| cl0ckw3rk |
I'm a subscriber to Sonic Academy. They have videos geared towards making all kinds of electronic dance music. If you're a visual learner like me, and need to have some basics done in front of you, then this is the place for you. Many of their tutorials are done using Ableton Live, but there some which are exclusively done in Logic 9. The sequencer doesn't matter as much, though, as long as you get the idea behind the basic techniques they use.
If you're a total beginner, I highly recommend that site because it'll help you get up to speed quickly on basics. Of course, there will be a hundred ppl on here to tell you to read books and find what you can for free, but that was a much slower/sparse process for me and didn't work as well in my case. It's very possible to find everything you need for free, but I personally took the route of convenience and found a multitude of techniques in one place.
For intermediate to advanced producers, Sonic Academy's tutorials are generally limited in terms of sound design and arrangement quality. They will teach you the cookie cutter methods of making a genre, and not much else. What's great about it however, is that they step you through making a song one part at a time. It includes the mixing, eq'ing, sound creation, etc.
Other than that, they do have lots of "tech tips" on cool things you could do, which have given me lots of unique ideas for stuff to try on my own.
How you branch out, develop, and deviate from their "standard" is up to you. Anyways, that's the main resource I've used as a beginner - maybe it's not for you, but at least you know about it now.
Cheers,
Mark
P.S. if you're looking only for free resources - Sonic Academy is NOT for you - they do charge a quarterly subscription rate. Again - worth it for me, but maybe not for others. |
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