Anywhere to learn computer music programming?

[blueprintstudios]

before I forget to mention, yazoo, if you want people to teach, they can only guide you on the basics. from there it's where you carve your own path. what joshua said reminds me of someone whom I "guided" in cool edit and he got a little overline asking say
"can you tell me what do you do to your vocals?"
"compress/eq/reverb. the usual."
"yeah but can you give me the exact preset settings?"
"no?"
"selfish."
"i took 5 years to came up with it and you want it within 5 mins? who's selfish?"

but if you're asking like the normal cubase configurations and how to load the VSTs and all. i'm sure that's just harmless questions.

30¢ worth

[Cheez]

I'm sure blueprintstudio would love to share how he come up with his settings for post-production. Perhaps what he is saying is that there is no "preset". It's a lazy-man's belief that when a "preset" is loaded, all problems are over and you get the best ever production piece. But things like these come with experience and time.

Example: for midi sequencing. When people ask me to share my midi sequences, I would hesitate. In my midi sequences, you'll see how each controller works and the intricacies of sequencing - which takes me years of learning and hours of tweaking. I don't mind guiding them how to do it. If I'm to show my sequences, I would rather be there with that person to talk through it. And I wouldn't leave my sequences in that person's hard-drive. I can share my mp3, but I almost never share my sequences.

[yazoo]

thanks everyone. You all have answered my enquiries already.

[blueprintstudios]

actually I wouldn't go into details on how I came up with the settings during mixing for a few reasons.

1) I don't want people to tell me "hey that's the wrong method, it's not taught in sch, that's stupid" etc etc. my methods of recording and mixing were all almost self taught. and it works for my style of mixing, it works for people who listen to it so to each his own.

2) of course it took me ages and lots of trial and error to come up with these processing settings and all for them to become pretty much "tried and true". and yes no preset is fixed, for myself I roughly have a "vocal" customized preset, then I re-tweak them again according to the new vocalist's style of singing, the pitch range, male/female, genre etc. it's like your case of "asking for midi sequences".

i believe my case would be similar to joshua's or any recording mixing engineer here. we can guide you with a basic template on how your "weapon" works. but it's your very own character that will define what works best for you in your mix? ("close range/medium range/long range?")

50¢ worth

[skrillaz]

advises from the brothers (sisters?) here are well intended and hear worthy...cool

[gutturalpiss]

www.asksofyan.com

[MisterK]

Anyone who wants to learn Music Production, MIDI, Recording Techniques, Etc. Please feel free to contact me. I have a Degree in Music Production & Engineering from Berklee College of Music, and over 15 years experience in broadcasting and production. I am also a guitar & bass teacher. I have taught just about everything related to Music/ MIDI/ Audio/ Production/ Etc. both privately and professionally, and in schools. My software expertise is in ProTools and Digital Performer, but I am also familiar with (and have used most of) the others. They are all very similar and no problem for me to teach you as well.

I think you should be focused on learning the basic principles & techniques, the software's are just tools to help you achieve your goals. Once you understand the underlying basics, you should be able to use any of these related tools.

[blueprintstudios]

listen to the professional man. he's right.

[l0u5y]

wat i believe that it is better if u actually try it out urself. everyone has a different way of mixing, recording. music is subjective. u may like dis vocalist's voice, but i might not like it. same goes for how u mix the song. it will be tough at the start, like trying to use the compressor on the voice, twisting and turning the knobs for an hour and still cant seem to get the right settings. but once u achieve that, it is as easy as abc. what u learn in school might not apply for the genre and ur boss might not even like it. for a starter, u can check out www.tweakheadz.com to give u a rough idea of how to go about doing it.