CTC Knowledge Base

By Michael MacDonald These 4 plug-ins are: Renaissance Equalizer, the REQ 6 Stereo Renaissance Compressor, RCompressor Stereo S1 Stereo Imager API-550 Stereo EQ VST Choir used in Project: Omnisphere 2 Choir Sample Side Note; Why I Use Waves Products Waves, as a company, has been in the music industry for a long time now, always creating and…

Welcome to the Creative Technology Center's just launched knowledge base!   We wanted to create a resource where student's could find many of the frequently asked questions we ran into on a day-to-day basis at the CTC, as well as share some of our favorite tips and tricks in a variety of audio, notation, video editing, game audio and post-production…

Visits to the CTC may be made as a walk-in or booked in advance via our website.  We are located in the Library at 150 Mass Ave. View our available software and usage policies prior to booking. Please bring your own laptop power adapter. Unfortunately, no printing is available. Workstations Hardware and software specs can be found on the…

The concept of bouncing seems to be one of the most misunderstood and confusing terms for beginners in music production. It seems like every DAW calls this something else, and every DAW has a different way of doing it. Below I have included some frequently asked questions regarding the topic: What the heck is bouncing? How is bouncing different than…

Ableton Live is known for its powerhouse live performance functionality (hence the name “Live”), and provides an array of options for controlling projects without ever touching the mouse. Nowadays, many MIDI controllers come with preset mapping/control scripts that automatically map parameters in popular DAWs to different MIDI CC controls on a given…

Introduction Logic’s Auto Sampler is an incredible device that has been around for a really long time! It just recently got an interface update with Logic 10.5 and it provides a super cool way to capture hardware synth patches or save software instrument stacks with effects into one sampled instrument! Auto Sampler basically takes an audio signal and uses…

by Eric Levine In the Creative Technology Center, the iMac stations are equipped with Komplete Kontrol MIDI keyboards. These are versatile and configurable to many different types of software instrument controls. Here is how you can set them up with the provided sustain pedal.  First, open the application "Komplete Kontrol" Next, click the 5 pin…

by Blair Pershyn In this class video, we look at synchronizing film and audio in Logic as well as working with markers and tempo.     *Towards the end of the class, there were some technical issues with calculating a tempo curve. Below is a follow up video going over that topic more clearly.    

Written by Althea Steynberg, Edited & Submitted by Michael MacDonald  A Step by Step Guide  For Film Scoring students at Berklee using Cubase in their work and major, we purchase the FIlm Scoring Bundle as part of our Major Package Bundle! How exciting! Within this FS (Film Scoring) Major Bundle, we purchased a library of instruments known…

As someone who does an immense amount of live looping performances, loves producing with tactile controllers and has been obsessed with her iPad Pro since the day she bought it, I am shocked by the fact that it took me this long to start using the Logic Remote. Let me tell you, this is LIFE CHANGING. Logic Remote is an iOS app that works as a…

The topic of "track types" may come across as one which doesn’t require much explanation. Yet, this seemingly simple topic can actually become quite deep! Today I thought I would provide a little introduction to the types of tracks in Pro Tools and some of their main purposes.  Pro Tools, like many DAWs, is all about routing. It’s about recording,…

by Shirly Gurten In this introductory video, we'll provide a rundown on the various views in Ableton, how to select sounds, enter MIDI information and quantize.   Sign-up for a Peer Training today if you’d like to learn more about these and other topics at library.berklee.edu/training