Songwriting Using Digital Audio Workstations

Catalog description

This class is designed specifically for songwriters and aspiring songwriters, musicians, beat makers, sample manipulators and scratch artists using digital audio workstations (DAWs) as composition tools. This course also introduces basic concepts of lyric writing, audio engineering, mixing, and signal flow. The primary goal of the course is to explore the DAW platform as a tool in the songwriting process. Students will explore recording, editing, compression, equalization, and the use of virtual instruments. No specific prior mathematics, engineering, or computer training are required. Students will be required to use Macintosh computers in the DAW lab for some of the assignments.