Music production in Durbuy

Bring your laptop, headphones and/or instrument. Finished or unfinished songs and ideas are welcome. Bring an external hard drive so you can go home with all your project files at the end of the week.

All meals and accommodation are included in the course price, but everyone organises their own travel. You will receive a practical e-mail from us a few weeks before departure.

Check out www.wisper.be/durbuy for more information!

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After you have registered for a vacation course, we first check whether your chosen accommodation (room type or campsite) is still available at the vacation location. If so, you will receive a final confirmation from us. If your chosen accommodation is no longer available, we will of course let you know as well.

We assign the beds in order of registration, so not based on gender. Would you like to share a room with a specific person or do we have to take something else into account and you haven't mentioned this when you registered? Make sure to let us know as soon as possible via the comments or via e-mail to charlotte@wisper.be

Level 3: this is a course for advanced musicians and/or producers. It's important that you have experience in at least one of the two areas as further explained below, but not necessarily in both. If you don't know anything about chords and scales, but you have found your style flowing through a DAW, great. If you don't know what a DAW is, but you write your own songs on the guitar, that works as well!

Prior knowledge on recording techniques is not required. This will be addressed during the course.

If you have any questions or hesitations about the list below, do not hesitate to send an e-mail to reindert@wisper.be!

1) Required knowledge and skills for instrument- and ensemble playing (FOR MUSICIANS ONLY):

You have adopted basic skills on your instrument and have a certain knowledge of chords and scales. You are experienced in playing together with other musicians, meaning you can spontaneously take on a musical role in a band and add something creative to a song, improvisation or composition.

2) Required knowledge and production skills (FOR PRODUCERS ONLY):

(!) During this course the teacher will work with Ableton Live. You are welcome to use another DAW, but keep in mind that you will have to translate some of the info and assignments yourself, for them to work in your DAW of choice.

- basic navigation through the DAW's interface: you know how to navigate through your DAW, are familiar with the different views and settings needed to record a track and set a balance between different tracks. You understand the words 'track', 'bus', 'send' en 'master'.

- audio- and MIDI recording: you know how to record audio and MIDI into your DAW, through creating clips and arming tracks for live recording.

- basic audio editing skills: you are familiar with basic editing functions in an arrangement, You know how to create, duplicate, move and cut audio, inside the clips as well as in a timeline view.

- basic MIDI-programming: you understand how to create and edit MIDI notes, as well as how to map useful effects for automation to a MIDI-controller.

- working with effects: you understand how to process audio and MIDI through digital effects (both as inserts and sends). Basic effects we will use a lot are equalizers, compressors, reverbs and delays. Any prior knowledge on how to use these will come in handy during the course, but is not required per se.