Logic Pro Electro House Course

Learn how to make an Electro House track with pro producer Ben Medcalf. This four week course will show you how to program killer synth riffs, twisted basslines and dirty house beats in Logic Pro.  Plus essential arrangement tricks and mixing tips to ensure maximum dancefloor devastation. Award-winning producer better known as The Rogue Element demonstrates professional music production techniques and gives 1-2-1 video feedback on your tracks. Enrol now for the inside track on Electro House production.

Course Materials:

Weekly online masterclass with a pro producer

Over 50 Quicktime video tutorials

300 pages of notes

Song files and audio samples

24/7 access to student / tutor discussion forums

Course Breakdown

Week 1: Beats & Percussion

• The key elements in an Electro House tune
• Beats – chopping and editing samples
• Building drumkits in Ultrabeat
• Quantize functions - give groove to your beats
• Creating Groove Quantize templates
• Using Apple Loops
• Working with percussive textures

Week 2: The Musical Elements

• Synthesis intro: Envelopes, LFOs etc
• Bass – sound design using ES1/ES2
• Electro House basslines
• Sound creation with ES1/ES2. Creating Lead riffs
• Additional musical elements/synth sounds
• Sidechaining the Bass/Leads

Week 3: Creative FX

• Glitch FX
• Creative use of Delays
• How and when to use Reverb
• Creating sound FX using noise and synth oscillators
• Working with vocals – FX Treatments

Week 4 – Final Touches, Arrangement and Mixdown

• Structure – building the track arrangement
• Buildup & Breakdowns
• 'Fairy Dust' – adding the finishing touches
• The Mixdown, Compression, EQ,
• Bouncing the Final Track

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