week modules running concurrently over three terms and comes with as much practice time as you can handle in Point Blank’s award-winning studios in London. Class sizes are strictly limited and each student has their own state-of-the-art Apple workstation in class. Your tutors are professional music producers and artist management who have worked with successful recording artists ranging from Sugababes and Jamelia, to Florence and the Machine and La Roux, to Massive Attack, Calvin Harris, NERO, deadmau5, Kelis – even Bob Marley!

Exclusive Online Resources: As well as access to the Point Blank studio facilities 7 days a week, students on the Intensive Music Production and Business Diploma course gain access to an innovative range of online resources from Point Blank’s forward-thinking online school: Logic Beginners, Logic Advanced, Sound Design, Art of Mixing, Mastering and 2 genres specialities of your choice. These courses retail at £4,235.

The 1 Year Diploma is enrolling now for January 2012. Please call for details or to check out Point Blank’s facilities on the studio tour which takes place every Wednesday at 3pm. Call first to book a place on 0207 729 4884.

More information: Point Blank London

Shure has announced that entry registration for its eighth annual Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition is now open until October 21 for university and college students nationwide.

Judged by a panel of renowned musicians and industry professionals, the competition enables students to record a musical composition with the same high-quality Shure gear used by professional musicians and engineers.

A random drawing on or about October 24 will narrow down the registrants to ten competing schools. Each participant will receive a standardized microphone locker from Shure that must be used to complete a recording project as part of the competition. Contents of the locker include one KSM313, two KSM32, two KSM44A, one KSM42, two KSM141, four SM57, two SM27, one Beta 52A, one Beta 57A, one Beta 91A, three Beta 98AMP, two Beta 181/S each with an additional Omni capsule, one SM7B, one VP88, and one A27M.

Competing teams from each school are required to track and mix an original piece of music, which will then be judged by a panel of industry professionals who will evaluate the recordings based on their overall fidelity, clarity, sonic balance, and creativity in selection and placement of the microphones. The winning school will be awarded the entire Shure microphone locker, valued at more than $10,000. In addition, students on one of the winning teams will receive prizes ranging from a KSM42 microphone, valued at $999 each to SRH840 headphones, valued at $250 each. Previous judges have included esteemed musicians and recording engineers, including Ed Cherney, Keith Olsen, Mike Clink, Frank Filipetti, Sylvia Massey, and Elliot Scheiner, among many others.

“Every year the caliber of student talent improves, and we’re amazed by the quality of their compositions,” said Terri Hartman, Director of Marketing Communications, Shure Americas. “As we move into our eighth year of the competition, we’re proud to continue supporting students who are pursing careers in the recording and music industry, and we look forward to another round of impressive submissions this year.”

The contestants chosen in the random drawing will be posted on Shure’s website on or around October 31, and dedicated microphone lockers will be sent in the following days. The winner of the Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition, as well as the runner-up and honorable mention distinctions, will be announced on April 30, 2012.

More information: Shure / Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition