What genre do you want 'How To Make' courses on?

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Hi Chris,

I’d really like more Drum n Bass, there are only a few for this genre in your library.

I’m specifically thinking the more euphoric dancefloor DnB you hear from Metrik, Sub Focus, Dimension, Wilkinson to name a few.

Thanks!

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Hi all,

Very interesting to see what everyone here likes most.
Personally, I am a big fan of melodic deep house and techno, like the stuff on the Steyoyoke and Inner Symphony imprints:

A tutorial by any of the producers there would be great, but just to name a few favourites:
Soul Button
Clawz SG
Rustboy
Nick Devon

Furthermore anything about chill, atmospheric, cinematic music would be more than welcome.

Oh … and sound design. A deep dive course that is completely focussed on bass sounds for instance.

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Hi, I would really like to see A LOT more synth programming & sound design videos. That could be I) a multi-part course that really covers the ground of beginner to advanced techniques II) a multip-part course that really covers programming “bread and butter” synth sounds across sound types (bass, leads, plucks, risers, fx, etc.) III) courses based on authors sharing their favorite or most used synth programming / sound design tips.

I imagine Sonic Academy could get some great instructors to participate in this – off hand I would love to see tutorials by Howard Scarr (of U-He), Sami Rabia (Aiyn Zahev), Arksun, Manuel Schleis (Vengeance Sound), Richard Devine, or other top shelf sound designers.

Honestly, Sonic Academy has enough “how to make XXX genre” music videos for me to chew on for a while. But more sound design / synth programming videos like described above, that would be real exciting and useful.

Thanks!

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Love your work guys.

I’ve loved Enamour’s recent courses… more from producers in his vein from the Anjuna / Zero 3 / Colorize style would be absolutely fantastic, ideally using Ableton! I would also love to see styles like Grum’s sound, his stuff is so amazingly produced.

Thanks!!

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More Trance, I notice there is no “sounds like” Above and Beyond. Maybe ilan bluestone track build rather than interview. Tinlicker, Andrew Bayer, maglev.

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Some new Trance Tutorials in Logic X in the Style of Gouryella or Giuseppe Ottaviani would be nice.

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Would love a progressive house - Logic pro x

Kind of Cristoph oder Prydastyle.

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Hello Phil! i i would really like as student of SA a course about recording and mastering trance vocals with effects and all that stuff about! ,this would be wonderful!! thank you for asking !! DJ Riccardo String

ps. Cubase DAW would be fantastic! :slight_smile:

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Hi Phil,

I had two wishes, and they both combine into one suggestion - and I don’t think anyone else is doing this.

The things I struggle with most in my production:
Arrangement
Mixing

The things that I benefit from most in my learning: seeing how different producers approach things, in an ‘elements’ series.

What I’d love to see, for both arrangement and mixing, is different producers tackle the same piece, each with a time limit.

Arrangement:
A few of your top roster of producers are given an 8 bar loop with various stems - at the point where many producers struggle to turn into a full track.
They each get 90 minutes - 2 hours to flesh out the arrangement in the way they normally would. They can add new tracks.
If you did, say, an uplifting trance one, I’d love to see how the different producers approached turning an 8 bar loop into a full arrangement.
Same for a tech house one, with different producers.
I’m not talking about doing a remix. The basic ideas should be there already.

Mixing:
Same principle: provide the producers with the stems. They shouldn’t be nearly finished and ready for final showing off and polish. There should be problems, masked frequencies - the kinds of issues producers actually face.
They then get 90 minutes - 2 hours to mix the track.
It would be really great learning to see how producers take a normal track - one with issues - and handle it differently but all getting to a place they are happy with by the end.

I hope this helps Phil, and do let me know what you think about the idea!

Best wishes,

Toby.

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Hey Chris,

Having moved to Bitwig from Live and a fan of Dom Kane. I really liked Dom’s tutorials. In all fairness I’m looking for more Bitwig content, workflows, template ideas etc. Not just the usual modulator type stuff we often find. Something like Baphometrix’s deep dives on YouTube.

I appreciate it’s not the most popular DAW for electronic music… yet.

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Hi phil,

one thing that i would like to see is, how can an impended producer handle publishing and all that. whats with rights and those kind of organizations. whats worth for us doing and not… i know its different from country to country but will get a better idea on those topics i think.

thanks

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Most of all I’ll be happy of any course with Phil & Chris together in the studio, like “Get that sound…” or “How to make…” or “Fast track build…” chapters back in the days :slight_smile: This is what really sold Sonic Academy subscription to me.

As of genres, I’d prefer some kind of hi-tech uplifting trance like Sean Tyas and colleagues (Metta & Glyde, Darren Porter) sound nowadays, I think, it’s little slower uplifting with very much of psy and other effects and evolving complex sounds. And I would like traditional uplifting trance, too. This is what interesting for me most of all, so would be interesting in-depth walkthrough of something like that.

As of DAWs, I’d prefer Bitwig (my main one) or Ableton, but with any DAW it would be interesting anyway.

Thanks for this topic, guys! Looking forward to some new stuff from your studio!

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Yep + 1 for “In House” tuts from S.A team, especially now that Phil has got the new studio up & running, would be very nice and might be interesting topics to cover including studio gears, like mixing a track with Softube Console 1.

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I would like techno and tech house courses. And it would be amazing if you could win Martin Stimming doing a tutorial.

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hi there

thanks for amazing site , love the trance courses in cubase by protoculture and akkeson ,i would really love techno courses in cubase especially drumcode label . there are a lot in ableton which i have found more difficult ,i both daws ableton and cubase but i much prefer cubase for production ,

so please please keep up the trance and more techno by drum code if possible in cubase
cheers leo

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I would love to learn a bit more UK Drill. My DAW is FL Studio, but I think a concept from any DAW will help or Machine.
Thank You

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MODD - DEEP HOUSE
James Lavelle (UNKLE ) - Breakbeats

Really want to learn How to make from them please!!!

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Industrial Techno / EBM - in particular along the lines of Empirion. And preferably done in Ableton using ANA. Thanks

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Hi!
Melodic and Deep Progressive, Melodic Techno like in the style of Sasha, Monolink, Artbat, Colyn.
DAW - Studio One or Ableton.
Thank You!

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Harrison Mixbus 32c would be awesome for sure, though I know it’s not everyone’s DAW. Dom Kane scratched the surface of it in one of it’s course, using it for stems mixing but there’s a lot more to dive in with this one.